acquisitions

SINGAPORE (Oct 10): Brokers are unanimously positive on City Developments' potential offer for Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, given that the acquisition will be value accretive to the group.

SINGAPORE (Sept 27): ValueMax, the operator of pawnbroking and moneylending services, is purchasing all of Sengkang Pawnshop’s 2,470,000 shares for a consideration of $3.6 million.

SINGAPORE (Aug 18): Sovereign wealth fund GIC says it has joined a consortium of Asia-based investors to acquire a Hong Kong-based insurance company, MassMutual Asia, from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for a total of consideration of about U

SINGAPORE (Aug 17): The manager of Ascott Residence Trust (ART), Ascott Residence Trust Management, says the REIT’s acquisition of DoubleTree by Hilton New York – Times Square South in New York, US, has been completed.

SINGAPORE (Aug 14): Spackman Entertainment Group has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the proposed acquisition of 100% of the total voting shares in the company with full ownership of Take Pictures, a motion picture production company

SINGAPORE (Aug 11): Singapore’s three local banks – DBS Group Holdings, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp and United Overseas Bank – have expanded regionally over the last couple of decades, putting them in a stronger position to gather onshore assets fo

SINGAPORE (Aug 8): DBS Vickers Securities is maintaining its “hold” call on Cosco Shipping International (Singapore) with an unchanged target price of 27 cents after the group last week reported a narrowing of its 2Q losses to $20.8 million.

SINGAPORE (Aug 7): CIMB Research is maintaining its “hold” rating on Far East Hospitality Trust with an unchanged price target of 66 cents on an “as-it-is” basis, after the REIT’s 2Q17 results came in broadly in line with the research house’s

SINGAPORE (July 20): CITIC Envirotech says its joint venture company Baiyi Environment has acquired a 100% and 70% stake in Jiangyin Zhounan Wastewater Treatment and Jiangyin Huahong Wastewater Treatment, respectively, for a total of RMB59.5 million ($12