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A Rio Tinto-Glencore tie-up would create the world’s biggest mining company. But odds of a merger between the two companies are touch and go…
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The takeover regulation panel has taken a dim view of Novus’s acquisition of Mustek. The company is pushing back…
Duncan Wanblad’s unlikely reinvention of Anglo American
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Hedge fund 36ONE Asset Management has written to chair Nigel Payne to register ‘serious concerns’ and requested a meeting to discuss the deal…
Dreadful déjà vu as Mr Price goes large
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Atterbury plays it cool on RMH buyout
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Atterbury, which is in talks to buy RMH, may have to stump up more than the company’s net asset value if it wants to…
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