Liberty Media announces Barnes and Noble acquisition

Round-up of today's M&A deals.

Liberty Media has offered to buy Barnes and Noble, valuing the US book retailer retailer at £616 million.

The offer caused the stock to jump 24.7 per cent in after-hours trading well above the offer price of £10.5 per share. Barnes and Noble, which operates 705 retail stores and 623 college bookstores, has been facing financial pressure, and as a result turned much of its attention to digital books.

Other M&A deals

  • Vedanta Resources makes plans to aquire Cairn India

Sector: Commodities

Value: £5.9 billion

Advisers: Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, Goldman Sachs International, Morgan Stanley, UniCredit

  • Scientific instrument maker Thermo Fisher Scientific aquires Phadia

Sector: Medical

Value: £2.2 billion

Advisers: Barclays, Goldman Sachs

  • Deckers puts its best foot forward and aquires sports shoes brand Sanuk

Sector: Apparel

Value: £74 million

Advisers: Peter J. Solomon Company,Stradling Yocca Carlson and Rauth, Moss Adams Capital, Daniel P. Murphy

  • Bull & Lifshitz to aquire clinical research organization Kendle International

Sector: Medical

Value: £143 million

Advisers: J.P. Morgan Securities, Keating, Muething & Klekamp, Morgan Stanley, Weil Gotshal & Manges

  • Burr Pilger Mayer acquire the San Jose accounting and tax operations of CBIZ

Sector: Finance

Value: undisclosed

Advisers: undisclosed

  • Vitro diagnostics bioMérieux has signed an agreement to acquire AES Laboratoire

Sector: Medical

Value: £157.8 million

Advisers: undisclosed

Todd Cardy

Todd Cardy

Todd was Editor of GrowthBusiness.co.uk between 2010 and 2011 as well as being responsible for publishing our digital and printed magazines focusing on private equity and venture capital.

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