Ball to buy Rexam
Rumours surfaced at the start of the year - Ball Corporation is to buy Rexam and sure enough in February a $6.6bn offer was made.
Since that point, Ball has been jumping over more hurdles than an olympic athlete as antitrust investigators look at the deal and potential competition concerns.
The deal was recently approved in Brazil by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) with certain conditions.
Ball has reportedly offered to divest factories to appease EU and US antitrust regulators.
The EU competition authority is scheduled to make a decision on the deal by January 22 but that date has already been pushed back several times.