Australia’s oldest dairy company is looking for its fifth owner in 20 years after being put on the market in the wake of a loan default by its Chinese parent.
Sean Smith
A red hot gold market has buoyed Argonaut to beef up its mergers and acquisitions team with the hire of a former Rothschild & Co banker.
Adrian Rauso
Insolvency experts from McGrathNicol have been put into Brownes’ parent, Australian Zhiran, by the Hong Kong-listed China Mengniu Dairy Company, which is owed $200m.
Macquarie Group is selling off its North American and European public investment businesses to Japanese banking and brokerage group Nomura in a deal worth about $2.8 billion.
Daniel Newell
The Australian oil and gas group has struck long-term deals to supply LNG to German company Uniper, with at least half of the gas to be sourced from Woodside’s planned Louisiana plant in the US.
More than 99 per cent of De Grey Mining’s investors have voted in favour of folding their shares into Northern Star Resources’ mega offer.
Struggling casino group Star Entertainment Group is still bleeding customers as long-delayed financial accounts showed it lost $302 million in the December half-year.
Australia’s largest gold miner is on the precipice of making its Pilbara dreams a reality after Gold Road Resources finally endorsed a multi-billion takeover deal.
Gold Fields should cough up at least another $1 billion to buy Gold Road Resources, according to the man that brought the two companies together at their shared gold mine.
The son of billionaire retail mogul Solomon Lew has bolstered his Global Retail Brands by acquiring Melbourne-based homewares and kitchenware business Salt&Pepper.
Cheyanne Enciso
Versace will be acquired by the Prada Group from the US luxury group Capri Holdings.
Staff Writers
Australia’s consumer watchdog has cleared Woolworths’ takeover of ready-made meals provider Beak & Johnston Holdings after finding no evidence it would lessen competition.
A new mining study is paving the way for Gold Road to demand a better takeover price from Gold Fields as the feud between mine partners rages on.
A consortium of US investors, including New York-listed Public Storage, has lobbed a $1.93 billion takeover offer for self-storage giant Abacus Storage King.
Amazon has reportedly put in a late bid to purchase short video app TikTok from Chinese owner ByteDance while Zoop says it is also in the running.
The 18-hectare Paris Grove village in Australind was put on the market last year after Albemarle iced the expansion of its nearby Kemerton lithium plant amid weak prices for the battery metal.
Parent company Kelsian says the business will be offered for sale as part of a portfolio of ferry, tour and resort businesses in Queensland, South Australia, NSW, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
Shares in property developer AVJennings have jumped after it agreed to be gobbled up by global private equity player Proprium Capital Partners and its local subsidiary.
Donald Trump has set a deadline this weekend for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a US ban on national security grounds.
Andrea Shalal and David Shepardson
Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways have been cleared for take-off with a partnership that will double the number of weekly flights between four key national gateways and Doha in the Middle East.
The US property market data giant circling Australia’s Domain has sweetened its offer for the real estate listings platform to almost $2.8 billion.
The Reject Shop may be best known for its bargain-basement prices on everyday items but it has managed to attract a top-shelf takeover bid from a foreign suitor.
In a fiery response, the chief of Gold Road has accused Gold Fields of lying, withholding information about the mine the pair share and labelled the South African giant ‘at best a bumbling JV partner’.
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan
A South African gold goliath is prepared to pay $3.3 billion to snap up its Goldfields joint venture partner, but the hunted wants to be the hunter.
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