15 Biggest Acquisitions Of All Time

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8. Merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading Company

Total purchase price (in billions of dollars): 95

Total purchases price adjusted for inflation (in billions of dollars): 129

Shell (NYSE:RDS) may be one of the biggest multinational companies in the world, and among the top 5 in terms of revenue, but it went through a sticky patch in 2004. Two companies were combined to create Royal Dutch Shell, which was done to improve management, which was blamed for a crisis which resulted in the company overstating oil reserves.

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