THE BIG TAKEOVERS

£24bn Japan’s Softbank snaps up tech firm ARM £13.8bn

Foreign consortium buys National Grid gas network £12bn America’s 21st Century Fox bid for Sky £9.3bn US firm Vantiv buys payments pioneer Worldpay £3bn American Blackstone bid for Pay safe £2.1bn Canadian’s SNC-Lavalin offer for engineer WS Atkins