Agrium gets backing from two major stockholders against Jana Partners proposals. Agrium Inc, the Canadian agricultural company received additional support in its proxy fight with Jana Partners, the hedge fund firm.
Regions
Safeway Subsidiary Files for IPO
Safeway's Blackhawk to open up for IPO. The gift card and payment service unit of Safeway Inc, Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc, has filed with federal regulators an application for an IPO of Class A common stock amounting to US$200 million.
Iconic Grenada School Exploring Sale
St George University is now on sale. St George's University in Grenada is up for sale according to anonymous sources. The school came to prominence when then US President Ronald Reagan ordered troops to evacuate American students in the island country following a military coup back in 1983.
Liberty to Purchase Stake in Charter Communications
Liberty purchases 25% Charter Communications. The Wall Street Journal recently reported, citing anonymous sources, that Liberty Media Corp will be purchasing 25% stake in Charter Communications.
Cynosure Acquires Palomar
Cynosure purchases Palomar's light based technology for US$294 million. Cynosure Inc has purchased Palomar Medical Technologies for US$294 million.
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Bahri's purchase of Aramco's Vela fleet now needs to be paid through sukuk bond issue. Saudi Arabia's National Shipping Co's acquisition of Saudi Aramco's marine subsidiary placed it in debt.
Sunac Greentown venture purchases land in Shanghai's Huangpu District for US$1.45 billion. Greentown China Holdings Ltd and Sunac China Holdings Ltd forged deeper bonds when it purchased a Hong Kong holdings company that has central Shanghai land assets in its portfolio.
Ratos and Bonnier to merge cinema interests in Nordic region. Ratos, the private equity firm and Bonnier the publishing giant has agreed to the merger of their cinema chains Finnkino and SF Bio respectively.
Rate cuts instituted to entice investors to capitalize with Fidelity China. Fidelity, the fund manager, announced that management charges paid annually on Anthony Bolton's Fidelity China Special Situations Investment Trust by investors will have a price discount.
Saudi Electric would float new sukuk bonds through two banks. The Gulf region's largest utility company, Saudi Electricity Co has chosen two banks to schedule meetings with fixed income investors from Europe and North America for possible debt agreements.
Suntech would be the first Chinese company to default on unpaid bonds. Suntech Power Holding Co. Ltd. received a notice of default yesterday from its trustee handling their $541 million in bonds outstanding.
Carlyle Group founders announce earnings for 2012. Each founder of Carlyle Group LP received $57. 6 million each in earnings from their shares in the private equity firm and executive salaries in 2012.
Warburg Pincus converts compulsorily convertible preference shares to increase stake in Capital Finance.
Value First purchases clk2c.com lock stock and barrel. ValueFirst Digital Media Pvt Ltd has recently acquired clk2c. com for an undisclosed amount. The purchase of the Gurgaon based digital media company would result in the acquisition of the mobile video service technology platform and its entire team.
