May 24, 2013 | Asia, East Asia, News, Western Europe
Reuters 22 May 2013 Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd has paid $500 million for a stake of around 10 percent stake in financial data provider Markit Group, a person familiar with the transaction said. Markit said in a statement late Tuesday that the...
May 23, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Financial Times 20 May 2013 Actavis sought to fend off takeover threats by purchasing Dublin-based rival Warner Chilcott in a $5bn deal designed to turn it into the world’s third-largest generic drug company by sales. The agreed all-stock deal, worth $8.5bn including...
May 23, 2013 | News, Western Europe
PharmaIntellect 16 May 2013 Bayer signed an agreement Thursday to acquire 100% of the shares of Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, a privately held pharmaceutical company specializing in pharmacy-only herbal medicines. Steigerwald generated sales...
May 14, 2013 | France, News, Western Europe
PARIS, May 13 (Reuters) – Activist investor Guy Wyser-Pratte said he is seeking board seats at French phone directories company PagesJaunes to force its biggest shareholder – U.S. private equity firm Cerberus – to cut the group’s debt....
May 8, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
Digital Sky Technologies (DST Global), the global investment fund led by Yuri Milner, appears to be a major investor in German startup incubator Rocket Internet. According to the incubator’s slide deck, found by The Manager magazine, DST has already pumped $315...
May 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, South & Central Asia, Western Europe
Moscow Times 7 May 2013 Russian billionaire senator Suleiman Kerimov has purchased a 3.05 percent stake in embattled UK-based natural resources firm Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC, the company said. According to a regulatory filing, on April 30 Kerimov...
