by Sebastian | Nov 17, 2020 | DPEC, GPEC, News, UKPEC
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will this week vie with German media group Bertelsmann to buy Simon & Schuster in an auction that has become a battle for scale between two of the world’s biggest book publishers. ViacomCBS is expecting final bids for its Simon &...
by Sebastian | Nov 17, 2020 | News, UKPEC
The Co-operative Bank said it had received a takeover approach from an unidentified private equity bidder, the latest in a flurry of potential deals in the struggling European financial sector. The UK lender announced on Tuesday that it had received a non-binding...
by Sebastian | Nov 17, 2020 | News, UKPEC
KPMG helped a US private equity firm force the insolvency of a UK-listed business to acquire the company without the burden of its £100m pension scheme, according to a case brought against the professional services firm by the accounting regulator. The Financial...
by Sebastian | Nov 16, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Today Aspen Dental Management announced it has reached an agreement with Sun Capital Partners, Inc. to acquire ClearChoice Management Services, which provides comprehensive practice support services to the nationwide network of ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers. With...
by Sebastian | Nov 14, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Profitability at Britain’s largest craft brewer fell back last year, despite a 25 per cent rise in sales to £215 million, as its fast growth came at a high price. Brewdog experienced an increase in overheads as it expanded its bar network in Britain and overseas, the...
by Sebastian | Nov 14, 2020 | News, UKPEC
The owners of the petrol stations business EG Group have raised expensive debt-like financing from sovereign wealth and pension funds, handing them hundreds of millions of pounds in fresh cash that could help fund their buyout of the UK supermarket chain Asda....
