Piper Rudnick to Merge With Big British Firm
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Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP, a law firm with major operations in Washington, agreed over the weekend to merge with British firm DLA LLP, creating one of the largest combinations ever of law firms from different countries.
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Two of Britain's biggest unions agree to start merger discussions in a move that could create a 2.5m 'super union'.
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Scottish & Newcastle, Britainâs largest brewer, agreed to a Â£7.8 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover by the European rivals Carlsberg and Heineken.
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Nationwide, the nation's biggest mutually-owned bank, is to merge with smaller bank Portman, to create a new financial services group with more than 150 billion pounds in assets, the two groups have announced in a statement.
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Capital Radio and GWR agree the terms of an merger which will bring together Capital FM and Classic FM in an all-share deal.
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Privately-owned Dutch steelmaker LNM Group said Monday it plans to merge its two main divisions, Ispat International NV and LNM Holdings NV, and then take over U.S.-based International Steel Group Inc. in a deal that would make it one of the largest steel companies in the world.
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PITTSBURGH (CP) - Nova Chemicals Corp., which moved its head office from Calgary to Pittsburgh about three years ago, plans to merge its European styrenic polymers business into a joint venture with Britain's BP plc.
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NEW YORK The National Broadband Company, NBC Universal&#39;s Web syndication service (NBBC), will merge into the unnamed NBCU/News Corp. joint online video venture.
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Two of the UK's largest life insurers, Friends Provident and Resolution, agree to merge in a deal worth Â£8bn.
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David Richards has stood down as boss of Formul One team BAR after a change of ownership. Honda and founders British American Tobacco plan to form a joint venture company, replacing
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The United Steelworkers of America and  the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers  International Union on Tuesday said they would merge, creating  the largest industrial labor union in North America.
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The UK&#39;s biggest brewer, Scottish &amp; Newcastle, is joining forces with India&#39;s United Breweries to form a group that will have more than 50 percent of the Indian beer market.
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TWO of the greatest names in the British china industry look set to merge after Waterford Wedgwood said it is in talks to take over Royal Doulton, the ailing Stokeon-Trent porcelain maker.
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Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell Group said it was merging its Dutch and British holding companies as it seeks to address failings that led to a shock downgrade in proven oil reserves.
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Wall Street's two main private  regulatory arms said on Tuesday they have agreed to merge in a  widely anticipated move aimed at reducing industry costs and  streamlining oversight functions.
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German engineering conglomerate Linde, which has merged with British industrial gas group BOC to become world's biggest industrial gas maker, said that the new combined entity would be headquartered in Munich.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - Oil major Royal Dutch/Shell  Group said it was merging its Dutch and British holding  companies as it seeks to address failings that led to a shock  downgrade in proven oil reserves.