Soyoung Kim

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shire Plc is seeking a higher takeover offer from U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc that would value the company at about 31 billion pounds ($53 billion), according...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor support for large acquisitions and a desire to trump rivals in consolidating markets have led chief executives to strike big transactions so far in 2014,...

By Soyoung Kim, Sophie Sassard and Michelle Sierra NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Sprint Corp has lined up eight banks to finance its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile US Inc, edging closer...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mergers of equals were largely dead long before ad giant Omnicom Group Inc struck its ill-fated $35 billion deal with rival Publicis Groupe SA. That didn't...

(Reuters) - AT&T; Inc plans to pay $48.5 billion to buy DirecTV, in the latest sign that the wireless industry and the U.S. television market are set to converge as...

By Soyoung Kim and Liana B. Baker NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T; is close to announcing that it will buy the No. 1 U.S. satellite TV operator DirecTV, according to...

LONDON/NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - The $35-billion merger of U.S.-based Omnicom and France's Publicis collapsed on Friday after a battle for control destroyed plans to create the world's largest advertising agency....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - DirecTV is working with advisers including Goldman Sachs Group to evaluate a possible combination with AT&T; Inc , following a recent takeover approach from the mobile...