Our ranking formula ignores the original amount invested in a deal (as it is often undisclosed), instead weighing most heavily the market capitalization of a venture-backed company on the close of its first day of trading or the purchase price in an acquisition.
The acquisition follows Paypal's purchase of another smartphone-based payment service, Zong, last year.
Sunil Garg, a banking analyst at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, said in a note that HSBC would probably be able to fund the acquisition internally, with the purchase representing 3.5% of its asset base, or an 80-basis-point impact on its Tier 1 capital ratio.
That acquisition follows Jamestown's recent purchase in Berkeley, Calif.
Best Buy's acquisition of Mindshift compliments its 2002 purchase of Geek Squad, a provider of IT support services to consumers, according to Jeff Roster, a retail analyst for research firm Gartner Inc.
The bank announced the purchase on Friday, making it the largest ever foreign acquisition of Russian commercial real estate.
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Silver Bay intends to use the proceeds from the offering to purchase additional single-family properties in accordance with its acquisition strategy.
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The acquisition of Lotus will be accounted for as a purchase business combination.
Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.
The case involved the acquisition of the target company TSC Industries by National Industries through the purchase of a controlling interest.
If Evercore or JPMorgan advises a corporation on making an acquisition, the standard fee is about two per cent of the purchase price.
The acquisition further strengthens Tesco's digital entertainment offer, following the purchase of movie and TV streaming service blinkbox in 2011 and personalised internet radio service WE7 in June 2012.
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The deals included GSW's purchase of 7, 000 apartments in the Berlin area and Deutsche Wohnen's acquisition of 23, 400 apartments from Barclays Capital, bringing its total to more than 80, 000.
"We have used these reserves before, but never on this scale, and no purchase ever made by the National Gallery has begun to approach the magnitude of this acquisition, " Dr Penny said.
While analysts had speculated NAB would jettison Michigan National and use the funds to back an acquisition in Britain, Mr Cicutto played down the need to splurge on a purchase in that market.
The Conservatives' assembly leader Andrew RT Davies said Helvetic's decision was "a wake-up call for a Welsh government who are hell-bent on using taxpayer money to fund the purchase of the airport, without presenting a convincing case for how they will make the acquisition work for the Welsh public".
The joint venture will also purchase a 25% interest in the Whitgift Centre, following completion of Hammerson's conditional acquisition agreement with Royal London, which had a 155-year head lease on it.
This includes a merger of two publicly-traded firms, the acquisition of a privately-held company by a publicly-traded one, and the purchase of publicly-traded firm by private equity.
Sun's applications server strategy became somewhat hazy after the acquisition, when, as a spin-off of America Online's (AOL)purchase of Netscape Communications, Sun acquired Netscape's application server software.
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If the reasons behind making an acquisition include corporate synergies, solving logistical setbacks, or making the company more valuable in general, a purchase would make much more sense than simply giving away the cash via dividends or share repurchases.
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