Michael J De La Merced

Under the merger agreement's terms, Anthem is obligated to pay Cigna a $1.85 billion breakup fee

Much of 2016 proved to be a less ebullient time for the once red-hot start-up market

Son, a Japanese mogul, struck another big pledge after meeting with President-elect Donald J Trump: to invest $50 billion in the United States

Mayer had planned to spin off Yahoo!'s 15 per cent stake in Alibaba, bundled with a small-business services unit, into a new company called Aabaco

It would be one of the biggest ever takeovers in the health care industry

The data highlights the large gap between Silicon Valley's diversity ambitions and reality

Elkann has run the $12 billion Agnelli family investment firm Exor for more than a decade

Since the beginning of 2013, more than 20 tech start-ups have held three rounds of funding within a year and a half

Two months ago, Avon Products fell prey to a phantom buyout bid by an unknown entity trying to pass itself off as a well-known private equity firm

It's a stellar day for any bank and firmly cements Goldman's lead atop the rankings of merger advisors

Shell has invested tens of billions of dollars in liquefied natural gas production plants, storage terminals and related systems

Alibaba disclosed on Friday that it had received a request from the SEC for more information about the clash with China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce

When the spin-off is complete and Yahoo! has shed its stake in the Chinese e-commerce giant, it is more likely to become the hunted rather than the hunter