Bahrain-based investment firm Asma Capital has agreed to buy a stake in the water business of private United Arab Emirates utility company Utico in a deal worth $147 million, the companies said on Sunday.
1 min read · 03 January 2017
Braeburn Pharmaceuticals Inc filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering, seven months after its implant to treat opioid addiction was approved in the United States, Reuters reported.
1 min read · 03 January 2017
The owner of Brazilian juice maker Natural One SA has sold a minority stake to Brazilian investment firm Gávea Investimentos Ltda for an undisclosed price, sources told Reuters.
1 min read · 03 January 2017
Britain avoided a collapse in mergers and acquisitions activity after the shock Brexit vote as foreign companies used sterling's spectacular devaluation against the U.S. dollar to snap up British companies, Thomson Reuters data shows.
4 min read · 03 January 2017
Fresh from a $210 million deal to buy an Australian copper mine, Melbourne-based private equity group EMR Capital is on the hunt for further acquisitions, possibly in Australia or Asia, of high-demand commodities assets, its chief executive said.
2 min read · 30 December 2016
Brazilian travel agency CVC Brasil Operadora e Agencia de Viagens SA (CVCB3.SA) will buy smaller rival Experimento for 41 million reais ($13 million), the company said in a securities filing on Thursday.
1 min read · 29 December 2016
Peabody Energy Corp said on Thursday the deadline for creditors to join financing deals aimed at bringing the largest U.S. coal miner out of bankruptcy had been extended after large investors sued to slow the process.
2 min read · 29 December 2016
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) is negotiating a deal to acquire Swiss biotechnology company Actelion Ltd (ATLN.S) that would separate its commercialized portfolio from its research and development (R&D) assets, sources told Reuters.
1 min read · 29 December 2016
(Reuters) Handbag and accessories maker and retailer Kate Spade & Co (KATE.N), under pressure from an activist investor, is exploring a sale and is working with a bank to sound out possible buyers, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
2 min read · 28 December 2016
Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC (CD&R) is close to securing $6 billion from investors for its latest private equity fund, just a little more than two months after it began fundraising with a $8.5 billion target, sources told Reuters.
2 min read · 28 December 2016
