KKR Agrees to Acquire Masonite for C$3.1 Billion
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Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts &amp; Co., the world&#39;s biggest buyout firm, agreed to buy Canadian building- products maker Masonite International Corp.
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UK BUILDING materials firm and world market leader RMC has agreed to a Â£2.3 billion takeover bid from the worldâs third largest concrete-maker, Cemex of Mexico.
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Standard Chartered is to expand its foothold in Asia with a deal to buy Korea First Bank for 3.3 billion dollars (2.5 billion euros) in cash, reportedly outbidding rival HSBC.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit agreed to buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion) on Thursday, the nation's third-largest property trust takeover.
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Macerich Co. MAC.N on Thursday said  it would buy Wilmorite Properties Inc. and Wilmorite Holdings  L.P. for $1.45 billion in a deal that expands its portfolio of  shopping malls.
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Teck Cominco, a mining company and metals producer, has agreed to buy Aur Resources for 4.1 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash and stock.
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French oilfield services group Compagnie  Generale de Geophysique is to buy Texas-based Veritas DGC Inc.  in a $3.1 billion deal to merge their seismic businesses, the  companies said on Tuesday.
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Investors approved a merger between the three Deutsche property trusts to form a $3 billion group, in one of the latest examples of consolidation in the listed property sector.
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MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  offered $38.1 billion to buy Canada's Alcan Inc in an agreed deal to create the world's No. 1 aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc
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Alcoa Inc. is part of a three-company consortium that will buy a major natural-gas pipeline in Australia for $1.3 billion. The consortium, which includes Diversified Utility &amp; Energy Trusts (DUET) and Alinta
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SYDNEY: James Hardie Industries yesterday struck a deal to pay US$1.1bil to compensate asbestos-related disease sufferers, boosting the company&#39;s stock as much as 8% as a 14-month row over funding neared its end.
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Private equity groups Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Permira said they would buy a majority stake in German commercial television group ProSiebenSAT1 in a deal worth around three billion euros (four billion dollars).
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Diversified manufacturer 3M Co  said on Thursday it has agreed to buy a Brazilian maker of orthodontic products for an undisclosed amount.
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Ispat International, the steel producer controlled by the Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, today announced it had agreed to buy LNM Holdings and International Steel Group in
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Monday said it agreed to buy the privately held BRG Petroleum Corp. for $325 million in cash. The company will fund the deal - which it expects to close on Feb. 1 - using cash on
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Shareholders of Deutsche Bank AG&#39;s three Australian real estate investment trusts approved aA$3.3 billion ($2.4 billion) merger of the funds and a plan to buy $1 billion of US industrial property assets.
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ElectricInvest Acquisitions Ltd., a division of Bahrain-based Arcapita Bank BSC, said Friday it will buy Viridian Group PLC, Northern Ireland's main power supplier, for 1.62 billion pounds ($3 billion).