Mergers and Acquisitions

New government rules aimed at curbing overseas deals that cut corporate taxes appear to be working, just not entirely the way regulators intended.

State lawyers tell the Ohio Supreme Court that using a budget bill to privatize state prisons didn't violate a constitutional provision holding bills to a single subject.

Legal or not, the business of selling weed in the U.S. is as wacky as ever.

Years before Burger King sized up a Canadian headquarters in a hunt for lower taxes, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McFadden's investment firm was involved in a merger that moved an American pharmaceutical company to Ireland and significantly dropped its tax rate.

Burger King is in talks to buy Tim Hortons and form a new publicly listed company that would be based in Canada.

Walgreen plans to keep its roots firmly planted in the United States, saying it will no longer pursue an overseas reorganization of the company that would have trimmed the amount of U.S. taxes it pays.

New York's top financial regulator is investigating whether the nation's largest overseer of troubled mortgages, Ocwen Financial Corp., is overcharging struggling homeowners on insurance.

One of the country's largest overseers of troubled home loans, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., is quietly trying to sell a $100 million insurance agency that doesn't appear to exist.

The Dubai Financial Market says it has suspended trading shares of Arabtec, Dubai's largest construction company, pending clarification of media reports about strategic partners' stakes in the firm.

Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is planning to buy rival Lorillard Inc. for about $25 billion in a deal to combine two of the nation's oldest and biggest tobacco companies.

Cigarette makers Reynolds American Inc. and Lorillard Inc. say they are in talks of a possible merger that would combine two of the nation's biggest tobacco companies.

SoftBank would appoint a 'security director' to Sprint Nextel's board if its takeover bid succeeds and would give the U.S. government the right to approve the nominee.

Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, the two largest beer makers in the world, want to merge. The biggest question is whether regulators will let them.

A crucial deal for Yahoo has hit a snag after the IRS refused to bless the Internet company's proposed spinoff of its $23 billion stake in Alibaba Group as a tax-free transaction.

A vote on combining companies in the Samsung empire is pitting South Korea's richest family against small shareholders and foreign investors.

Thousands of South Korean investors are backing an American hedge fund's bid to thwart a business combination between Samsung companies that they argue will only enrich the country's wealthiest family.

U.S. antitrust enforcers on Tuesday cleared Reynolds American Inc. to proceed with its $25 billion acquisition of Lorillard Inc., ending months of uncertainty about whether the government would allow the second- and third largest U.S. cigarette makers to combine.

Even though Comcast's $45.2 billion bid for Time Warner Cable is dead, consolidation among the companies that pipe in our TV, phone and Internet will carry on.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says the company is moving "full steam ahead" with its proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable despite the uncertainty raised by President Barack Obama's call for tougher regulations on high-speed Internet service providers.

Burger King could lower its tax bill through a merger with Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons, though analysts say there’s more to the deal than the IRS.