Mergers and Acquisitions

Office chair maker Herman Miller Inc said on Monday it would buy peer Knoll Inc for $1.8 billion in a cash-and-stock deal, a move that would help the company expand as offices around the world start bringing their employees back to work.

Australia’s Crown Resorts Ltd said on Monday it will assess a A$3 billion ($2.32 billion) offer by U.S. private equity firm Oaktree Capital to buy James Packer’s 37% stake in the casino operator.

Satoshi Tsunakawa, who previously led the company and until Wednesday was chairman, will once again assume the helm

The Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel and Casino is being sold.

U.S. stocks pulled back as investors readied for the start of earnings season.

Vox Media said it is acquiring Cafe Studios Inc., publisher of a popular podcast hosted by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, part of a bid to expand its growing audio business.

Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday that it has received an acquisition proposal from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners

SoftBank Group Corp. agreed to pay $2.8 billion for a 40% stake in Norwegian warehouse-automation company AutoStore, marking another big bet by the Japanese conglomerate on robot-enabled technology.

A Maryland hotel magnate and a Swiss billionaire have made a bid for Tribune Publishing Co. that the newspaper chain is expected to favor over a takeover deal it already struck with hedge fund Alden Global Capital LLC.

Struggling tour operator Air Transat is in talks with the federal government on aid but may not reach a deal by an April debt deadline, a source close to the situation said, putting pressure on Quebec to ride to the rescue of another troubled aerospace brand in the province.

WeWork has agreed to sell itself in a blank-check deal that will result in the shared office space provider becoming a publicly traded company almost two years after its initial public offering debacle.

Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire messaging platform Discord Inc. for $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter, as the software giant seeks to deepen its consumer offerings.

Could a Donald Trump-branded Special Purpose Acquisition Companies -- known on Wall Street as a SPAC -- be in the former president's future?

After consultation with the insurance company's financial and legal advisors, The Hartford said in a statement that its board of directors determined that entering into discussions regarding a strategic transaction would "not be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders."

WeWork lost $3.2 billion last year, according to documents shown to prospective investors by the office-sharing startup as apart of a pitch for $1 billion in investment and a stock market listing, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. agreed to acquire Kansas City Southern in a transaction valued at about $25 billion that would create the first freight-rail network linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.

The Hartford is being chased by Chubb for a potential takeover.

U.S. equity markets battled higher Wednesday as investors digested the Federal Reserve’s latest policy decision.

The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to take a harder line on drug-company mergers, announcing plans Tuesday to overhaul its process for reviewing deals that could harm competition in the pharmaceutical industry.