Insights and Stories on Asset Sales

Bayer wins EU approval for Monsanto buy

Mar. 21, 2018 at 10:21 am CDT

Brussels | Reuters — German conglomerate Bayer won EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its US$62.5 billion buy of U.S. peer Monsanto, the latest in a trio of mega-mergers that will reshape the agrochemicals industry. The tie-up is set to create a company with control of more than a quarter […]

Brazilian antitrust agency approves Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Feb. 7, 2018 at 4:44 pm CST

By Bruno Federowski Leonardo Goy

Bayer offers asset sales for EU approval of Monsanto deal

Feb. 5, 2018 at 1:54 pm CST

By Foo Yun Chee Ludwig Burger

EU review of Bayer’s Monsanto bid postponed further

Jan. 29, 2018 at 7:40 pm CST

By Foo Yun Chee Ludwig Burger

Bayer sees more antitrust asset sales ahead

Oct. 26, 2017 at 8:48 pm CDT

By Reuters

JBS gets nod from Brazil court to divest assets

Jul. 13, 2017 at 8:40 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — JBS SA has received permission from a Brazilian appeals court to sell assets as the world’s largest meatpacker copes with fallout from a corruption scandal involving the family that controls it. In a statement on Thursday, JBS said it had learned that Brazil’s Regional Federal […]

By Reuters

BASF ready to snatch seed bargains as rivals sell assets

Jun. 29, 2017 at 4:27 pm CDT

Ludwigshafen, Germany | Reuters — BASF will consider buying seed assets that rivals are putting on the block to win antitrust approval for tie-ups, saying bargain prices could persuade BASF to overcome its traditional reluctance to expand into the seeds industry. Sources familiar with BASF’s thinking have said that competition […]

By Ludwig Burger Patricia Weiss

Louis Dreyfus ring-fences some units, considers options

Jan. 29, 2016 at 1:04 pm CST

London | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Commodities is ring-fencing its crop inputs, metals, juice and dairy units and is considering options ranging from joint ventures to the sale of certain assets, a senior company source said. In December, Reuters reported the trade house had been seeking buyers for its juice […]

By Dmitry Zhdannikov