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The bid for Royal Bank of Scotland amounts to GBP8 billion and is being reviewed to be done by TD Bank.

Elliot Management is holding out for a higher valuation of its shareholdings in Kabel Deutschland in the takeover bid by Vodafone Group Plc.

In a bid worth AUD1.5 billion, Westpac stands to acquire the asset finance and commercial lending units of Lloyds Banking Group in Australia.

As reported by Dow Jones, Celesio shares increase after McKesson interest in buyout becomes public.

Prem Watsa, the Canadian Warren Buffett, expressed confidence as to his consortium's bid for the floundering Canadian smartphone maker.

The USD4.7 billion bid by Fairfax for BlackBerry would be backed up by loans, equity investments and its own shares in the smartphone maker.

A bid for Alitalia was being reviewed by the Air France-KLM Group.

KPN shareholders would meet to study American Movil's bid.

Kudu, the Saudi Arabian fast food chain, had opened bidding for 60% of its shares with KKR and Abraaj as the firms front running for the bids.

TDF set its floor price for its sale at EUR4 billion but offers made were below the said price.

The leading firms in the bidding consortiums for EVO Banco have been reported by the Financial Times.

Simcere founder with the firm's CEO formed a consortium to bid for the purchase of Simcere Pharmaceutical Group.

Leonard Riggio suspended his planned bid for Barnes & Noble Inc.'s retail businesses amid the firm's accelerating losses.

Permira placed a bid for Cermaq.

Hellenic Postbank, Greece's largest lender, is slated to receive separate bids fro the country's largest banks.