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Roche Holding AG's CEO Severin Schwan said the company won't raise any credit financing after a report from the DealReporter said Roche would acquire BioMarin Pharmaceuticals.

Sentry Equipment Corp. announced its acquisition of Accurate Tool Company assets.

Retrophin announced today that it had made another proposal to acquire all Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc. shares of common stock valued USD4 per share in cash.

Today, Roadrunner Transportation Systems announced its acquisition of YES Trans Inc. valued approximately USD1.2 million in cash.

Sources said the Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) would be buying a 12% stake in the Brazilian oil field owned by Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras).

Sources told Reuters that shareholders of Smithfield Foods Inc was close to approving the Chinese company's USD 4.7 billion offer.

Huntsman Corp said it would be buying the titanium dioxide pigment business of Rockwood Holdings for USD 1.1 billion.

Sun Capital Partners, headed by Marc Leder, was reportedly interested in placing a bid on The Jones Group's department stores.

Clean Harbors, a Massachusetts-based environmental services company, acquired Evergreen Oil in a USD60 million deal.

In a joint statement on Monday, Packaging Corp. of America (PCA) agreed to purchase Boise Inc. for an aggregate transaction value of USD1.995 billion.

In a USD12.55 per share purchase, Boise Inc would serve to increase the capacity of the Packaging Corp of America.

For an undisclosed amount, Vance Street Capital purchases Lark Engineering to complement an earlier acquisition.

Today, Quintiles said it had completed its purchase of Novella Clinical as stated in the previously announced agreement.

Today, Splunk Inc. announced entering into a definitive agreement to acquire BugSense Inc, a leading analytics solution provider for machine data generated by mobile devices.

USMD Holdings announced today its acquisition of 17.96% ownership interest in USMD Hospital at Arlington that increased the ownership of the physician-led integrated healthcare system to 45.4%.