Nikola Corp. is exploring options to stave off a cash crunch, including potentially selling parts or all of the company, according to people familiar with the matter. Other possibilities under consideration include...
Unilever Is Smart to Spin Off Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum
Unilever Plc is cutting the fat — in every sense. Chief Executive Officer Hein Schumacher plans to spin off its ice-cream business, including the Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s brands, to focus on higher growth categories...
Busy Bee Airways challenges liquidation of Go First in NCLAT
Busy Bee Airways Pvt Ltd, one of the bidders for the grounded airline Go First, has approached the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to challenge the airline’s liquidation. On 20 January the National...
Pune court temporarily blocks termination of trademark pacts in Kirloskar dispute
A Pune district court has temporarily restrained Kirloskar Proprietary Ltd (KPL) from terminating its trademark licence and user agreements with Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL). The court’s decision, made on 9...
NCLT rejects Akshay Kumar’s insolvency plea against edtech Cue Learn
The National Company Law Tribunal’s (NCLT) Delhi bench has dismissed Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s plea to initiate insolvency proceedings against ed-tech company Cue Learn Pvt. Ltd. Kumar had filed a plea...
Brazil’s Ethanol King Sells $1.5 Billion Vale Stake to Cut Debt
Billionaire Rubens Ometto’s conglomerate Cosan SA is giving up its stake in mining giant Vale SA, ending its bet on a mining investment in order to pay down debt. Cosan sold 173 million shares in a deal worth nearly 9...
Universal Plans US Share Sale for Pershing Square Stake
Universal Music Group NV has agreed to plan a US share sale by Sept. 15, in order to fulfill an agreement with billionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square. The Amsterdam-listed entertainment company will use...
Adani Group offloads 13.51% stake in Adani Wilmar
Shares of Adani Wilmar remained flat on Thursday, January 16, even as other Adani Group stocks witnessed gains. The muted response in Adani Wilmar’s stock came after Adani Commodities LLP, a promoter entity of the...
Partners Group, Brookfield, Macquarie, Actis show interest to invest $200 mn in Excitel
A raft of investors including Switzerland-based Partners Group AG and Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc have signed non-disclosure agreements (NDA) to potentially invest in internet services provider Excitel...
Adani Realty in talks to takeover Emaar India to boost realty biz
Adani Group is in advanced talks with Dubai-based developer Emaar Group to acquire a majority stake in its Indian business for ₹4,000-5,000 crore, two people aware of the matter said. “It (the deal) will be for 70...
Uruguay’s DLocal CEO Eyes Acquisition, Denies Fintech Is On Sale
Payment services provider DLocal Ltd. is analyzing whether to buy a smaller fintech rival this year after the company itself was the target of takeover proposals, Chief Executive Officer Pedro Arnt said in an interview...
TikTok’s US future in limbo: Billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty proposes acquisition–Will ByteDance say ‘yes’?
TikTok is facing a potential ban in the United States due to national security concerns. Alarms have raised alarms over the app’s data privacy practices, fearing that user data collected by TikTok could be...
