Mergers

The Indian Internet story in India which is just over a decade old has unfolded itself beyond anyone’s imagination. It kick started in 2004 with eBay starting its operations in India by acquiring Baazee.com (India’s largest online…

India’s largest online travel company, MakeMyTrip, has announced the acquisition of Ibibo, a rival online travel company, for $720 million in stocks. This makes the valuation of the merged company at $1.8 billion, the largest in its…

Indian startup getting acquired by a Global biggie has been quite rare – however, things are changing and changing fast. Infact, Google, Facebook and Yahoo have all made their first Indian startup acquisition in 2014. Google acquired…

Mergers and acquisitions (M & A) is the area of corporate finances, management and strategy dealing which deals with purchasing and/or joining with other companies. Though the two are often mentioned together, a merger is very…

Unless you are living under a cave, you know by now that Microsoft has acquired Nokia’s Devices & Services business, Nokia’s patents, and their mapping services. According to the announcement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3.79 billion to…

Lets take a look at the funding & M&A deals that in the fortnight starting January 23rd 2012. Funding, M&A Deals of the Week Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type Who Funded…

We have recently published the top 10 mergers and acquisition deals for 2014. You can click here to check it. At Trak.in, we've been giving you regular updates of the big India funding deals and the top Mergers & Acquisitions…

Here is the snapshot of all the Funding, Mergers & acquisition deals happened in India for the week starting 21st November. Funding, M&A Deals of the Week Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type…

India Inc. is back making multibillion dollar deals like never before. The total deal value this year has surpassed 2007 which was the big ticket year for mergers and acquisitions. The recession and economic slowdown had caused a lot of…

How often do we come across the news of companies ending a successful joint venture, very rare! Hero will now have to sweat a lot to maintain the market share of 44%. As a result, newspapers are anticipating two wheelers prices to fall in…

A study by KPMG International highlights that 83% of acquisitions and mergers fail to create the intended value. Mergers and acquisitions are designed and executed to create growth, competitive advantages, technological acquisition,…

M&A activity in India is back with a bang on back of mega Telecom Industry deals involving Indian companies. According to figures released by ASSOCHAM, Mergers & Acquisition deals valued at USD USD 33.83 billion were executed during…

The auction process was always slated to peak out in a day or two with the soaring bids. So, it wasn’t a big surprise to see end of BWA Auction. What was surprising though is the news that pan-India winner of the BWA spectrum, Infotel…

According to the quarterly deals data, the total value of outbound (overseas) deals by Indian companies grew to over $12 billion in the March 2010 quarter from a measly $52 million seen in the same period last year. The number of deals also…

Finally, Bharti Airtel can now be termed as emerging-market multinational. Bharti and Zain Telecom on Tuesday signed a legally binding agreement in Amsterdam where Bharti acquired most of the African assets of Kuwait’s Zain telecom for a…

If you are a Early Stage Startup, your chances are of getting VC or Private Equity funding is very slim and numbers prove it – Only 9% of all the VC / PE deals have been for early stage companies between 2004 to 2008. This is especially…

These two acquisitions were the cynosure of all eyes in the past years. Is the world looking at these big-ticket acquisitions with the same respect? I doubt it. Corus to me is the first thing that went wrong for Tata group. It paid a…

Who will benefit? definitely not Chevron. Chevron has a 5% stake in Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL). It bought the stake 3 years ago for 60 rupees per share. If it doesn't raise the stake now to 29%, it will get the same amount of money it…

Tata Teleservices has sold a stake of 26% to Japan's NTT DoCoMo. The deal value is $2.7 bn. Tata Tele has 30 million CDMA subscribers and is rolling out its GSM services. Some say the deal is over-valued and some say its not easy to put…

Unitech's stock was available at at throw away price. People were choosing between Colgate paste and unitech stock. It has also complained to SEBI about a possible stock price manipulation. It's subsidiary, Unitech Wireless has recently won…