Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has agreed to sell its Japanese consumer healthcare business to U.S. investment fund Blackstone Group for 242 billion yen ($2.3 billion), Japan’s largest drugmaker said on Monday. Takeda Consumer Healthcare Company, which makes...
The board of BT Group is preparing to defend it against takeover approaches from industry rivals and buyout firms after the suspension of its dividend prompted its shares to slump to their lowest level in more than a decade. Sky News has learnt that Britain’s...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is considering raising a venture and growth fund of around $2 billion, a move that would make it a bigger player in the competitive world of technology investing, according to people familiar with the matter. A $2 billion fund for investing in...
The Formula One team founded by racing legend Sir Frank Williams has been bought by a US private equity firm. Williams Grand Prix Engineering, which has been struggling with a run of poor performance on the race circuit, announced Dorilton Capital was buying it for...
Survival has become the sole focus of many British businesses. One of the areas of the economy hardest hit by the lockdown is the high street. Many of the midsized companies under threat are owned by private-equity funds, which went on a decade-long spending spree in... 