"We intend to acquire substantially all of the businesses, assets and liabilities of the Barings Group," said Wieger Sietsma, a spokesman for ING.

Q. My understanding is that in the winter-spring of last year you had some offers to acquire substantially all of the company and that Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief executive, basically wouldn't sell.

In April 2009, Macrovision (now Rovi) announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Muze, Inc. in a $16.5 million cash transaction.

The company acquired substantially all the activities (other than those relating to large gas turbines) of General Electric Energy Rentals for total consideration of circa US$212m in 2006.

In September 1992, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of Micro-Dynamics, Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts, a microwave subsystem designer and manufacturer.

- Acquired substantially all of the assets of Applied Intelligence Solutions, LLC (January, 2011)

In May 2001, Corporate Express acquired substantially all of the US Office Products (USOP) North American office products assets, including certain stand-alone furniture businesses.

Blacks said it had been in talks with a number of parties since December 23 with final offers submitted "to acquire substantially all of the trade, assets and brands of the group".

In July 2007, Nokia and Twango announced that Nokia was acquiring substantially all of the assets of Twango.

In January 2006, Radiant acquired substantially all of the assets of Synchronics, Inc., a provider of business management and point of sale software for the retail market, located in Memphis, Tennessee.