KKR and Permira to buy ProSiebenSAT1
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Private equity groups Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Permira said they would buy a majority stake in German commercial television group ProSiebenSAT1 in a deal worth around three billion euros (four billion dollars).
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A bid by US investment group KKR and the deputy chairman of Alliance Boots, Europe's biggest pharmacy chain, to takeover the group is far from set in stone, a business daily reported on Monday.
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US consumer healthcare company Perrigo is to buy Israeli drug-maker Agis for $818m (Â£441.5m) in cash and stock. The deal will create a firm with annual sales of $1.
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German industrial conglomerate MAN AG   will offer cash and shares to buy Scania AB (SCVb.ST)  in a bid that values the Swedish truckmaker at 9.6 billion  euros ($12.2 billion) in total, MAN said early on Monday.
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ProSiebenSAT1, the German commercial television group, is to cut jobs as part of its 3.3-billion-euro (4.6-billion-dollar) deal to buy rival SBS Broadcasting, chief executive Guillaume de Posch revealed on Tuesday.
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Air France-Klm e compagnia bandiera perdono in borsa
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Collins Stewart Tullett yesterday clinched a deal to buy rival money broker Prebon that will take the company&#39;s market share close to leader Icap.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. appears willing to make a concession to the banks financing its $26 billion leveraged buyout of payment processor First Data Corp , according to a report on Sunday, in a move that underscores the intense pressure the credit crunch has put on investment banks and their top private equity clients.
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Global private equity firm  Permira , said it had won the race to buy agrichemical  company Arysta LifeScience Corp for about 250 billion yen ($2.2  billion) enterprise value, marking its first deal in Japan.
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German real estate financier Hypo Real Estate (HRE) is to acquire German-Irish bank Depfa Bank in an offer worth 5.7 billion euros (7.9 billion dollars), the two banks said on Monday.
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Sky Financial Group Inc. SKYF.O on  Wednesday said it agreed to buy Belmont Bancorp BLMT.O in a  cash and stock deal worth about $69.2 million.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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BMC Software is buying privately held ProactiveNet as a way to flesh out the analytics portion of its BSM (business service management) software.
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An unusual alliance of US and European private equity firms has won the auction to buy Bermuda-based satellite business Intelsat. Europeans Apax and Permira and US firms Apollo Management and Madison Dearborn will pay $3bn for the business and assume $2bn ...
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French airline Air France-KLM is preparing a takeover offer for Spanish peer Iberia with several Spanish partners who will take a majority stake in the group, a Spanish newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 and  Sony Pictures have agreed a German distribution deal for  ProSieben's new video-on-demand offer, the television group  said on Monday.
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Perrigo Co., a generic drugmaker, has agreed to buy Israel&#39;s Agis Industries Ltd. in a deal valued at $818 million, the two companies said Monday.