Private equity breaks 40-year record with $500bn deals

Private equity breaks 40-year record with $500bn deals

Private equity firms have had their busiest six months since the start of records four decades ago, entering into transactions worth more than $ 500 billion and bringing global mergers and acquisitions to an everyday high. Buy-out groups have announced 6,298...
Singapore’s sovereign fund invests $1bn in Grifols’s U.S. unit

Singapore’s sovereign fund invests $1bn in Grifols’s U.S. unit

Singapore’s wealth fund GIC agreed to invest around 1 billion dollars in Biomat, a U.S.-based plasma collection company owned by Grifols, thus becoming a strategic investor in the Spanish pharmaceutical company, Grifols said on Wednesday. GIC will have a minority...