Croda International Plc agreed to buy Iberchem for 820 million euros ($920 million) as Europe’s largest cosmetic-ingredients maker expands into the hotly contested market of fragrances. The maker of sunblock chemicals and pharmaceutical additives plans to raise 600...
The remaining assets of Wirecard’s core European business have been sold off to Spanish lender Banco Santander, following an “intense investor process” during the insolvency proceedings of the collapsed fintech firm. Santander will acquire the assets of Wirecard’s...
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 &...
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...
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... 