M&A

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Thursday April 24, 2014. Zimmer Will Buy Biomet for $10.35B in Cash, $3B in Stock The Deal:Zimmer Holdings (NYSE: ZMH) and Biomet's parent company announced Thursday that Zimmer will acquire Biomet in a cash...

Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (NASDAQ-NMS: SBCF) and The BANKshares, Inc. ("BANKshares") announced today the signing of a definitive agreement pursuant to which BANKshares will merge with and into Seacoast. The acquisition will create the sixth largest Florida-based bank by total assets...

Banner Corporation ("Banner") (Nasdaq: BANR), the holding company for Banner Bank and Islanders Bank, and Idaho Bancorp (OTCBB:IDBC), the holding company for Idaho Banking Company, today announced the signing of an agreement pursuant to which Banner will purchase all of the stock and equity...

Howard Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBMD) and Rising Sun Bancorp, Inc. (OTCBB:RSAM) today jointly announced that their respective banking subsidiaries, Howard Bank and NBRS Financial Bank (NBRS), have entered into a purchase and assumption agreement for Howard Bank to purchase the NBRS Bank branch...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG) today announced the acquisition of American Wholesalers Underwriting, Ltd. in Stamford, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1994, American Wholesalers Underwriting, Ltd. (AWU) is a managing general agent and program...

Now that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has shut up its critics, at least for the moment, with much better-than-expected second quarter results, it might be time to reconsider a question observers have been asking for some time now: what should Apple buy with its current mountain of cash? Here are a...

Consolidation in the energy sector is at record levels in some areas. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal pointed out how private equity buying of natural gas assets is at its highest level since 2009. For investors, there are three ways to profit from this enduring and lucrative...

Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Vonlay, LLC, a healthcare technology consulting firm, specializing in clinical information systems and electronic health...

Novadaq® Technologies Inc. ("NOVADAQ" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NVDQ), the leading developer and provider of clinically relevant imaging solutions for use in surgical and diagnostic procedures, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of...

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZMH) ("Zimmer" or the "Company") and Biomet, Inc.'s parent company ("Biomet") today announced that their respective Boards of Directors have approved a definitive agreement under which Zimmer will acquire Biomet in a cash and stock transaction valued at...

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Wednesday April 23, 2014: Allergan Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan Following Valeant Bid The Plan:Allergan (NYSE: AGN) announced late Tuesday that its Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a one-year...

Intralinks® Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: IL), a global SaaS provider of inter-enterprise content management and collaboration solutions, today announced the acquisition of docTrackr, a leading provider of document security solutions. docTrackr's innovative security and digital rights management (DRM)...

LCA-Vision Inc. (NASDAQ: LCAV), a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus® brand, today announced that two leading proxy advisory firms, ISS Proxy Advisory Services and Glass, Lewis & Co., has each issued a recommendation that LCA-Vision Inc. stockholders vote...

Gladstone Commercial Corporation (NASDAQ: GOOD) (the "Company") reported today that it purchased a 61,358 square foot creative office building located in Rancho Cordova, CA for $8.2 million. The property is fully leased to Barco, Inc. ("Barco") through April 2024. Barco is a global technology...

(Marketwired) -- 04/23/14 -- (NYSE: STN) North American design firm Stantec will bolster its growing environmental service presence and capabilities across the western United States by acquiring JBR Environmental Consultants. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, JBR is a 140-person full-service...