KKR to buy Dollar General for about $6.9 bln
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  said on Monday it will acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share, or about $6.9 billion.
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Artisan Components (ARTI:Nasdaq - news - research) shot up in Monday&#39;s premarket session after the UK&#39;s ARM Holdings (ARMHY:Nasdaq - news - research) announced it would buy the company for cash and stock that was worth nearly $34 a share at Friday&#39;s close
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German industrial conglomerate MAN AG   MANG.DE will offer cash and shares to buy Scania AB SCVb.ST   in a bid that values the Swedish truckmaker at 9.6 billion   euros ($12.2 billion) in total, MAN said early on Monday.
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Dollar General Corp. (DG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday reported higher quarterly profit because of a tax benefit and new stores, but the company said its outlook is uncertain
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The Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group, a British nonlife insurer, offered 6.4 billion kroner ($1.2 billion) to buy the stock it does not already own in Codan, a nonlife insurer in Denmark. Royal and Sun bid 605 kroner apiece for the shares, a premium of 15 percent over the closing price Wednesday of 525 kroner. Royal and Sun completed the sale of operations in the United States in March to focus on British and Scandinavian businesses and on emerging markets.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that helped to create the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering of common units.
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US buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. is buying Masonite International (MHM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , a Canadian-based maker of building products
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A consortium led by private-equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group is nearing a deal worth close to $45 billion for a Texas energy giant in what would be the largest leveraged buyout ever, according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.
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DOW Jones has agreed to buy online financial information provider Marketwatch Inc for $US519 million ($674.9 million) in cash, or $US18 ($23.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit said on Thursday it would buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion (US$3.9 billion), the latest in a string of property takeovers by the U.S. investment bank.
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Teck Cominco  on Tuesday said it would buy Aur Resources  in a friendly cash and stock offer worth C$4.1 billion ($3.87 billion), boosting the base metal giant's copper production.
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Dollar General Corp., the largest US retailer by number of stores, plans to close more than 400 locations next year and record expenses of about $138 million following two straight quarters of falling profit.
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TOKYO/LONDON  - KKR Financial Holdings , the listed affiliate of private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co , has delayed repayment of debt backed by mortgage securities for the second time and begun a new round of talks with creditors.
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Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis  Roberts & Co.  said on Monday that it would acquire  discount retailer Dollar General Corp.  for $22 a share  in cash.
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KKR Financial Holdings , the listed affiliate of private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co , has delayed repayment of billions of dollars of commercial paper for the second time and begun a new round of talks with creditors, the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
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Kmart Holding Corp. will sell 18 stores to Atlanta-based The Home Depot Inc. for $271 million. Home Depot had previously agreed to buy up to 24 Kmart (Nasdaq: KMRT) stores for a price of up to $365 million.
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Gartner Inc., a provider of research for the information technology industry, on Monday said it will buy Meta Group Inc. for $10 per share, or $162 million in cash.