Mergers and Acquisitions

• Oil giant ConocoPhillips to split into 2 companies
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - ConocoPhillips, the nation's third-largest oil company, said Thursday it will split into two companies: one that produces oil and another that refines it into gasoline and other fuels.
   
  
• TPG Capital buying Immucor for $1.97B in cash
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Blood-testing equipment maker Immucor Inc. said Tuesday it agreed to be acquired by TPG Capital in a deal worth $1.97 billion, or $27 per share in cash.
   
  
• Western Union to buy Travelex unit for nearly $1B
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  NEW YORK (AP) - The Western Union Co. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Travelex Global Business Payments for about $973.8 million in cash, in a deal that will allow it to expand rapidly in the business of international payment processing.
   
  
• Foster's rejects $10 billion cash takeover bid
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australia's biggest brewer Foster's Group Ltd. said Tuesday it has rejected a $10 billion cash takeover offer from beer-maker SABMiller PLC as too low.