Daiichi Sankyo to Buy Plexxikon to Aid in Cancer Research The Japanese drugmaker will buy the privately held American firm Plexxikon for $805 million dollars, gaining a late-stage melanoma treatment as it looks to bolster its fledgling cancer pipeline. R [...]
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian potash miners Uralkali (URKA.MM) and Silvinit (SILV.MM) are set for a legal battle to complete their $23.9 billion merger after a court halted the process following a claim by investor Acron (AKRN.MM).
Uralkali (URKAq.L) and Si [...]
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian fertilizer producer, Acron (AKRN.MM), is asking Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the country's most influential politician, to block a merger between two potash producers, business daily Vedomosti wrote on Friday.
Acron has unsuc [...]
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AFP - Russian billionaire investor Suleiman Kerimov has bought shares worth $500 million (370 million euros) in state bank VTB to become its biggest private shareholder, the Vedomosti business daily reported Thursday.
Two funds belonging to Kerimov, a se [...]
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Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian billionaire and member of Parliament, became the largest individual shareholder of the state-run bank VTB, buying a $500 million stake in its partial privatization, according to the business daily Vedomosti . The Russian newsp [...]
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* Kerimov also to bid for Sberbank stake, Vedomosti sources
MOSCOW, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Russian tycoon Suleiman Kerimov
bought $500 million worth of shares of Russia's second largest
lender VTB (VTBR.MM), business daily Vedomosti reported on
Thursday, to [...]
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NICOSIA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A Cypriot court has revoked a
freeze on Russian assets worth $6 billion, including a stake in
potash maker Uralkali (URKA.MM) and mining group Polyus Gold
(PLZL.MM), because of a serious non-disclosure of facts.
The district [...]
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MOSCOW, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Shareholders in Russian potash companies Silvinit
(SILV.MM) and Uralkali (URKAq.L) have voted to merge, Russia's Vedomosti
newspaper reported on Monday, citing two sources.
Shareholders from the two companies met on Friday to [...]
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