Sentences with phrase «deals basis year»

Overall, food tech startups raised $ 5.7 B across 275 deals in 2015, up 152 % on a funding basis and 102 % on deals basis year - over-year.

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-- The acquisition ties both Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget and his COO Julie Hansen into what Axel Springer described as a 10 - year, equity - based retention deal.

One such company, Midea, closed a $ 4 billion deal earlier this year to acquire Germany - based Kuka AG, a leading, global robotics supplier for plant and automotive robots with a research and development center in Austin, Texas.

Perth - based Paladin Energy has settled the sale of a 25 per cent stake in its flagship Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Nambia, under a deal originally announced to the market in January this year.

Stratum Metals has become the sixth Western Australian company to cancel a backdoor listing deal in the past year, with the Nedlands - based business reviewing its future options, including plans for the East Menzies gold project, after walking away from a planned reverse takeover of a US technology venture.

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

U.S. officials blocked a $ 2.9 - billion bid by Chinese investors to buy a controlling stake in a California - based unit of Dutch electronics firm Phillips last year, while another U.S. semiconductor firm rejected a lucrative offer from Chinese investors in favour of a lower bid from an American company because of concerns the deal would not win regulatory approval.

For years, B Corp certification was rumored to hurt a startup's ability to attract investors, but recent deals have debunked this theory: San Francisco - based education company Altschool has raised $ 170 million from venture capitalists, and Data.world, an Austin - based tech startup, recently closed $ 19 million in Series B funding.

Pittsburgh - based gas driller EQT Corporation's $ 8.2 billion purchase of fellow fracker Rice Energy was last year's biggest U.S. exploration and production deal.

Last year, Mattel struck deals with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding (baba) and online content developer BabyTree to sell interactive learning products based on its Fisher - Price toys.

The deal would also strengthen Microchip's base in the computing and communications sectors, which together accounted for less than 15 percent of its full - year sales.

Isle of Man - based GVC, which has grown rapidly into one of Britain's biggest online gambling companies, and high street - based Ladbrokes held talks about a deal earlier this year but they broke down without agreement.

According to Yipit, a New York - based company that redistributes collected daily deals, during the first half of the year there were 362 «deal» websites, but of those, 132 have already shut down.

This month has seen a spike in multibillion - dollar deals in biotech, with U.S. - based Celgene paying $ 9 billion for cancer specialist Juno Therapeutics, and several experts predicting a bumper year for M&A.

Kuraray will pay $ 1.1 billion in cash, or $ 21.50 a share, for the Pittsburgh - based water purification company in a deal targeted to close by the end of this year.

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

The company is in the early stages of an import - export strategy that began after completing the acquisition of U.S. - based Beam in a $ 16 billion deal that closed nearly a year ago.

Some analysts were positive on the deal, with Malaysia - based brokerage Maybank - KimEng saying it's «likely the wedding of the year in Malaysia.»

If the deal goes through, San Mateo, California - based SolarCity will adopt Tesla's name and sell its solar panels alongside Tesla's power - storing batteries, which it has been marketing to homes and businesses since last year.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

Waltham, Massachusetts - based Alere, which makes tests for infections such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and dengue, sued Abbott in August last year in an attempt to force the company to move ahead with the deal.

In fact, there are only a handful of publicly traded firms in the world that deal in the stuff, the biggest of which include Germany's Beate Uhse, Barcelona - based Private Media and Colorado - based New Frontier Media (Playboy used to be among this group, but it de-listed last year).

Last year, Goldcorp finalized its deal to acquire Vancouver - based junior Kaminak Gold, and in May of this year, El Dorado announced it was taking over Integra Gold for C$ 590 million.

At the same time, the $ 30 billion deal would value Precision at 20 times earnings, based on last year's $ 1.5 billion figure.

The Paris - based group, which counts Switzerland among its 35 member states, on Tuesday issued findings from a year - long review of the Alpine country that has long been associated with shady financial transactions and as a haven for clandestine deal - making.

MBNA, which made after - tax profits of # 123 million in the first half of 2016, would add # 650 million a year to group revenues, Lloyds said, adding the deal could shave # 100 million a year from MBNA's cost base.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

-- The acquisition ties both Blodget and his COO Julie Hansen into what Axel Springer described as a 10 - year, equity - based retention deal.

By May 2011, Yipit, itself a New York - based daily deals start - up that collects data on the industry, was tracking more than 500 of these companies, most of which were less than three years old.

At this point, health care is one issue I have chosen to deal with on a year - to - year basis, while also knowing that future changes might require us to work longer than we'd hoped.

San Antonio - based Rackspace was itself acquired by private equity firm Apollo Global in a $ 4.3 billion deal just over a year ago.

But if consummated, the deal could be worth more than $ 60 billion based on Aetna's current market value, which would make it one of the largest corporate acquisitions this year and one of the largest in the history of the health industry.

In December last year, the fund had sealed its second deal with Pune - based processed food maker Adinath Agro Processed Foods Pvt. Ltd..

The year - ago revenue figure excluded $ 1.6 billion of sales from Direct Broadcast Satellite, a TV service in Italy and Germany that Fox recently sold to U.K. - based industry peer British Sky Broadcasting in a $ 9.3 billion deal.

Six of the deals completed in the last two full months of the year involved companies based there, compared to three deals for firms located in other US cities.

The deal, announced Wednesday, moves the Los Angeles Times to local ownership after 18 often - contentious years in the fold of the Chicago - based newspaper publisher, formerly known as Tribune Publishing.

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CaixaBI raised $ 2 billion in 12 bond deals in 2013, and, in Portugal's first IPO in five years, the Lisbon - based bank was a global bookrunner for the IPO of Portugal's postal service, CTT - Correios de Portugal, last December.

Warsaw - based PKO Bank Polski raised $ 396 million for its clients in four equity deals last year, significantly growing its business with its $ 937 million purchase of Nordea Bank Polska from Nordea last June.

It already has a deal with Florida - based NextEra Energy to supply the parent company of Florida's largest utility with seven million panels over four years — one of the largest orders to date.

Based in Lagos, this Nigerian investment bank raised $ 344 million in a single equity offering last year — a follow - on deal for Oando, an oil and gas company, on May 20, 2013.

Run by a US - educated Kurdish financier, Baghdad - based Rabee Securities ran the only significant deal on the Iraq Stock Exchange last year when it listed Asiacell Telecommunications to allow majority shareholder Qatar Telecom to acquire minority interests for $ 1.3 billion.

Grupo Aval, based in Bogotá, raised $ 669 million in a single equity deal last year, more than any other bank in Colombia, making it the country's second - highest overall earner of investment banking fees, according to Dealogic.

Over the past year, mergers and acquisitions have increased considerably in the healthcare IT sector, with smaller deals yielding big returns on investment, according to report from New York - based investment bank Berkery Noyes released Jan. 11.

Private equity firms and strategic acquirers interested in making deals in K - 12 education this year will be looking to invest in businesses that provide adaptive learning and assessment, according to a report from Berkery Noyes, a New York - based investment bank.

Cadre, a three - year - old, New York - based online platform helping accredited investors delve into commercial real estate deals in what it claims is a far more transparent way, has received a big vote of

The Minneapolis - based chain signed a three - year deal to become an official sponsor of Major League Soccer, including broadcast advertising on Univision, Fox Sports and ESPN, and in - stadium experiences.

Brand and Rupp plan to complete 12 deals during the next three to four years, with a focus on Texas - based companies.

Last year, Goldcorp finalized its deal to acquire Vancouver - based junior Kaminak Gold, and in May of this year, El Dorado announced it was taking over Integra Gold for $ 464 million.

It also follows Saskatchewan - based medical marijuana company CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. becoming the first licensed producer to sign a deal with a national pharmacy chain when it signed a letter of intent with PharmaChoice in March of this year.