Update 3: LNM to Buy ISG for $4.5B in Cash, Stock
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A privately-owned Dutch steelmaker headed by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying US-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4.
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Ispat International NV (IST.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (ISPA.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it would buy LNM Holdings NV and then will purchase International Steel Group Inc.
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Sale of Marmon Holdings to Berkshire raises $4.5B now, more later.
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The Motley Fool - Leverage buyouts (LBOs) -- in which management borrows large amounts of money to buy a company and take it private -- have traditionally been for brick-and-mortar companies. But with billions flowing into private equity firms, they're are now targeting software companies as well. The latest: the $1.3 billion LBO of enterprise software developer Intergraph (Nasdaq: INGR - News). However, given the deal's valuation, there may be more bidders coming to the table.
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The company, battered by the subprime crisis, said it would sell a $5 billion stake to a Chinese investment.
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Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source for home mortgage financing, said Wednesday that is is considering two placements of up to $4 billion in preferred stock to qualified institutional buyers.
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Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is negotiating to buy GLG Partners, a leading British hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest US home funding company, said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell $5 billion worth of non-cumulative preferred stock in two placements to qualified institutional buyers
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Netherlands-based steelmaker Ispat International NV said Monday that it agreed to acquire LNM Holdings NV and International Steel Group Inc.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Big M&amp;A deals kicked off the shortened week as a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland launched a $96 bil bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro  , and Archstone-Smith  , a REIT, agreed to a $22.2 bil buyout by 2 equity groups. RBS&#39; offer for ABN topped Barclays  &#39; earlier $86.6 bil bid, but analysts said ABN&#39;s previous decision to sell LaSalle to Bank of America   clouded the deal.
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IBM moved back into the iSCSI (Internet SCSI) market Friday with a new array priced at US$3,000 and aimed at the small and midsize business market.
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The $3.7 billion deal will form the Nasdaq OMX Group which will list more than 4,000 companies with a combined market value of $5.5 trillion.
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BlackRock Inc. BLK.N, one of the  largest U.S. fixed income managers, on Thursday said it will  buy its far smaller competitor State Street Research &  Management Co., marking the biggest takeover in the asset  management business this year.
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State Street Corp.  said on Monday it would acquire Investors Financial Services Corp.  for $4.5 billion in stock in a bid to service a bigger chunk of mutual and hedge fund assets.
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A Dutch steelmaker led by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying U.S.-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4.5 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would make it one of the largest steel companies in the world.
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Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said its asset management arm agreed to buy Cigna Corp.&#39;s (CI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) TimesSquare Capital Management Inc.
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Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. home  funding company, said on Wednesday it may privately sell up to  $4 billion of preferred stock this week, which could help it  meet higher capitalization standards it faces after regulators  found it broke accounting rules.