Mergers and Acquisitions

Steris Corp. is spending about $1.9 billion to the buy British sterilization services company Synergy Health as U.S. corporations continue to incorporate overseas despite attempts to make such tax-saving maneuvers less lucrative.

Norwegian energy company Statoil says it has sold its stake in the Shah Deniz gas project in Azerbaijan to Malaysian company Petronas for $2.25 billion.

The snack company Mondelez named a former Dell executive as its chief financial officer Thursday.

Ireland's Endo International is buying Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc. in a sweetened cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.6 billion a few weeks after Auxilium rejected a lower bid for the company.

After a year that's been awash with multi-billion dollar deals, the number and value of mergers and acquisitions looks set to return to pre-crisis levels over the coming 12 months, consulting firm EY said Monday.

Chevron's Canadian subsidiary is selling its 30 percent stake in its Duvernay shale play to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. in a $1.5 billion deal.

Salix Pharmaceuticals is scrapping its merger with the subsidiary of an Italian drugmaker after the U.S. created new limitations on the tax benefits of incorporating overseas.

Medical device maker Medtronic is switching to $16 billion in financing to complete its purchase of Ireland-based competitor Covidien a few weeks after federal regulators issued rules designed to curb overseas acquisitions that cut tax U.S. tax bills.

Constellium is buying the U.S. aluminum company Wise Metals for $455 million in cash, giving the Dutch manufacturer more exposure to the big North American market.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has sold three parcels of land for more than $56 million in an effort to shore up its finances, church officials announced Thursday.

Dow Chemical is looking to sell three more of its businesses for more than $2 billion in proceeds as it continues to try to shed non-core assets.

Sears, sorely in need of cash, is selling most of its stake in its Canadian unit to raise as much as $380 million through a rights offering.

Sears, sorely in need of cash, is selling most of its stake in its Canadian unit to raise as much as $380 million.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying the privately-owned auto dealership company Van Tuyl Group.

RCS Capital Corp. said Wednesday that it is buying a subsidiary of American Realty Capital Properties Inc. that invests in commercial real estate for at least $700 million.

Johnson & Johnson is buying the biopharmaceutical company Alios BioPharma Inc. for about $1.75 billion.

Energy exploration and production company Murphy Oil said Tuesday it will sell some of its oil and gas assets in Malaysia for $2 billion.

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Changes to the proposed merger agreement between Chiquita and the Irish fruit company Fyffes will give Chiquita shareholders a larger stake in what would become the world's largest banana supplier.

Hawaii's largest independent gasoline operator is being sold to a Texas company for $240 million.