Consortium buys Thresher Group
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Business & money: Private equity firm Terra Firma denies it made a loss in selling the UK's largest off-licence chain.
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Defense technology developer Foster-Miller Inc. of Waltham says it will be acquired for $163 million by Britain's QinetiQ Group PLC, a public-private partnership with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs  sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a  $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and  Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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Albatros Plant Nutrition, which was part of the McDonogh group, has been sold to Timac Agri business, a subsidiary of the French fertilizer company Roullier.
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The Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private equity firm, said today that it has agreed to acquire Annapolis-based ARINC Incorporated, a provider of communicaitons for transportation systems.
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An Australian-led consortium said it would buy the broadcast business of communications and entertainment group ntl Inc for 1.27 billion pounds (2.46 billion US dollars).
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Silver Lake Partners has agreed to acquire a quarter of the Gerson Lehrman Group, the upstart Wall Street research firm that has come under scrutiny from regulators.
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Utility firm AWG says it has agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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Overseas Shipholding Group Inc., the largest US-based oil tanker owner, agreed to buy Stelmar Shipping Ltd. for about $843 million.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia's Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc  has signed a  drug discovery deal with U.S. biotech firm ChemoCentryx  potentially worth up to $1.5 billion in milestone payments and  research funding to the privately owned group.
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Biomet, a major manufacturer of artificial hips and knees, said today that it had agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium for $10.9 billion.
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German drugs and chemicals group Bayer  said it planned to sell unit H.C. Starck to a consortium formed by Advent International and the Carlyle Group for 700 million euros ($908 million) plus debt.
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- TXU Corp.  said it agreed to be acquired by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $45 billion including debt.
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Triad Hospitals, under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise its share price, agreed yesterday to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs unit for $4.7 billion.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- A consortium led by Sony Corp. of America announced late Thursday the details of its $4.8 billion agreement to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has strengthened its relationship with Texas Pacific Group after landing an instruction to advise the US buyout house on its bid for British Vita.