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...It has also prompted lawmakers in both red and blue states to introduce so-called “Taylor Swift” bills aimed at reining in the ticketing giant....
...Amid New Orleans festivities, rainmakers wonder if the party is over for Delaware Delaware, Inc. may be the enterprise now under the most intense activist threat....
Plus, the Body Shop faces a financial cleanse and Japan inks a giant semiconductor deal
...The merger would have marked the largest deal of the year....
...The moves are the biggest overhaul in Google parent Alphabet’s structure since the merger of its DeepMind and Google Brain AI units a year ago....
...Johnson & Johnson has struck a deal to buy medical device maker Shockwave Medical for $13.1bn, as the healthcare giant puts cash to work from the spin-off of its consumer health arm to pursue acquisitions...
...Except, apparently, at the European consumer giant Unilever....
...Cigna is in talks to merge with Humana in a deal that would create a US health insurance giant worth $140bn and provide a significant test for antitrust authorities, according to people briefed about the...
...Adobe will pay Figma $1bn in a termination fee under the terms of the merger agreement. Shares in Adobe were up 3 per cent on Monday....
...While the deal would give Boeing the opportunity to fix Spirit’s problems, he added the US aerospace giant “has its own issues and has hardly covered itself with glory when it comes to execution of late”...
...talks to create Australian LNG giant (FT) Carlyle sets new profit and growth targets as private equity firm woos investors (FT) Decline of the star stockpicker: investors pull $150bn from equity hedge...
...Frank Slootman has stepped down as chief executive of software giant Snowflake, a move announced alongside weaker than forecast earnings....
...The Max streaming platform, which will merge content from Discovery Plus and HBO Max, is seen by executives at the US media giant as crucial to driving and diversifying profits globally....
...The merger talks had received substantial behind-the-scenes support from the US and Japanese governments....
...Bare-knuckle brawling Fund giant Pimco says cracks in the booming asset class that is private credit could appear as soon as this year, Bloomberg reports....
...The software giant, which will pay Figma $1bn in a termination fee under the terms of the merger agreement, had been battling EU and UK regulators to little avail....
$12.5bn takeover of Origin Energy in balance ahead of vote this month on deal
...Bloomberg) Fund managers urge European regulators to mirror US move to T+1 (FT) Thomas Cook owner Fosun to sell brand to Poland’s eSky (SKY News) UK government vows to protect litigation funding that helped sub-postmasters...
...Joel Bamford will rejoin the Competition and Markets Authority as executive director for mergers. He was previously at Fingleton, a regulatory advisory firm....
...Macy’s has travelled a rough road for nine years or so, to put it gently, as department stores got shouldered out of shoppers’ budgets by Amazon and fast-fashion giants....
...The huge price that Adobe is willing to pay for San Francisco-based Figma has been seen by critics of the deal as an effort to quash the software giant’s most promising new rival in decades....
...The FTC is suing to stop the big Albertson’s-Kroger grocery merger. I’m not sure what to think about this....
...Few outside the mahogany corridors of Manhattan’s legal elite are aware that Citigroup, the struggling US bank in the midst of a giant round of lay-offs, is the most dominant service provider to the legal...
...He defended his decision to sell out to a confectionery giant whose products he had vowed to disrupt....
...MIKE MAYO: The merger between Citi and Travellers is one of the worst big bank mergers in history....
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