Mergers and acquisitions

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• IBM shares fall as third-quarter revenues drop 4% on last year

  20 Oct 2014: Tech firm giant’s chief Ginni Rometty describes performance as disappointing as GlobalFoundries is paid £930m to take chip firm

• AbbVie reconsiders $54bn takeover of Shire: what the analysts say

  15 Oct 2014: The news triggered a sell-off in UK pharmaceutical shares
  

• Shire shares crash 28% as AbbVie reconsiders £34bn takeover bid

  15 Oct 2014: More than £8bn wiped off drug-maker’s market value and follows moves by US Treasury to clamp down on tax inversion deals

• US taking 'close look' at Waldorf Astoria hotel sale to Chinese company

  13 Oct 2014: Officials have said the sale could have implications for the government’s longstanding relationship with the hotel

• UK medical firm Synergy bought by Steris

  13 Oct 2014: Combined company will be incorporated in the UK but its operational and US headquarters will remain in Mentor, Ohio

• Rio Tinto rises on rejected Glencore approach

  7 Oct 2014: £3.1bn added to mining company’s market value after revealing that rival made a potential merger approach in July

• New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel sold to Chinese company for nearly $2bn

  6 Oct 2014: Arbang Insurance Group snatches up glamorous New York City hotel but Hilton will continue to manage it for the next 100 years

• EY partners share in rising profits amid M&A and IPO boom

  2 Oct 2014: Advising on mergers and acquisitions and company flotations helped boosted revenues to nearly £2bn in the year to the end of June

• Greene King approaches Spirit Pub Company with £660m offer

  23 Sep 2014: Pub and brewery group reportedly offers Spirit 110p a share, as it competes for bigger share of dining market

• AstraZeneca shares fall as Obama thwarts tax inversion deals

  23 Sep 2014: Pfizer pursuit of UK pharmaceutical less likely after president closes loophole allowing takeovers in lower tax regimes

• French chemicals group Arkema offers £1.4bn for Total's Bostik

  19 Sep 2014: Disposal of maker of Blu-Tack would increase French oil major's sell offs this year to nearly $20bn

• Viacom and Channel 5 unveil joint commissions as takeover deal closes

  10 Sep 2014: New programming includes reality TV series in which participants ‘go back to life in the stone age’. By Mark Sweney

• Microsoft in talks to buy Minecraft studio?

  10 Sep 2014: The tech firm may pay as much as $2bn for the makers of the hugely popular game, according to reports. By Keith Stuart

• Hotel wars: the battle for Claridge's, the Connaught and the Berkeley

  6 Sep 2014:

  Paddy McKillen owns three of London's best-known hotels, and is fighting a bitter battle to keep them: the billionaire Barclay brothers are hot on his heels. The developer (and art collector) tells Jon Henley why the fight goes on

• HP court filing claims Autonomy in 2010 headed for financial 'plane crash'

  5 Sep 2014: Email from ex-finance director part of claims by Hewlett-Packard UK firm's management falsified accounts in year before takeover

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