Mergers and Acquisitions

The Dubai Financial Market says it has suspended trading shares of Arabtec, Dubai's largest construction company, pending clarification of media reports about strategic partners' stakes in the firm.

Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is planning to buy rival Lorillard Inc. for about $25 billion in a deal to combine two of the nation's oldest and biggest tobacco companies.

Cigarette makers Reynolds American Inc. and Lorillard Inc. say they are in talks of a possible merger that would combine two of the nation's biggest tobacco companies.

SoftBank would appoint a 'security director' to Sprint Nextel's board if its takeover bid succeeds and would give the U.S. government the right to approve the nominee.

Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, the two largest beer makers in the world, want to merge. The biggest question is whether regulators will let them.

A crucial deal for Yahoo has hit a snag after the IRS refused to bless the Internet company's proposed spinoff of its $23 billion stake in Alibaba Group as a tax-free transaction.

A vote on combining companies in the Samsung empire is pitting South Korea's richest family against small shareholders and foreign investors.

Thousands of South Korean investors are backing an American hedge fund's bid to thwart a business combination between Samsung companies that they argue will only enrich the country's wealthiest family.

U.S. antitrust enforcers on Tuesday cleared Reynolds American Inc. to proceed with its $25 billion acquisition of Lorillard Inc., ending months of uncertainty about whether the government would allow the second- and third largest U.S. cigarette makers to combine.

Even though Comcast's $45.2 billion bid for Time Warner Cable is dead, consolidation among the companies that pipe in our TV, phone and Internet will carry on.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says the company is moving "full steam ahead" with its proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable despite the uncertainty raised by President Barack Obama's call for tougher regulations on high-speed Internet service providers.

Burger King could lower its tax bill through a merger with Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons, though analysts say there’s more to the deal than the IRS.

AbbVie's $55B deal to buy Irish drug maker Shire would mark the largest tax inversion ever, as a growing number of U.S. firms eye lower rates overseas.

Crossing Signals? Dish Network's chairman reportedly approached DirecTV's CEO about a potential tie-up between the two satellite TV providers. 

The Federal Communications Commission signed off on AT&T’s $1.2 billion buyout of Leap Wireless after the telecom giant agreed to divest spectrum and make network upgrades.

Very public opposition from U.S. antitrust officials has reportedly caused Sprint to rethink its efforts to buy smaller rival T-Mobile US.

A blessing from Europe helps clear the way for Microsoft’s biggest-ever transaction, aimed at cementing its shift to a devices-and-services company.

Ottawa reportedly rebuffed efforts by Chinese electronics company Lenovo to acquire BlackBerry due to worries about national security.

Approval from CFIUS likely clears the path for the largest buyout of a U.S. company ever by a Chinese buyer.

First Citizens Bank agreed to buy 1st Financial Services, which operates Mountain 1st Bank branches in N.C.