Canada's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, which controls a $96.34bn portfolio, is plotting a bid to spoil BHP Billiton's (BHP) (BLT.L: Quote) $40 billion hostile takeover offer for Potash Corp (POT), the worlds top fertilizer maker. London-based BHP launched a 40 billion US dollars (£25 billion) bid for Canada's PotashCorp in...

OAO Polymetal (PMTLq.L), one of Russia's largest gold and silver producers, wants to boost the liquidity of its stock and is eying options including a share issue overseas (United States or Canada), a merger with another firm, a reverse takeover and the transfer of Polymetal (PMTL.MM) assets to a British-listed...

Taiwan's media and broadcasting regulator is set to approve private-equity firm Carlyle Group L.P.'s $1.14 billion sale of  Taiwan cable TV unit Kbro Co. On July 26, the Tsai Family, which controls Fubon Financial Holding Co. (2881.TW), said it was in talks with Carlyle to buy Kbro TV and was...

The Gulf city-state, Dubai's government hired HSBC (HSBA), Deutsche Bank (DBKGn) and Standard Chartered (STAN) to issue dollar bond. The issue would be the first government bond sale since Dubai World, a flagship company of the emirate, left financial markets reeling in November last year by asking for a delay...

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Private-equity firm Blackstone Group LP (BX) is in exclusive, early-stage talks to buy chemical company MatlinPatterson's Polymer Group Inc. (POLGA). Polymer is majority-owned by MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a New York-based investment firm. MatlinPatterson has been trying to sell Polymer, in which it the largest shareholder, for months. MatlinPatterson Global Advisers...

Canadian-based health sciences company, Sernova Corp (SVA) said its experimental glucose-control device showed safety and efficacy in a pre-clinical study in pigs that were made diabetic. Dr. Philip Toleikis, Sernova's President & CEO, noted "Our Cell Pouch System(TM) is a proprietary medical device implanted under the skin rapidly forming into...

Alstom (ALO), French power and transport engineering maker, signed a contract worth 100 million euros to build 90 megawatt wind farms in the state of Bahia, in Brazil with renewable energy company Engevix. Alstom will build three farms for Brazilian renewable energy company Desenvix, a subsidiary of Brazilian engineering group...

Solexant Corp., developer of third-generation ultrathin-film PV technology, raised $41.5 million in venture financing. Olympus Capital Partners led the round of financing, which included DBL Investors and Birchmere Ventures. Existing investors include Trident Capital, Firelake Capital, Medley Partners and X/Seed. Olympus is the lead investor in this new round of...