Henkel Buys U.S. Adhesives Firm Sovereign
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German consumer products group Henkel said Thursday it is buying Sovereign Specialty Chemicals Inc., a Chicago-based adhesives company, in a deal valued at some $575 million.
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Oslo/Stockholm - Norwegian financial services group Storebrand said Monday it has inked a deal to buy life insurance and pensions provider SPP from Swedish banking group Handelsbanken. via Earth Times
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Private equity firm Fortress  Investment Group LLC has agreed to buy oil tank operator  Stelmar Shipping Ltd. SJH.N for $677 million, Stelmar said on  Monday.
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A Canadian steel maker, Ipsco, said it was buying the NS Group, a maker of steel pipes and tubes used in oil fields, for about $1.46 billion. The deal will be used to broaden IpscoÂs sales to the energy industry, the chief executive, David Sutherland, said. ÂThis is a transaction thatÂs all about growth, and if anything, what we will see over the next three years is a growth in the output of all of their facilities, as well as the continuing demand on our own,Â Mr. Sutherland said in a conference call. Ipsco agreed to pay $66 a share for the NS Group, which was a 43 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. After the transaction is complete, the new company is expected to have combined annual revenue of more than $4 billion. Ipsco, which is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has executive offices in Leslie, Ill., operates three steel mills and six pipe mills in the United States and Canada. The NS Group is based in Newport, Ky.
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Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds.
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By Rachel Melcer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Feb. 13--Sigma-Aldrich Corp. said Monday that it paid $60 million in cash  to buy Epichem Group Ltd., a British company that makes chemicals for the  semiconductor and solar panel industries.
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- Aircraft and auto parts maker Sequa Corp.  said it agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Carlyle Group  in a cash deal valued at $2.7 billion.
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TXU Corp.  said it agreed to be acquired  by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $45  billion including debt.
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Henkel, the German soaps and adhesives group, has shed its 29 percent stake in Clorox, raising &#36;2.84 billion to pay for its purchase of U.S. detergents and cosmetics maker Dial Corp.
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Clorox Co. agreed on Wednesday to  buy back a 29 percent stake in itself from Germany's Henkel  KGaA for $2.84 billion of cash and assets, helping Persil-maker  Henkel finance its acquisition of Dial Corp.
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Henkel, the German maker of Persil laundry detergent, plans a major expansion drive in North America and Asia, its chairman said.
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The knee and ankle brace maker said it agreed to be bought by the medical device maker ReAble Therapeutics for about $1.6 billion including debt.
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British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has said that it had agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds (339 million euros, 451 million dollars) in cash.
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Akzo Nobel is selling Crown Paints as one of the conditions for its acquisition of ICI, which owns Dulux.
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NEW YORK, and BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deutsche Bank and Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM) announced today that they have signed a definitive asset purchase agreement whereby Legg Mason will acquire
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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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Germany's fifth-largest bank, WestLB, said Sunday it is selling its majority stake in steel distributor Kloeckner &amp; Co. AG to a U.S. investment firm as part of efforts to unload noncore assets.