The US billionaire Krause family is nearing an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Italian football club Parma, in a move that would make it the latest American investor in Serie A. A deal valuing the club at more than €100m could be reached by the end of the...
Allegro, the leading Polish ecommerce company backed by Cinven and Permira, is planning to go public in what will be the country’s largest-ever ecommerce listing. The company, which will list on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW), is seen as a rival to the likes...
Europe has missed out on the wave of initial public offerings of so-called blank check companies, one of the drivers of equity markets activity in the US this year. To help address this dearth, the London Stock Exchange is reviewing ways to ignite its market for such...
Silver Lake, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and BlackRock are investing $650m in Klarna, valuing the Swedish “buy-now, pay-later” group at more than $11bn ahead of a likely stock market listing by the most valuable private fintech in Europe. Silver Lake, the US...
Blackstone Group Inc. is pouring more cash into mobile-home parks, a corner of the commercial real estate market that is holding up in the pandemic. The alternative asset manager is in exclusive talks to acquire roughly 40 parks from Summit Communities for about $550... 