Current owner Dean Hoyle announced early last month that he had agreed to sell a 75% stake in the club to lifelong Terriers fan Phil Hodgkinson but the EFL have not yet approved the deal.

International Paper has scrapped plans for an €8.9bn takeover offer for Dublin-headquartered packaging giant Smurfit Kappa, blaming a lack of engagement from its board.

Kraft Heinz has made a $143bn (€134.5bn) offer for Unilever in what would be the largest-ever takeover in the food or beverage industry, opening a campaign to create a consumer-goods giant with household names from Dove soap to Heinz ketchup.

In the US, AT&T must persuade regulators that its multi-billion-dollar takeover of Time Warner will not give one organisation too much power.

Cash and carry group Booker saw sales boosted by its recently acquired Budgens and Londis chains as they helped offset the impact of falling food prices and a hit to consumer demand before the Brexit vote.

Bayer has made an unsolicited takeover offer for Monsanto in a bold attempt by the German company to snatch the last independent global seeds producer and become the world’s biggest supplier of farm chemicals.

SABMiller, the brewer that is due to be bought by Anheuser-Busch InBev later this year, reported a decline in full-year profit as it was saddled with charges related to some African operations and costs associated with the takeover.

Sanofi says it has sent a letter to Medivation’s board, urging the company to engage in negotiations regarding the French drugmaker’s unsolicited $9.3bn (€8.1bn) takeover offer and threatening to go directly to shareholders if talks don’t begin.

A £6.4m (€8.1m) takeover bid for Irish exploration company Petroceltic from a firm owned by the company’s largest shareholder Worldview Economic Recovery Fund has lapsed.

Pfizer has decided to kill its planned $150bn takeover of Allergan in Dublin.

US hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide yesterday received a higher buyout offer from a consortium led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group that could derail Marriott International’s planned takeover of Starwood.

Petroceltic’s main independent shareholder is considering a takeover offer for the troubled Irish exploration firm.

Shares in Irish-founded packaging company, Powerflute jumped by nearly 2% at one point yesterday following an indicative takeover approach from US private equity house, Madison Dearborn Partners.

Specialist building materials provider Kingspan has delivered a significantly better-than-expected full-year forecast, suggesting its 2015 profits should increase by nearly 70%, despite global economic confidence wavering.

Analysts are anticipating a near €100m jump in annual trading profits for Kingspan, this year, following what the company itself called “an exceptionally strong start to the year”.

Shares in Dublin-based exploration firm, San Leon Energy jumped more than 12%, at one point, yesterday on the back of the company confirming it had been approached with a potential takeover offer.

Aer Lingus shareholders have voted in favour of four resolutions which approve IAG's takeover bid.

IAG's take over bid of Aer Lingus looks set to be approved by shareholders today.

Stephen Ross, owner of the NFL team Miami Dolphins, is reportedly considering a £5bn deal to take control of Formula One.

The Dáil is set to vote on the sale of the Government's stake in Aer Lingus today.

The most powerful independent consumer voice in the country has voiced an 11th-hour warning about the future of Aer Lingus, as the Government late last night endorsed the takeover offer by Willie Walsh’s IAG Group.

International Airlines Group (IAG) looks set to take over Aer Lingus after the Government gave the green light to a €1.4bn bid.