Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week

Noteworthy expenditures of the week
Clockwise from top: Andrey Rudako/Bloomberg; Martin Shields/Alamy; David Cheskin/Press Association; Christie's/Bloomberg

1. Steel magnate Vladimir Lisin’s Universal Cargo Logistics Holding bought almost 75 percent of state-owned Russian Railways’ Freight One cargo unit for $4.2 billion.

2. TMX Group, owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, recommended that shareholders accept a $3.7 billion bid from a group of Canadian banks and pension funds.