Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week

Noteworthy expenditures of the week
Bloomberg(2)

1. Nestlé will pay $11.9 billion for Pfizer’s infant-nutrition unit and may sell as much as $1.8 billion of the assets to address antitrust concerns in countries including Mexico, say people with knowledge of the matter.

2. Russia’s No. 2 mobile-phone operator, MegaFon, will pay owners TeliaSonera, AF Telecom, and Altimo $5.2 billion in dividends and pursue an IPO in London.