Crystal Palace co-owner John Textor said on Friday he is trying to sell his majority stake in the club, which he owns 45% of through his company Eagle Football Holdings, and has appointed the Raine Group to find a buyer...
Shares of China Evergrande’s EV unit soar after liquidators’ stake sale deal
Shares of China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group more than doubled on Monday as trade resumed after the company said liquidators had agreed on behalf of key shareholders to sell a stake in the electric vehicle (EV)...
Spanish bank BBVA seeks authorisation of hostile takeover bid for Sabadell
Spanish bank BBVA on Friday asked stock market supervisor CNMV to authorise its 12.23-billion-euro ($13.29 billion) hostile takeover offer for smaller rival Sabadell, a potential tie-up of lenders that Madrid opposes...
Julius Baer, EFG stopped takeover talks after initial approach, sources say
Swiss private bank Julius Baer held talks with EFG International about a potential takeover in recent months but the discussions have stopped, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The two Swiss banks were...
Redcentric says in talks for sale to Milan-listed Wiit
British IT services group Redcentric is in the early stages of talks over a sale of the company to Milan-listed Wiit SpA, it said on Friday. The news followed a Reuters report that it was working with investment bank...
Italy sets terms for RaiWay stake sale, TV towers tie-up
Italy has approved a decree enabling state broadcaster RAI to sell a stake in its tower unit RaiWay, as long as the disposal is compatible with a tie-up of RaiWay with rival EI Towers, a government source told Reuters...
Coventry Building Society to buy Co-op Bank for $990 mln
Britain’s Coventry Building Society will buy Co-operative Bank for 780 million pounds ($989.9 million) in cash, the two companies said in a joint statement on Friday. The latest attempted tie-up among UK lenders...
French tycoon Xavier Niel explores buyout bid for Millicom
French billionaire Xavier Niel is considering buying out telecom firm Millicom International Cellular S.A., his investment vehicle Atlas Investissement said on Thursday. The company is exploring financing options to...
Hargreaves Lansdown’s biggest shareholder open to take company private, sources say
Peter Hargreaves, the biggest shareholder in UK retail investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, is open to taking the company private and has held talks with investors recently about a transaction, three people familiar...
Britain set to scrap NatWest share sale ahead of July election, sources say
Britain is poised to scrap a milestone sale of shares in NatWest Group to the general public, three sources familiar with the matter said late on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a July general...
Hess-Chevron merger vote appears ripe for narrow approval
Hess Corp CEO John Hess has until Tuesday to quell a rebellion by shareholders over his handling of what could turn out to be one of the largest mergers in oil industry history: a proposed $53 billion sale of the oil...
Google acquiring HubSpot would bolster bid to challenge Microsoft
Google parent Alphabet’s potential acquisition of HubSpot, a U.S. marketing software maker with a market value of $31 billion, would boost its ability to compete against Microsoft in offering cloud-based...
