Flipkart- Myntra Merger (23rd May 2014)

The huge and most talked about takeover or acquisition of the year. Two of the major ecommerece companies merged to create an entity with annual sales of $1.5 billion. Myntra
has been valued of about Rs 2,000 crores . Myntras co-founder Mukesh bansal will join
flipkarts boardand will look into flipkarts fashion business. Flipkart and Myntra will remain
separate enitities but people holding myntras stock options will hold the same in flipkart.
Their combined might also places them in a better position to take on the likes of Amazon,
which has become increasingly aggressive in India's booming e-tailing market.

RIL buys Network18 group for uo to Rs 4,000 crore (30

May 2014)
RIL accquired thr majortity control of Network18 Media and Investments
and TV18 broadcast for upto Rs 4,000 crore through its independent
media trust. This was a strategy to bring in exclusive content for Reliance
4G foray. IMT will own about 78% in Network18 and 9% in TV18. This
accquisition was a further extension of january 2012 pact which IMT had
funded Raghav Bahl controlled Netwrok18 to acquire full control of
Hyderabad based Eenadu TV.

Ranbaxy- Sun Pharmaceuticals (8th April 2014)

Indias most valuable pharmaceutical company, Sun Pharma bought Ranbaxy Labortaries due
to multiple product quality issues, from Japans Daiichi Sankyo in an all share transaction of
$3.2 billion. Sun pharma has become a leader in fast-growing Rs78,000 crore Indian
domestic market with share over 9% and this helped the companty to overtake its rival
Abbott. T he deal will need approval of 75% shareholders each of Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy .
Ranbaxy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Sun Pharma for every Ranbaxy share they
own.

Actavis (ACT) and Forest Laboratories (18th Feburary

2014)
the two companies combined to form a cash and equity value worth $25
Billion. This combinition will increase the sixe of Actavis Specialty Brands
portfolio to over 30 products marketed in US.

Sterling India Resorts- Thomas Cook India (9th Feb

2014)
Billionaire investor Prem Watsa acquired vacation ownership pioneer
Sterling holiday Resorts india for Rs 870 crore. This helped the company to
expand in the hospitality sector. The two companies are merged at a swap
ratio of 120:100 meaning Thomas cook india will allot 120 shares for every
100 shares of sterling holiday. This deal gives Thomas Cook access to
Sterling Holidays 19 resorts over 16 destinations in the country. This can
offer customers by clubbing them with tour packages. And help Sterling
holiday increase its presence to compete with Mahindra holidays.

Lupin to buy 40 % stake in Pharma Dynamics (16th March 2015)

Lupin has acquired an aditional 40% stake in South African dynamics which made their
holding in company to 100%. Lupin had earlier acquired 60% in September 2008. On
completion of this transaction Pharma dynamics will become wholly onwed subsidairy of
Lupin . This helped the company as Africa is a fast emerging growth engines of the future.

Facebook acquires TheFind (16 March, 2015)

Social networking giant Facebook embraced e-commerce after it acquired shopping search
engine 'TheFind,' signalling its aspirations in two of the internet's biggest money-makers:
search and e-commerce.
Both Facebook and TheFind cast the acquisition as a way to lift the digital advertising
business of Facebook, which with $12.6 billion in annual ad sales last year, is unquestionably
a dominant player in the industry.

TheFind was co-founded in 2006 by CEO Siva Kumar and CTO Shashikant Khandelwal,
both native Indians. TheFind previously raised $26 million in three investment rounds, but
had not received an influx of cash since 2007.

Apple acquires Beats (5 May, 2014)

Apple announced it has acquired headphone maker Beats Electronic for $3 billion, including
$2.6 billion cash up front and approximately $400 million in stock that will vest over time. As
part of the deal, Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine will join Apple AAPL +1.15%
in undisclosed roles.
This acquisition is Apples biggest ever, and largest since it brought back Steve Jobs in 1997
though a $400 million purchase of NeXT. However, the $3 billion price is still just a tiny
fraction of the companys $150 billion cash reserves, and Beats estimated annual sales of $2
billion represents barely over 1% of Apples $171 billion revenue last year.
The $3 billion purchase price includes Beats Music, the sister company that runs a
subscription streaming music service. In fact, Apples press release mentioned that before the
more well-known headphone business. While some analysts have wondered why Apple
doesnt simply build its own streaming service within iTunes, Cook must believe this deal
gives him a quicker way to catch up with Spotify and others.