Transocean to Buy GlobalSantaFe
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Transocean said the deal would create a $53 billion company with a presence in ultra-deepwater and deepwater drilling and additional growth from new rigs.
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--UK power and gas system operator National Grid Transco PLC (NGT.LN) Tuesday said it will return GBP2 billion, or 65 pence a share, to its shareholders after selling four
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Private equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for $677 million only a few months after the oil tanker operator fended off a hostile bid from its rival OMI Corp.
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3Com Corp. COMS.O on Monday said it  will buy network security firm TippingPoint Technologies Inc.  TPTI.O for about $430 million, as 3Com expands its  telecommunications equipment offerings to compete better in the  market for large corporate users.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group.
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Britain's BAE Systems said it had agreed to buy DigitalNet Holdings Inc, a provider of computer networks for the US government, for 600 million dollars (489 million euros) in cash.
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LONDON/MUMBAI  - Brazilian steelmaker CSN  has agreed to buy Anglo-Dutch rival Corus Group  for 4.9 billion pounds ($9.6 billion) in cash, trumping an offer agreed only hours earlier with India's Tata Steel .
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MOSCOW Gazprom, the leading Russian gas company, said Tuesday that it would buy one of the country&#39;s largest oil producers, a move that forms a state-controlled energy juggernaut and signals the first step toward ending a ban on foreign ownership of
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U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co.  has agreed to buy British maker of oilfield services equipment Sondex Plc  for 288.7 million pounds ($583.1 million) in cash, the two companies said on Monday.
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The Manulife Financial Corporation, a Canadian life insurance company, said it would buy the Berkshire-TWC Financial Groupâs mutual fund and securities dealerships to bolster its Canadian wealth management business. Manulife said the deal would double its number of Canadian wealth management advisers and triple its assets under administration in that business. The deal is part of a plan by Manulife of Toronto to expand its mutual funds unit. The takeover creates a sales force of 1,500 independent advisers and a business with about 19 billion Canadian dollars ($17.7 billion) in assets under administration. The price was not disclosed.
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State-owned Dubai Ports World said on  Monday it had agreed to sell its U.S. port operations to an  American International Group  unit after relinquishing  control of them to allay concerns about U.S. national security.
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Private equity firm Fortress  Investment Group LLC agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for  $677 million only a few months after the oil tanker operator  fended off a hostile bid from its rival OMI Corp. OMM.N,  Stelmar said on Monday.
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Cable mogul John Malone moved to  consolidate his holdings on Tuesday, announcing that Liberty  Media International agreed to buy the rest of cable provider  UnitedGlobalCom Inc. for about $3.5 billion.
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Public sector behemoth Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd on Monday said it has acquired an offshore oil field in Western Australia.
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French energy services group Compagnie   Generale de Geophysique (CGG) GEPH.PA is to buy Texas-based   Veritas DGC Inc. in a $3.1 billion deal that will make it the   world's biggest listed provider of seismic surveys.
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Admiral Acquisitions, the Goldman   Sachs-led consortium which is buying Associated British Ports   (AB ports) for 2.8 billion pounds, has launched syndication of   the loan financing backing the buyout, banking sources close to   the deal said on Monday.
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French geological services group CGG has said that it would buy US-based rival Veritas DGC for 3.1 billion dollars (2.4 billion euros) to create a world leader in the booming oil and gas services sector.