Permira to buy Japan's Arysta for $2.2 billion
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TOKYO/PHILADELPHIA  - 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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Independent power producer Dynegy Inc.   DYN.N said on Friday it agreed to pay over $2 billion in   stock and cash for the merchant power plant portfolio of   private equity fund LS Power Group, which will have a 40   percent stake in the combined company.
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US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has offered to buy stakes in Japan's biggest consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp. for more than 300 billion yen (2.8 billion dollars), a report said.
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AMSTERDAM Shares in Ahold, the Dutch retailer, gained more than 3 percent on Monday after it agreed to sell its Spanish assets to Permira Advisers, a venture capital group based in London, for E685 million.
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Angang New Steel Co., the Hong Kong- traded arm of China&#39;s second-largest steelmaker, agreed to buy assets from its parent for 18 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) as metals demand rises in the world&#39;s fastest-growing major economy.
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Elpida Memory Inc., Japan&#39;s largest manufacturer of memory chips, plans to raise as much as 102 billion yen ($954 million) in an initial public offering to help finance the construction of a new plant.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. said on Friday it would buy Britain's Gallaher Group Plc for $14.7 billion in the biggest-ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company.
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Canadian aluminum giant Alcan Inc. has signed an agreement to buy gas from Australia&#39;s Woodside Petroleum for a planned 2 billion Australian dollar (US$1.
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.5 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. has agreed to acquire Britain's Gallaher Group PLC for $18.79 billion (2.2 trillion yen) in the largest-ever corporate acquisition by a Japanese company, a business daily reported Friday.
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Shinsei Bank Ltd., Japan&#39;s eighth- largest bank by market value, agreed to acquire two-thirds of Japanese consumer finance company Aplus Co.
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Casino operator Penn National Gaming Inc. is buying Argosy Gaming Co. in a stock purchase deal worth about $2.2 billion, including about $805 million in long-term debt, the companies said Wednesday.
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Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. said that it intends to buy Perfigo Inc. for $74 million in cash, boosting the company's efforts to secure network "endpoints" and protect them from worms, viruses and hacking.
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Barratt Developments has confirmed that it has agreed to buy rival housebuilder Wilson Bowden for about 2.2 billion pounds.
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GrowHow, the plant nutrient division of Finnish chemicals group Kemira, has signed an agreement to buy Transcenter Kft, a Hungarian fertiliser factory.
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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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Kazakhstan's state-owned energy company, KazMunaiGaz, buys Romanian oil firm Rompetrol for $2.7bn.