Suez to propose share swap to save deal with GDF
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French energy group Suez is considering proposing a share swap deal to GDF to keep faltering merger plans on track.
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French energy group GDF disagrees with all of the complaints raised by the EU anti-trust regulator about its proposed merger with fellow French group Suez, GDF trade union representives told AFP.
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Business & money: Â£60bn merger of Suez and Gaz de France creates world's third-largest listed power company.
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Pan-European bourse operator Euronext   ENXT.PA said it would ask shareholders to vote in December on   its merger plan with NYSE Group NYX.N as it posted a surge in   quarterly profits, albeit below analysts' forecasts.
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Gaz de France and Suez on Monday cleared the way to create the world's third-largest electricity and gas company after their boards approved the revised terms of a politically charged merger.
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Barclays has drawn up contingency plans to restructure its all-share offer for Dutch rival ABN Amro with a significant cash sweetener, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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French lawmakers have approved an energy bill that paves the way for the privatisation of the state-owned gas group GDF and its merger with the French company Suez.
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Deutsche Boerse, the operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, is close to signing a cooperation agreement with Chinese investment firm Shenzhen Capital Group, the head of Shenzhen has said in a newspaper interview.
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An investment group is expected to announce Monday that it has struck a deal to buy British water utility AWG PLC  for about $4.12 billion (2.2 billion pounds, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Sunday.
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The French government expects to reach a decision on the merger of state-controlled Gaz de France with private energy group Suez by the end of September, the government spokesman said Wednesday.
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The European Commission plans to announce a formal proposal settling the long-running Coca-Cola antitrust case later on Tuesday, a source close to the situation said.
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Pan-European stock exchange operator Euronext  said on Thursday it would ask shareholders to approve its planned merger with NYSE Group , parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, at an extraordinary meeting on December 19.
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Euronext  on Tuesday will  attempt to build shareholder support for an 8 billion euro  (&#36;10.23 billion) offer from New York Stock Exchange owners NYSE  Group Inc. , which the pan-European exchange said it  preferred to a rival proposal from Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE).
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French gas utility Gaz de France has been ordered by a Paris appeals court to hold a board meeting Friday on objections posed by the EU Commission to its proposed merger with Suez, after labor unions challenged the group's claim that a meeting was not immediately necessary.
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Air France-KLM reveals that its offer for the Italian airline Alitalia is to be structured as a share swap.
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The French government could be about to unveil a mooted merger of state-owned Gaz de France and private utility group Suez, the newspaper Le Figaro said Wednesday in a report denied by the country&#39;s economy minister.
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NYSE Euronext   is looking into trading of ABN AMRO Holding NV  securities that took place around the time of the bank's March announcement of talks to be sold to Barclays PLC , The Wall Street Journal reported.