Here’s a periodical round-up of interesting M&A news across the world:

 
  • Broadcom raises takeover offer for Qualcomm
  • Alm. Brand to purchase Saxo Privatbank’s activities
  • Vestas signs on the dotted line for Utopus
  • Kazakhtelecom is set to bring Kcell back under ownership: Reuters
  • Kirby buying Higman Marine
  • Vodafone confirms talks with Liberty
  • Allianz snaps up Janashakthi
  • Ningxia Jiaze has ET Solar in the frame
  • MP Management Announces Acquisition of Factor Chosen Model Management Network
  • Cadence keeps pace with shareholders stock sale
  • Instone sets price for IPO
  • AT&T reviews options for data centre business once again: WSJ
  • Henlius considers IPO in Hong Kong: Bloomberg
  • Cobham divests units to Viavi
  • The eye in the sky shows Motorola is acquiring Avigilon
  • BoCom Leasing to inject cash into unit
  • Johnson explores sale of Neilson Active Holidays: Sky News
  • Safe Bag wraps up deal for PackandFly
  • Intel puts on new AR specs to search for buyers: Bloomberg
  • Olvi buying majority stake in Servaali
  • Alibaba buying stake in Ant Financial
  • CHK to cut stake in FTS via IPO
  • Bertelsmann offloading Arvato: Reuters
  • Chairman is reviewing his offer for Changyou.com
  • Adaptive Insights moving towards IPO: Reuters
  • Sun Capital adds Coveris Rigid to list of companies for sale: Reuters
  • CBS board ‘to discuss potential Viacom merger’
  • Murdock peels back investment in Dole
  • CPDQ and Ardian Announce Closing of Acquisition of Significant Equity Interest in Alvest
  • ZTE seeks cash to help become 5G ready
  • Qiagen buying Stat-Dx
  • TDC picks up MTG’s Nordic ops
  • Chalco is now to acquire equity in subsidiaries, not sell up
  • ‘General Assembly could be lining up buyers as it explores a sale’
  • Tencent is considering a multi-billion-dollar investment in Heilan Home: Reuters
  • One Equity to take majority stake in Ericsson’s media services unit
  • CD&R taking Ply Gem private
  • Quess Corp Reinforces its Services Platform Through Two Major Acquisitions to Buy Monster’s Business Across India, SE Asia & the Middle East and the Care Business of HCL Services
  • AEM Holdings expands into MEMS testing, acquiring leading European solutions provider Afore Oy
  • On Assignment taking over ECS Federal
  • Seattle Genetics snaps up Cascadian
  • Electra puts TGI Fridays on the grill: Sky News
  • Millicom Completes Sale of Rwanda Operation
  • Unilever taking over Betty Ice
  • Seattle Genetics raises funds to finance acquisition
  • Fujifilm to take over Xerox
  • Wal-Mart enters talks over Flipkart stake purchase: Economic Times
  • Amdocs to purchase Vubiquity
  • ‘Rolls-Royce’s commercial marine ops attracts bidders’
  • ‘Rothschild-backed Augmentum to file for London listing’
  • Capita to tap shareholders for GBP 700mn
  • Capita flags ParkingEye and Constructionline for sale
  • Global Isobutene Market 2018-2022: Increasing R&D and M&A Activities – Market to Grow at a CAGR of 4.30%
  • Polaris dials into Fujitsu’s mobile phone ops
  • Shutterfly snaps up Lifetouch
  • ‘By-Health bulks up with Life-Space’
  • Global Business Intelligence Market in the Healthcare Sector 2018-2022: Challenges, Drivers & Trends – Growing Scope of Mobile BI, Movement of Big Data to Cloud & Increasing Number of M&A
  • HashChain Technology to purchase NODE40
  • Red Hat to purchase CoreOS
  • US-based Varian taps into Aussie market with Sirtex
  • Fleet Complete Acquires Ecofleet, Advancing its Expansion in Europe
  • Safanad U.S. Student Housing Investment Platform Now At $800 Million And 11,000 Beds Following The Acquisition Of 910-Bed Student Community In Maryland
  • SingleHop leaps into INAP’s arms
  • Avaya taking over Spoken Communications
  • Wanda Hotel sells Australian projects
  • ‘Elliott Advisors considers stake in Waterstones’
  • Cactus to list on New York Stock Exchange
  • ‘Renesas denies talks regarding a takeover of Maxim’
  • InterCement ‘mulling IPO of European and African units’
  • Mountain Province buying Kennady Diamonds
  • SAP picks up Callidus
  • Sensirion may go public: Reuters
  • Global E-cigarette Market 2018-2022: Market to Grow at a CAGR of 22.13% – Growing Trend of Online Retailing & Increasing Number of Mergers and Acquisitions
  • H&E Equipment buying Rental
  • CVC mulling Sky Bet IPO: Reuters
  • Quintana Energy outlines plans for an IPO
  • Keurig to give customers a taste of Dr Pepper, creating industry giant
  • Salzmann AG St. Gallen Sells Its Compression Division to the International Corporate Group Lohmann & Rauscher
  • Aphria, Nuuvera spark up a merger
  • WestRock signs off USD 5bn deal for KapStone
  • IPSCO has IPO in the pipeline
  • Schmolz + Bickenbach to acquire court protected Ascometal
  • Relx identifies ThreatMetrix as an acquisition target
  • Leonard Green close to acquiring Pro Mach: Reuters
  • ING to acquire majority stake in Payvision
  • A-Living aims for HKD 4.7bn IPO
  • Ping An to spin off and list healthtech arm
  • Mitsui makes rival bid for AWE
  • Mountain Province Diamonds to Acquire Kennady Diamonds in a Friendly All-Share Offer
  • Rakuten to enter general insurance with Asahi Fire
  • Sanofi continues spending spree with Ablynx purchase
  • EQT Mid Market to Sell I-MED Radiology Network to Permira
  • J.F. Lehman & Company Acquires Waste Control Specialists
  • ‘Fujitsu finds a buyer for its mobile business’
  • ‘EST-REIT in talks to merge with Viva Industrial’
  • Allergan in talks to acquire KaNDy: Bloomberg
  • CSSC’s subsidiaries are set for cash injection
  • COMEC’s shipyards get capital injection
  • Kering may exit Stella McCartney: Business of Fashion
  • ‘Dell’s options include a deal with VMware’
  • ‘Dell weighs options, could return to the stock market’
  • Shinsegae, E-Mart, to create e-commerce retail giant
  • Newell posts 2017 prelim results, explores alternatives for businesses
  • ‘Dell may launch Pivotal IPO or sale’
  • Prudential sells Vietnamese consumer finance business to Shinhan
  • ‘Chinese video streamer Kuaishou raising USD 1bn in funding, considers plans to go public’
  • IPO not ruled out for BoCom Leasing: executive
  • UBS snaps up part of Nordea’s Luxembourg private banking ops
  • Saudi-based Sabic to takeover a quarter of Clariant
  • Bharat Dynamics moves on with IPO plans
  • PPHE Hotel buys out Aspirations joint venture partner
  • Celestica to acquire Atrenne
  • Scotiabank lines up final bidders for metal business: Reuters
  • Ormat buying US Geothermal
  • HNA mulls options for Swissport: Reuters
  • Compass is to purchase Rimports
  • Dechra picking up AST Farma and Le Vet
  • BEWG to raise HKD 3.6bn
  • CMET issues bonds worth CNY 5bn
  • China Unicom Finance receives USD 1bn fresh equity
  • Aurora and CanniMed join forces
  • ONGC to acquire majority stake in Hindustan Petroleum
  • SABIC acquires strategic stake in Clariant from 40 North and Corvex
  • F1 gamer Codemasters is looking for banks to help run an IPO: Sky News
  • Jiahua Energy set to take over Mei Fu
  • Kangning Hospital shrugs off A share rejection
  • Ardian looking to dispose of chemical firm ESIM: Bloomberg
  • Young Innovations Announces Acquisition of Mydent International
  • Leagold digs deep for Brio Gold takeover
  • Novares could be the first French listing in 2018: Reuters
  • Prudential sells Vietnamese consumer finance business to Shinhan
  • Microsemi to explore options as shares surge: Reuters
  • Luye Medical wants to list, looks at Singapore: Bloomberg
  • MetLife preps Hong Kong insurance ops for sale: Bloomberg
  • GoDaddy buying Main Street Hub
  • Clean Harbors picking up Veolia North America’s industrial cleaning unit
  • Samchem to list ops in Vietnam
  • Affinity sews up Trimco purchase
  • Italo speeds towards IPO
  • Visa Equity mulls options for PowerSchool and PeopleAdmin: Reuters
  • Blockchain Infusion in Mobile Payment Solutions to Substantially Improve More Secure and Seamless Payment Transactions
  • Bacardi picks up Patrón
  • ONGC to acquire majority stake in Hindustan Petroleum
  • Sunlands seeks US IPO: Bloomberg
  • SRS could be worth USD 3bn in a sale: Reuters
  • Husky files shelf for USD 3bn offering
  • BAIC injects BJEV into QianFeng via backdoor listing
  • AIG to buy Validus
  • IntegraFin has London listing in its sights
  • Kingee watches market for expansion
  • Metrovacesa announces plans for IPO next month
  • Celgene secures Juno takeover
  • Steinhoff sells stake in PSG
  • Lincoln Financial agrees multi-billion deal for Liberty Life
  • Richemont to launch offer for YNAP
  • Sanofi to buy Bioverativ
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance Realigns Domestic and Global Property & Casualty Operations
  • Hanza taking over Wermland Mechanics
  • Compass to Acquire Foam Fabricators
  • Stone Pagamentos planning IPO: Reuters
  • CNB acquires Jacksonville Bancorp
  • Wyndham to spend USD 1.95bn for a night at La Quinta
  • JBS USA unloads cattle feeding assets and farms to Pinnacle
  • Home24 considering summer IPO: Manager Magazin
  • RESO mulling 2018 IPO: Reuters
  • Wyndham to spend USD 1.95bn for a night at La Quinta
  • Johnson & Johnson’s diabetes units attract Chinese bidders: Reuters
  • Country Garden in bond issue and equity dilution
  • IWG rebuffs second takeover attempt: FT
  • Activist investor pushes Whitbread towards a breakup: Reuters
  • CSRC defers vote on Dynagreen’s A-share offering
  • TRG Announces Acquisition Of Screen Group
  • Ingenico opens wallet for Paymark
  • BB&T reports strong fourth quarter earnings and record quarterly revenues; Diluted earnings per share up 16.1 percent annualized compared to third quarter 2017
  • Clearlake Capital picking up Janus International
  • Nomad Foods orders Goodfella’s Pizza
  • Unata to be delivered to Instacart: Bloomberg
  • Carlyle mulls Penti IPO
  • Elsevier Acquires Via Oncology, a Leading Provider of Clinical Decision Support Solutions for Oncology Professionals
  • MGP wants to create sector powerhouse with VICI
  • Mid Penn acquires First Priority
  • Informa in talks for UBM
  • JD.com shops for stake in Tiki
  • Miramax throws in a counter offer for Weinstein Co: LATimes
  • Ferrero sweet on Nestlé’s US confectionary ops
  • Saudi Arabian fund eyes stake in talent agency owner: Bloomberg
  • P2 Capital and Silver Lake to take Blackhawk private