Deals
M&A News: Unilever, Berkshire Hathaway, Marine Harvest, Cermaq, Bayer, Conceptus
Noteworthy expenditures of the week
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1. Unilever, which makes Lipton tea and Dove soap, will pay as much as $5.4 billion to raise its stake in Hindustan Unilever to 75 percent.
2. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will pay $2.1 billion for the 20 percent it doesn’t own of IMC International Metalworking, an Israeli maker of aerospace and auto manufacturing gear.