The ACCC has pulled the handbrake on agricultural juggernaut Elders buying out its rival Delta for $475 million out of concern the deal could raise prices and make access tougher for farmers in rural WA.
Simone Grogan
WiseTech Global will borrow $3b to fund its expansion in the US as the logistics software firm aims to put a series of sex scandals surrounding founder Richard White behind it and focus on growth.
Daniel Newell
A China-backed gold miner worth $60 million has taken advantage of the soaring price of bullion by offloading a non-core project for $250m.
Ben Harvey
The mid-tier gold producer is reputedly at the negotiating table with two companies in its backyard just nine months after making a $1.2 billion purchase.
Adrian Rauso
Australia’s competition umpire won’t stand in the way of IAG’s move to buy RAC Queensland in a decision that could clear the way for the behemoth to take control of WA’s biggest general insurer.
The board of Subiaco-based copper explorer New World Resources has accepted a $185 million takeover offer from London-listed Central Asia Metals.
The Motor Trades Association of Australia has blasted Insurance Australia Group’s proposed $1.35 billion takeover of RAC WA’s insurance business and similar deals in two other states.
Neale Prior
Shares in a Perth junior have climbed more than 150 per cent following a takeover deal with a Chinese rare earths heavyweight.
RACWA will sell off its insurance business and enter into a decades-long partnership with Australia’s biggest insurance group as it battles a rising number of claims and increasing regulation.
The voracious appetite for WA’s gold-rich land shows no signs of being subdued with seven miners jumping in the data room of a $400 million company.
Australian property listings platform Domain has sealed a $3 billion deal with CoStar after the US suitor sweetened its offer to get its hands on the Nine Entertainment-controlled group.
The depleted De Grussa copper mine failed to find a new owner but Sandfire Resources has capitalised on the gold boom to sell a nearby deposit.
Stranded shareholders of AVZ Minerals have been thrown a lifeline after the delisted West Perth outfit inked a sale deal for its Congolese lithium project before Chinese interests could seize control.
The WA motoring mutual said the reforms proposed for its unwieldy member-elected WA council were aimed at aligning the century-old group with ‘contemporary good governance practices’.
Sean Smith
Channel 7 and its suite of digital television offerings will extend their reach to almost the nation’s entire population after it snapped up television licences across a vast swathe of regional Australia.
Gold Road Resources has squeezed an extra $380 million from Gruyere gold mine partner Gold Fields after shaking hands on a $3.7 billion buyout deal.
The Gruyere takeover tussle could soon reach a climax after Gold Fields suggested it wants a second bite of the cherry.
A shakedown in Mali has seen gold miner Resolute Mining pay $US150 million ($234m) to significantly step up its presence in a neighbouring West African country.
The local business provides high-voltage electrical maintenance services for the resources sector, with a focus on iron ore mines.
The Louisiana LNG project on the Gulf of Mexico will enter production in 2029, with the company saying it will position Woodside as a ‘global powerhouse’.
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.
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.
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.
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