| | PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries added a billion euros to their offer for Alstom's energy business on Friday, hoping to see off a revamped bid by General Electric ahead of Monday's deadline for a decision on the struggling company's fate. | |  | | | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Buyout firms TPG Capital and Carlyle Group are targeting a $2.4 billion initial public offering of shares in Australia's Healthscope Ltd as their most-favored option for the country's second-biggest private hospitals operator, a source with direct knowledge of plans told Reuters. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group said it had sold more than a third of its TSB business in a stock market listing, more than originally anticipated following strong demand from investors for the new British bank. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - British drugmaker Shire has rejected a 27 billion-pound ($46 billion) takeover offer from AbbVie , the latest attempt by a U.S. healthcare firm to tap into the London-listed group's low tax rate. | | | | | | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Group (CKI) and an Australian pipeline company it plans to buy revealed on Friday they are in a bitter dispute over dividend payments, casting a cloud over the $2.2 billion deal. | | | | | | NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Sprint Corp has lined up eight banks to finance its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile US Inc, edging closer to a deal that would merge the third- and fourth-biggest U.S. mobile operators, according to people familiar with the matter. | | | | | | PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - If Vivendi was to draw up a personal ad to find its perfect partner it would read: | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc has recently approached London-listed Shire PLC about a potential takeover, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the latest attempt by U.S. healthcare companies looking to acquire overseas rivals partly to lower their tax rates. | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Rolls-Royce said it will return 1 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) to shareholders instead of buying another company, a moved aimed at restoring investors' confidence in the British aero-engine maker. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn asked struggling retailer Family Dollar Stores Inc to put itself up for sale immediately, threatening a proxy war to replace the company's entire board if a sale process was not started. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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