29.03.2011
- Cephalon has offered to buy the Australian company ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals for about $231 million, or 225 Australian dollars. Cephalon's bid "has the unanimous support of the...
16.02.2011
- Air Products & Chemicals Inc ended its year-long battle for Airgas Inc after a Delaware judge upheld Airgas's use of a "poison pill" defense against a $5.9 billion hostile bid by...
11.02.2011
- Shares of Dutch chemical group AkzoNobel surged on talk of private equity takeover interest, traders said, though a deal would be improbably hard to fund, given its 11 billion euro...
26.01.2011
- Air Products took its year-long, $5.9 billion fight for Airgas back to court on Tuesday in a case that could shape the way big hostile takeovers are carried out. Air Products wants...
23.12.2010
- Airgas has rejected yet another takeover offer from rival industrial gas producer Air Products, saying a sweetened $5.9 billion bid is just not enough. Air Products stood firm...
13.12.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis has extended its snubbed $18.5 billion cash bid for U.S. biotech group Genzyme by six weeks, buying the French drugmaker time to persuade its reluctant target to...
13.12.2010
- Air Products & Chemicals made its "best and final" offer on Thursday for rival industrial gas supplier Airgas, bumping the price by 7% to $5.9 billion, but the shares fell as...
28.10.2010
- Danish-listed biotech Genmab is vulnerable to a takeover due to its current low share price, and the company needs more time to develop its full potential, its chief executive told...
