Aug 27, 2013 | News, North America
Reuters 25 Aug 2013 Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) struck a deal to buy cancer drug maker Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc (ONXX.O) for about $10.4 billion on Sunday, as it moves to restock its product pipeline in response to declining sales of its flagship anemia drugs. The acquisition...
Aug 27, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News Leading Russian payment company Qiwi, which launched an in-house venture activity in early 2013, announced earlier this month its first investment. The group invested in Carbay.ru, a web and mobile service created in May of this year to help...
Aug 27, 2013 | Africa, Latin America, News, Western Europe
Africa AM Magazine 22 August 2013 Financial services provider La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild (CBR), forest company ONF International and the Moringa Partnership have announced a first close over €50m ($66.8m) of the Moringa Fund. The private equity investment...
Aug 27, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Emerging Markets Private Equity Association 15 August 2013 Horizon Capital, a private equity fund manager that focuses on investments in mid-cap companies in the CEE and CIS region, has invested US$2.7 million in Moldova-based winemaker Bostavan Wineries Group. The...
Aug 26, 2013 | Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
The Moscow Times OSLO — Statoil, one of the most successful oil explorers in recent years, sees offshore Angolan and Russian shale as the industry’s next big plays and considers U.S. shale oil overhyped, its exploration chief Tim Dodson said. The firm, which has...
Aug 26, 2013 | Africa, India, News, North America, South & Central Asia
The Wall Street Journal 25 Aug 2013 Anadarko Petroleum Corp. APC +0.60% said Sunday that it has agreed to sell a stake in a natural-gas field off the coast of Mozambique to a subsidiary of India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. 500312.BY -1.71% for $2.64 billion....
