Mergers and Acquisitions

FairPoint Communications workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have known it had to come to an end.

Federal regulators are putting Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc.'s planned $25 billion takeover of rival Newport maker Lorillard Inc. under the microscope.

Burger King plans to become is the latest U.S. company to shift its legal address out of the country by merging with a foreign company.

Two weeks after rejecting a takeover bid out of Brazil, Chiquita says it's identified still more cost savings in a proposed tie-up with the Irish fruit company Fyffes.

Botox maker Allergan says it's reviewing shareholder requests for a special meeting to consider replacing most of its board.

In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts.

Dynegy plans to spend more than $6 billion to buy several coal and gas power generation plants from Duke Energy and Energy Capital Partners.

BP PLC said Wednesday that it has hired David Lawler as CEO of the oil and gas company's U.S. business, which is gearing up to spin off into its own separate company.

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc. said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell its Simonton Windows business to building products maker Ply Gem Holdings Inc. for about $130 million.

Botox maker Allergan, which is fighting a hostile takeover bid from Valeant Pharmaceuticals, has named longtime executive Jim Hindman its new chief financial officer.

Ingersoll-Rand PLC said Monday that it has agreed to buy the centrifugal compression business from Cameron International Corp. for $850 million, as it looks to grow its compression business.

Your next commuter car might have two seats, three wheels and get 84 miles to the gallon.

Coca-Cola Co. will acquire a 16.7 percent stake in Monster Beverage Corp. for $2.15 billion as part of an effort to boost growth.

Banana distributor Chiquita Brands says it is rejecting the $611 million buyout offer from investment firm Safra Group and the Brazilian agribusiness and juice company Cutrale Group.

General Electric confirmed that it is considering the sale of its historic appliance division as part of its effort to focus on selling more complex and more profitable industrial equipment.

Hertz is delaying filing its second-quarter financial results because of its ongoing review of some accounting errors.

Hachette Book Group said Thursday it has scrapped its proposed three-way deal that would have had it buying the publishing division of the Perseus Book Group, while selling Perseus' client-service business to leading distributor Ingram Content Group.

Calls for a special meeting of Allergan shareholders to discuss a hostile takeover bid by rival drugmaker Valeant don't change the fact that the buyout offer is "grossly inadequate," Allergan said Wednesday.

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corp. has completed the spinoff of Paragon Offshore PLC, owner of most of its standard specification drilling business.

Scientific Games says it will pay about $3.3 billion to buy slot machine maker Bally Technologies in a cash deal that expands its casino management system portfolio.