U.S. soft drinks company Coca-Cola’s proposed sale of Costa Coffee is at risk of collapsing, with the company holding last-ditch talks this weekend with private equity firm TDR Capital in an effort to salvage the...
Law firms Winston & Strawn, Taylor Wessing in talks to merge
U.S. law firm Winston & Strawn and the UK’s Taylor Wessing are in talks to merge, in what would be the latest large-scale transatlantic law firm combination. Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing UK...
Sweden’s Sobi to buy US biotech Arthrosi for up to $1.5 billion to boost gout pipeline
Drugmaker Swedish Orphan Biovitrum said on Saturday it had agreed to acquire U.S.-based biotechnology company Arthrosi Therapeutics for up to $1.5 billion to strengthen its portfolio of gout treatments. Sobi will pay...
Azul wins court nod for debt restructuring, American and United to invest
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday approved Azul’s debt restructuring, allowing the Brazilian airline to slash more than $2 billion in debt and raise capital through a new equity rights offering and investment from...
Crypto giant Tether tests Agnelli family resolve with all cash bid for Juventus
The Agnelli family has no intention of selling Juventus to crypto group Tether or anyone else, sources close to the family’s holding company Exor said, after Tether bid for Italy’s most historically...
China’s Jiangxi Copper sweetens bid for UK-listed SolGold to $1.13 billion
SolGold said on Friday it was “minded to recommend” an improved offer from its top shareholder, Jiangxi Copper that values the gold and copper miner at about 842 million pounds ($1.13 billion), amid a global...
Berlin eyes TenneT Germany majority stake, Boersen-Zeitung says
The German government is in early deliberations to acquire a majority stake in TenneT’s German power grid operations after agreeing in principle to take a 25.1% stake, newspaper Boersen-Zeitung reported on Friday...
Harbour Energy to acquire North Sea assets for $170 million, shares rise 6%
Harbour Energy said on Friday it had agreed to acquire all the subsidiaries of Waldorf Energy Partners and Waldorf Production in the UK North Sea fields, currently in administration, for $170 million, sending its shares...
UK’s Aberdeen to acquire $2 billion of US closed-end assets
British money manager Aberdeen said on Friday it would acquire the management of nine U.S.-based closed-end funds with assets totalling 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion), part of an ongoing drive to expand in the U.S...
Mexico Nears Approval of Billionaire’s Bid for Banamex Stake
Mexican financial authorities are close to approving an offer by billionaire Fernando Chico Pardo to buy a 25% stake in Citigroup Inc.’s Mexican retail-banking unit, Banamex, paving the way to list the business as soon...
Generali and France’s BPCE scrap plans to merge asset management units
Italy’s biggest insurer Generali and French bank BPCE said on Thursday they had dropped plans to merge their asset management businesses, in the absence of conditions necessary to make the deal viable. Generali in...
Banco BPM CEO says no talks with Credit Agricole, nothing on table with MPS
Banco BPM Chief Executive Giuseppe Castagna said on Thursday his bank had not examined any deal with France’s Credit Agricole and had nothing on the table regarding Monte dei Paschi di Siena, though any future...
