New $8.8B tender offer requires removal of poison pill
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - Oracle Corp. on Monday raised its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft to $8.8 billion, calling the bid its &quot;best and final offer,&quot; as CEO Larry Ellison raised the stakes in a 17-month takeover
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Qantas Airways said Thursday it had accepted an $8.64 billion takeover offer from a private equity consortium including Australia's Macquarie Bank and the Texas Pacific Group _ one of the biggest corporate buyouts in Australian history.
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Payment to resolve allegations pharmaceutical firm overcharged government for top drugs.
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Australia's Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd.  made a revised takeover offer for U.S. utility NorthWestern Energy Corp.  after a regulator blocked its initial US$2.2 billion bid on concerns the deal was not in the interests of customers.
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A federal judge agreed with a Tampa executive's claim that the antidepressant Paxil prompted him to embezzle $1.8 million from a former employer.
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Qwest Communications International  Inc. Q.N on Wednesday released details of its spurned bid for  MCI Inc., MCIP.O, saying its offer had a total value of $8  billion, or $1.25 billion more than the winning bid by Verizon  Communications Inc. VZ.N
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Business & money: Â· Buyout firms blamed for collapse of schemesÂ· Labour donor linked to Â£81m of deficits
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One of Northern Ireland's largest engineering consultancies has been taken over by a rival company from the Republic in an 8.4m deal, it was announced today.
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Drug and nutritional products maker Perrigo Co. is buying pharmaceutical company Agis Industries Ltd. for about $818 million as part of its effort to expand into the generic prescription drug market.
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Genzyme has agreed to pay at least $325 million to win the hotly contested rights to a potentially powerful cholesterol-lowering drug.
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Oracle Corp., bidding $8.8 billion for PeopleSoft Inc., will drop a court battle to strike down PeopleSoft&#39;s takeover defenses unless 50 percent of shares are tendered by Nov. 19.
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HARMONY Gold Miningâs $8.1 billion (Â£4.5 billion) hostile takeover offer for Gold Fields took an acrimonious turn last night when the much-larger target company appealed against a regulatory
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Tracinda Corp., the investment firm controlled by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, on Wednesday said it plans a tender offer for $825 million of stock of MGM Mirage Inc. , which would raise his stake in the hotel and casino company to as much as 61.7 percent.
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The company has earned its nosebleed valuation.
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The contract will be initially valued at $80 million instead of the $2 billion estimate given for the six-year deal, officials said.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In a move designed to fortify itself a potential hostile takeovers, News Corp. adopted a &quot;poison pill&quot; shareholder rights plan.
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The proposed sale of Greater Southeast Community Hospital could cost the District government up to $87 million in public money, roughly $60 million more than initially thought, according to an initial review by aides to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D).