M&A experience
2012 ι 2011 ι 2010 ι 2009 ι 2008 ι 2007 and earlier
MandA-2007-12-NorthgateIS
December 2007
Recommended acquisition by NIS Acquisitions Ltd
£970m
MandA-2007-12-Carillion
December 2007
Acquisition of Alfred McAlpine
£607m
MandA-2007-11-OakHill
November 2007
Acquisition of Firth Rixson
£945m
MandA-2007-10-NDentressangle
October 2007
Acquisition of Christian Salvesen
£294m
MandA-2007-09-Nasdaq
September 2007
Acquisition of OMX in partnership with Borse Dubai
$4.5bn
MandA-2007-08-Henkel
August 2007
Acquisition of ICI's National Starch Business
£2.7bn
MandA-2007-06-Tesco
June 2007
Recommended offer for Dobbies Garden Centres
£289m
MandA-2007-04-PPR
April 2007
Acquisition of a controlling stake in PUMA & launch of friendly takeover
£3.3bn
MandA-2007-03-GeorgeWimpey
March 2007
Proposed merger with Taylor Woodrow
£2.7bn
MandA-2007-03-TUI
March 2007
Merger with First Choice to create TUI Travel plc
£2.9bn
MandA-2007-02-Essar
February 2007
Acquisition by Vodafone of a majority stake in Hutchison Essar
£5.6bn
MandA-2006-12-JapanTobacco
December 2006
Recommended cash offer for Gallaher Group plc
£7.5bn
MandA-2006-12-Catlin
December 2006
Acquisition of Wellington Underwriting plc
£591m
MandA-2006-11-CSN
November 2006
Proposed acquisition of Corus Group plc
£4.9bn
MandA-2006-07-Ashtead
July 2006
Acquisition of
NationsRent
$1bn
MandA-2006-04-ICAP
April 2006
Acquisition of
EBS Group Limited
US$775m
MandA-2006-04-CadburySchweppes
April 2006
Acquisition of
Dr Pepper / 7 Up Bottling
$1bn
MandA-2006-03-BOC
March 2006
Offer by Linde AG
€3bn
MandA-2006-02-MLIM
February 2006
Acquisition by BlackRock, Inc
$9.487bn
MandA-2006-01-Mittal
January 2006
Acquisition of Arcelor
€28bn
MandA-2005-10-O2
October 2005
Recommended offer by Telefonica
£17.7bn
MandA-2005-09-gasNatural
September 2005
Offer for Endesa
€23bn
MandA-2005-09-Exel
September 2005
Recommended offer by Deutsche Post
£3.7bn
MandA-2005-09-CD&R
September 2005
Acquisition of Hertz by consortium led by CD&R
$15bn
MandA-2005-07-UBM
July 2005
Disposal of 35.4% stake in Channel 5 Television
£248m
MandA-2005-07-Aberdeen
July 2005
Acquisition of Deutsche Asset Management & rights issue
£265m
MandA-2005-07-NCP
July 2005
Acquisition by 3i Group
£555m
MandA-2005-07-SABMiller
July 2005
Acquisition of Bavaria S.A.
$7.8bn
MandA-2005-06-Permal
June 2005
Acquisition of controlling interest by Legg Mason
$1.4bn
MandA-2005-05-Unilever
May 2005
Disposal of Cosmetics International
$800m
MandA-2005-05-Lastminute.com
May 2005
Recommended offer by Sabre Holdings
£606m
MandA-2005-04-HellmanFriedman
April 2005
Acquisition of DoubleClick
$1.1bn
MandA-2005-03-CD&R
March 2005
Acquisition of Rexel S.A.
$3.7bn
MandA-2004-09-Cemex
September 2004
Offer for RMC Group
£2.3bn
MandA-2004-04-Santander
July 2004
Offer for Abbey National
€13.5bn