As the high-profile antitrust trial on the T-Mobile-Sprint merger reaches a midway point, T-Mobile CEO John Legere testified Friday that the company could have to hike customer prices if T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion deal to buy Sprint falls through.
Read moreXL Specialty Insurance Co. claims in superior court that Starz Entertainment owes it $10 million for the $92.5 million shareholder class action settlement after Starz was purchased by Lions Gate.
Read moreShareholders claim in a federal class action that directors of The Medicines Company made false and misleading statements to support its sale to Novartis for $85 per share or $9.7 billion.
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The antitrust trial over a contentious $26.5 billion mega-merger of telecommunication giants T-Mobile and Sprint kicked off Monday with witness testimony after a federal judge bypassed opening statements.
Read moreShareholders say in a federal class action that Fitbit issued a false and misleading proxy statement for its proposes $2.1 billion merger with Google, at $7.35 a share.
Read moreA federal class action claims Cayman Islands-based Cision Ltd. issued a false and misleading proxy statement regarding its $2.7 billion merger with co-defendant Platinum Equity Advisors, for $10 a share.
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Texas is withdrawing from a multistate antitrust lawsuit seeking to block a proposed $26.5 billion merger of telecommunication giants T-Mobile and Sprint that critics say would raise prices for consumers, particularly those in rural areas.
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Charles Schwab is buying rival TD Ameritrade for $26 billion, a blockbuster deal accelerated by massive disruption in the online brokerage industry.
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French luxury group LVMH has agreed to buy iconic New York jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $16.2 billion, adding a star to its portfolio that already boasts Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Bulgari.
Read moreHP computers said its board has rejected a roughly $33.5 billion takeover offer from Xerox.
Read moreSeven months after BB&T and SunTrust announced plans to merge, the Justice Department cleared them a path Friday that requires one of the largest divestitures in a bank merger in the last decade.
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Marlboro-maker Altria is taking a big financial hit from its $13 billion bet on Juul Labs, in which it acquired a one-third stake less than a year ago.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that it will not hear French supermarket giant Carrefour’s challenge to fines levied against a now-dissolved legal entity that was taken over in a merger.
Read moreDirectors are selling Avon too cheaply through an unfair process to a newly formed Brazilian cosmetics company, Natura, in a cash and stock deal valued in the hundreds of millions, shareholders say in a class action in Kings County Court, N.Y.
Read moreDirectors are selling Pivotal Software too cheaply through an unfair process, for $15 a share or $2.7 billion, shareholders say in a federal class action.
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Mass-media company Gannett Co. Inc. is set to be bought by New Media Investment Group creating a dominant force in print and digital news, but a class action lawsuit seeks to block the deal alleging that crucial information was withheld from investors in statements filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.
Read moreFour counties sued California Resources Corp. in Ventura County Court, claiming it violated environmental and hazardous waste-disposal rules after acquiring gas and oil assets and liabilities from Occidental Petroleum.
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(CN) – Caesars Entertainment is set to be acquired by Eldorado Resorts for $17.3 billion in cash and stock to
Read moreU.S. energy giant ExxonMobil will sell its assets in Norway to Norwegian company Var Energi, owned by Italian Eni, for $4.2 billion, the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv reported.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington approved a settlement Wednesday that will allow CVS and Aetna to go forward with a $69 billion merger.
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