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              James Fontanella-Khan

              US corporate finance and deals editor

              James Fontanella-Khan is US corporate finance and deals editor at the Financial Times covering deals across America. Previously he worked on Lex and as a correspondent in Brussels, New Delhi and Mumbai. He started his career at the FT in London on the news desk in 2005. He graduated at Science Po, Paris.

              Along with Arash Massoudi, he is the co-creator of the FT’s premium corporate finance briefing called Due Diligence. To receive the newsletter in your inbox Tuesday to Friday at 5am UK time, sign-up here.

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              • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
                Eli Lilly & Co
                Eli Lilly in advanced talks to buy US cancer biotech for up to $2.5bn

                Scorpion’s drug candidate inhibits a mutation that is a major driver of breast, gynaecological and head and neck cancers

                Eli Lilly logo
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Constellation Energy Group Inc
                Constellation in talks to buy Calpine in near-$30bn US power sector deal

                Negotiations come amid demand surge linked to growth in artificial intelligence technologies

                Constellation Energy operates the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant on the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Maryland
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Media
                Leon Black in talks about backing Dovid Efune’s Telegraph bid

                Billionaire in discussions over funding proposed deal to buy the British newspaper

              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Nippon Steel
                Nippon Steel bets on Trump to salvage $15bn US deal

                Japanese company and target US Steel have also sued the Biden administration and rival Cleveland-Cliffs

                Person walks by Nippon Steel sign
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                US politics & policy
                ‘What choice do they have?’: America’s CEOs bend the knee to Trump

                Even the president-elect’s corporate opponents are rushing to embrace him at Mar-a-Lago

                A montage of Donald Trump, centre, with clockwise from bottom left: Sam Altman, Shou Zi Chew, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Ted Sarandos
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                Nissan Motor Co Ltd
                Nissan and Honda hold merger talks

                The Japanese carmakers are grappling with fast-growing Chinese rivals and sluggish consumer demand for EVs

                The ‘intelligent factory’ at Nissan Motor’s Tochigi plant, the company’s largest in country, around 105km north of Tokyo
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                SoftBank Group Corp
                Japan’s SoftBank pledges $100bn investment in US

                Vow by Masayoshi Son’s investment vehicle is latest sign of how groups are seeking to woo Donald Trump

                Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s billionaire chief executive, stood next to President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday as the duo formally announced the plans
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                News in-depthUS politics & policy
                Will Trump’s new antitrust enforcers help make M&A great again?

                Wall Street is hoping for a less tough approach but the reality could be more complex

                Composite image of Gail Slater (left) and Andrew Ferguson
              • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
                Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
                Is M&A back?

                Will a new administration bring a new approach to anti-trust policy?

              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                News in-depthCryptocurrencies
                The criminal’s ‘go-to cryptocurrency’ has a new friend in the White House

                Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries

                Donald Trump, left, and Howard Lutnick, right
              • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
                Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc
                Walgreens in talks over sale to private equity group Sycamore

                Potential deal highlights mounting distress facing the retail pharmacy industry

                Walgreens pharmacy
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                Daily Telegraph
                Chelsea FC’s Todd Boehly enters Telegraph newspaper auction

                US billionaire’s late move could disrupt bid by media executive Dovid Efune

                Todd Boehly
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                Mergers & Acquisitions
                ‘Merger Monday’ spree signals revival of deals since Trump victory

                US companies ink more than $35bn in transactions as election sends jolt of enthusiasm through industry

                Person holding cellphone with logo of US insurance company Arthur J Gallagher Co. on screen
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                News in-depthAdvertising
                Omnicom aims for a Mad Men comeback with $13bn Interpublic deal

                Tie-up fulfils long-held ambition of chief John Wren as industry fights threat from large tech groups

                Omnicom chief John Wren with logos of Omnicom and InterPublic
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                Mergers & Acquisitions
                Omnicom to buy Interpublic in $13bn deal to create new marketing giant

                All-stock pact is designed to give new advertising group heft to harness rise of AI

                A montage showing the logos of both companies
              • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
                Advertising
                Omnicom and Interpublic in merger talks to become largest advertising group

                A $30bn-plus deal would come as most of the money in the industry is being siphoned off by big tech companies

                IPG logo
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Anti-ESG investing
                New ‘anti-woke’ ETF makes Starbucks its first target

                Azoria Partners launches new fund at Donald Trump’s Florida resort

                People outside a Starbucks store
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                News in-depthUS banks
                Is the Biden-era blockade on US bank M&A finally over?

                Investors and advisers prepare for consolidation among country’s thousands of regional lenders

                Montage of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and corporate logos
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                News in-depthUS foreign policy
                Warren Stephens: the Arkansan Spurs fan Trump is sending to London

                The billionaire history buff and former Clinton backer will be the US president-elect’s man in the UK

                Warren Stephens and Harriet Stephens pose together
              • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
                Special ReportInvesting in America
                How an American steel takeover became a political firestorm

                A Japanese company’s plan to buy US Steel is challenging the country’s long-standing policy towards foreign investment

                A montage image of a factory labelled United States Steel and Nippon Steel against a background of stylised $100 bills and abstract blue architectural elements, set on a bold red background
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                Media
                Telegraph newspaper deal extended until end of year

                Preferred bidder Dovid Efune given at least two more weeks to raise funds for title

                Copies of Daily Telegraph on a rack in a supermarket in London, England
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                Venture Global
                Venture Global launches new LNG plant ahead of IPO

                Gulf Coast producer’s share listing expected to be among biggest in sector

                A liquefied natural gas tanker
              • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
                US financial regulation
                Trump considers tough antitrust advocate for justice department unit

                Gail Slater is ally of JD Vance who had also been in running to chair Federal Trade Commission

                A US flag waves outside the Department of Justice building in Washington
              • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
                Scott Bessent
                Scott Bessent’s fund made biggest returns with bet against Fed

                Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary pick shorted vulnerable assets in 2022 to capitalise on post-pandemic inflation

                Donald Trump, left, listens as investor Scott Bessent speaks on the economy in Asheville, NC
              • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
                Media
                Former UK chancellor Zahawi and billionaire Mansour join bid for Telegraph

                Conservative party veterans join US consortium to buy British newspaper

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