All Mergers and acquisitions articles – Page 8

Business
Total to buy Saft for battery boost

2016-05-16T00:00:00Z

€950m deal pushes French oil giant deeper into renewables
Business
Evonik acquires Air Products’ chemical unit

2016-05-10T00:00:00Z

Air Products also spinning off electronic materials to focus on industrial gases
Business
Daiichi Sankyo awarded damages from former Ranbaxy owners

2016-05-09T00:00:00Z

Arbitration says Singh family withheld information about regulatory investigations during Ranbaxy takeover
Business
Abbot boosts heart devices with St Jude buyout

2016-05-06T00:00:00Z

Medical devices consolidation continues with $25bn deal, but Abbott expresses concerns over proposed Alere merger
Business
Cancer deals spread

2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

AbbVie nabs antibody specialist Stemcentrx, while Sanofi pursues Medivation
Business
Chemours sheds disinfectants and aniline

2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dow Chemical and Germany’s Lanxess will buy plants as Chemours restructures following its spin-off from DuPont
Business
US treasury rules scupper Pfizer–Allergan merger

2016-04-08T00:00:00Z

Government aims to crack down on corporate tax avoidance through ‘inversion’ deals
Business
Roche sketches out Blueprint collaboration

2016-03-18T00:00:00Z

Drug discovery startup will contribute to cancer immunotherapy projects aimed at kinase enzymes
Business
Sanofi and Merck & Co end vaccines partnership

2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

Two-decade-long alliance will split by end of 2016
Business
AkzoNobel to buy BASF’s industrial coatings

2016-02-22T00:00:00Z

€475 million deal includes technology, products and sites in the UK and South Africa
Business
Mylan to buy Meda in further generics consolidation

2016-02-12T00:00:00Z

£6.9bn deal will give combined company ‘critical mass’ in US market
Business
ChemChina offers to buy Syngenta in $43bn takeover

2016-02-08T00:00:00Z

Directors welcome deal that will allow agrochemicals giant to establish a presence in China
Business
Medical devices consolidation continues

2016-02-04T00:00:00Z

Abbott to buy Alere for $5.8bn to augment its point-of-care diagnostics business
Business
Shire bets big on rare diseases

2016-01-18T00:00:00Z

$32bn Baxalta buyout will deepen Shire’s commitment to developing specialist drugs for small patient populations
Business
ChemChina buys German machinery maker

2016-01-13T00:00:00Z

Plastics and rubber equipment manufacturer KraussMaffei Group will retain German headquarters after €1bn deal
Business
ThermoFisher will buy Affymetrix to expand genetic testing

2016-01-13T00:00:00Z

Deal boosts Thermo’s position in growing genomics field as well as adding antibodies and assay technology
Business
GSK’s ViiV to buy HIV drugs from BMS

2016-01-11T00:00:00Z

Deal hands over Bristol-Myers Squibb’s entire HIV pipeline as the company looks to quit virology research
Business
AstraZeneca to buy Acerta for blood cancer drug

2015-12-24T00:00:00Z

Deal will strengthen AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy offering
Business
Accident and emergency

2015-12-22T00:00:00Z

2015 was a problematic year in the chemicals industry
Business
BioAtla and Pfizer to collaborate on antibody research

2015-12-21T00:00:00Z

Two-way agreement to share technology and royalties on new cancer drugs