Jun 26, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Bloomberg 25 June 2013 Vodafone Group Plc agreed to buy Kabel Deutschland Holding AG after increasing its bid for Germany’s largest cable company to 7.7 billion euros ($10.1 billion) in the second-biggest takeover of a telecommunications network in Europe this year....
Jun 25, 2013 | France, News, Western Europe
London (Reuters) – London-based investment firm Platina Partners said it had sold all the assets in its 2005 wind energy fund and closed it after securing a gross internal rate of return of more than 40 percent. Platina, with around 500 million euros ($670...
Jun 25, 2013 | Africa, France, Latin America, News, Western Europe
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) – AXA Private Equity sells its stake in Outremer Telecom to Altice Another link (French):
Jun 20, 2013 | News, Western Europe
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 (Reuters) – A year after Facebook Inc’s fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow to recognize what Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg argues has been an across-the-board improvement in its business. Facebook’s ability to...
Jun 20, 2013 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) – Engineering turnaround specialist Melrose Industries Plc said it would sell its Marelli Motori business, which makes electrical motors and generators, to private equity company Carlyle Group in a deal worth about 181 million pounds...
Jun 18, 2013 | News, South & Central Asia, Western Europe
(Reuters) – Azeri state energy company SOCAR said it has started talks with the Greek government on purchasing the country’s natural gas grid operator DESFA, after being the only bidder in a failed tender for the asset sale. “The tender procedure on...