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  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Boots UK Ltd
    Walgreens halts sale of Boots chain citing tougher financial conditions

    Owner of UK pharmacy and beauty group blames market turmoil for bids below its expectations

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Toshiba Corp
    KKR takes back seat in Toshiba bidding process

    Move leaves rival Bain in lead position to take Japanese conglomerate private

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Due Diligence
    How not to value a company in crisis Premium content

    Plus, the legacy of an Italian tycoon and a South African internet group’s bet on Tencent pays off a little too much

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    Europe’s Spacs scramble for targets as market hit by hangover

    The region’s largest blank-cheque vehicle Pegasus Europe is among those seeking a company to merge with

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s plans for Spac deal suffer further blow after subpoenas

    Federal grand jury scrutinises blank-cheque company Digital World Acquisition

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    CareTech Holdings PLC
    CareTech to be taken private by founders in £1.2bn deal

    UK social care provider has benefited from rising demand during the pandemic

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Naspers Ltd
    Naspers to sell more of Tencent stake in bid to revive shares

    South African group and its Dutch-listed subsidiary take new measures to ignite stock

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Exchange traded funds
    Mirae aims for rapid growth in Australia on buying ETF Securities

    Acquisition lifts Korean asset manager’s ETF assets above $85bn, making it 14th-largest provider

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Due Diligence
    Deutsche Bank enters the WhatsApp chat

    Plus, the regulatory hurdles testing Broadcom’s $69bn VMware takeover and DD investigates the Revlon meme stock mystery

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    UK ‘minded to accept’ conditions on £2.6bn deal for defence specialist Ultra

    Cobham’s bid to take over rival moves a step closer to approval during consultation into security concerns

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Broadcom Inc
    Broadcom’s $69bn VMware deal set for lengthy EU antitrust investigation

    Brussels competition regulators plan detailed probe in move that will delay acquisition

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    LexToshiba Corp
    Toshiba: weak yen strengthens hand of foreign bidders Premium content

    The currency’s plunge against the dollar makes Japanese companies and assets very cheap for overseas buyers

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Due Diligence
    Crypto’s John Pierpont Morgan Premium content

    Plus, inside the UK’s efforts to keep Arm within its borders and Mars’s shift from candy bars to cat food

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    LexAmundi
    Amundi: Europe’s heavyweight champ can make right connections Premium content

    European fund management remains fragmented and is ripe for consolidation

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
    Democrats question Reckitt Benckiser’s plan to sell baby formula unit

    US lawmakers warn a deal with private equity group could ‘shallow out’ market already gripped by critical shortages

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Frasers Group
    Frasers increases Hugo Boss stake to €900mn

    Sports Direct owner takes direct holding in German fashion brand to almost 5%

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Due Diligence
    The fees behind private equity’s ‘best discovery ever’

    Plus, India’s market regulator fines the country’s most powerful tycoon and Kellogg’s plans a historic break-up

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Accor SA
    Accor and Hoxton boutique hotel venture valued at more than €2bn ahead of deal

    Plans to sell stake to Qatari consortium shows confidence in high end of travel market

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Kellogg Co
    Kellogg’s to split into three separate food businesses

    Chief says US group studied past break-ups in its own industry and by other companies such as GE

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Property sector
    Singaporean fund GIC strikes €2.1bn deal with The Student Hotel

    Dutch pension fund manager APG to increase stake in European student accommodation and hotel group

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    The Big Read
    Selling to yourself: the private equity groups that buy companies they own

    Private equity groups are increasingly buying companies that they already own. But critics point to conflicts of interest within these deals that allow managers to reap great financial rewards

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    JAB Holdings Ltd
    JAB tightens grip on US pet care market with insurance deal

    European private equity firm acquires stakes in two leading insurers for $1.4bn

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Tidjane Thiam
    Tidjane Thiam’s Spac in merger talks with life sciences group Human Longevity

    Californian group that offers expensive tests in effort to prolong lives was selected after Pimco scuppered earlier deal

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Pfizer Inc
    Pfizer buys stake in French vaccine maker Valneva

    US pharma group to pay €90.5mn for 8% in deal that will boost joint Lyme disease programme

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
    Private equity groups make £1.6bn takeover approach for Euromoney

    Demand for data services has helped UK-listed company recover from pandemic

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