Mergers and Acquisitions

Online retailers are getting physical.

The Italian group based in the Piedmont region is working on a possible deal with Rothschild as advisers.

A pair of buyout firms is planning to take the travel software company Travelport private in a deal worth about $4.4 billion.

Nutrisystem shareholders will get $38.75 per share in cash and 0.2141 Tivity Health shares for each share of Nutrisystem common stock.

Shareholders have approved the sale of Oklahoma-based drive-in burger chain Sonic to the parent company of Arby's in a $2.3 billion merger.

A Brazilian federal court has at least temporarily blocked a US$4.75 billion joint venture between Boeing and Embraer until the incoming government takes office.

Eddie Lampert and his ESL Holdings hedge fund are offering to buy the rest of Sears for up to $4.6 billion in cash and stock.

After years of plunging sales and declining store traffic, Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last October.

The Justice Department filed its lawsuit to stop the deal in November 2017.

Global port operator DP World says it has acquired Danish logistics firm Unifeeder for $748 million, about 660 million euros, helping the Dubai-owned company expand its foothold through the largest feeder and shortsea network in Europe.

While some powerful European Union governments are uneasy about China possibly capturing control of the bloc's critical energy and transport infrastructure, one of western Europe's smallest economies is grabbing the opportunity with both hands.

Cronos said no agreement had been reached with respect to any transaction.

Qualcomm walked away from its agreement to buy NXP in July.

Shares of Tesaro soared early Monday after GlaxoSmithKline said it would pay about $5.1 billion in cash to buy the cancer drugmaker.

Glaxo plans to pay $75 per share for Tesaro.

The deal increases the consumer goods giant's footprint in one the world's fastest-growing economies

Nexstar said it would pay $46.50 per share.

The Chilean Stock Exchange said the shares would be offered in a single block.

Speculation about a possible merger has continued despite the bank's dismissal in September of reports that it could consider tie-ups with Switzerland's UBS or German peer Commerzbank.

A major coal mine expansion in southeastern Montana received a preliminary green light from state and federal officials on Friday even as the mine's owner remains tied up in bankruptcy proceedings with plans to sell the property.