1. Chesapeake Energy (CHK) will sell assets including portions of oil and natural gas fields in Texas and New Mexico for $6.9 billion.

2. In a deal doubling its crude production, Houston-based Plains Exploration & Production (PXP) will acquire BP’s (BP) and Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDS.A) stakes in a group of Gulf of Mexico oil fields for $6.1 billion.

3. Morgan Stanley (MS) will pay Citigroup (C) $1.9 billion for an additional 14 percent stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, their brokerage joint venture. It will pay $4.73 billion for the remaining 35 percent by 2015. The deal values Smith Barney at $13.5 billion.

4. Canada’s largest security company, Garda World Security (GW), agreed to be taken private in a $1.1 billion deal led by its founder and CEO Stéphan Crétier.

5. India’s state-owned energy explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp. will pay Hess (HES) $1 billion for a stake in Azerbaijan’s largest oil fields and an associated pipeline.

6. Danish shipping group A.P. Moeller-Maersk (AMKBY) is buying a 37.5 percent stake in Russia’s No. 1 container-terminal operator for about $860 million.

7. ARA Asset Management (ARA), the property company backed by billionaire Li Ka-shing, is seeking about $649 million in the first dual-currency—yuan and Singapore dollar—IPO in Singapore, say two people with knowledge of the matter.

8. Haier Group (HRELY) bid $564 million for New Zealand’s Fisher & Paykel Appliances Holdings (FPA), as China’s No. 1 appliance maker expands globally.

9. Indian software exporter Infosys (INFY) will purchase Swiss management consulting company Lodestone Holding for $349 million to diversify its business.

10. A 21-acre island off Ireland’s west coast that once belonged to John Lennon is on sale for $384,000. The Beatle reportedly paid $2,700 for the property in 1967 and hoped to retire there.

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