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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

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Constellation Energy Group Inc
    Constellation Energy to buy Calpine in $27bn deal as AI fuels power demand

    Purchase comes as US electricity system grapples with historic rise in power demand

    Aerial view of Constellation’s Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant  on the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Maryland
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Russia
    Russian court approves scandal-hit Wildberries merger

    Two people were killed in September shootings at headquarters of retailer co-founded by country’s richest woman

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    LexCalpine Corp
    Stars align for Constellation’s AI-fuelled power bet Premium content

    An IPO would probably have needed to price the shares at a discount to peers with longer histories as listed companies

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    EU eastern tensions
    Hungarian energy bid under review over Russia concerns, says Romanian minister

    Bucharest could mirror Spain’s recent decision to block a takeover on security grounds, says Sebastian Burduja

    Viktor Orbán, left, and Vladimir Putin in front of Russian flags before giving a joint press statement at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia in July 2024
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    BlackRock’s private equity pain Premium content

    Why Meta tapped UFC’s chief for its board and corporates start the year with historic bond issuance

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Mining
    China’s Zijin in takeover talks for lithium miner

    Chinese businesses continue to establish dominant foothold in fast-growing sector for battery supply chain

    A truck transports mined materials on the excavated terrain of the Veliki Krivelj open pit copper mine
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Japanese business & finance
    7-Eleven owner’s sharp profit fall adds to takeover pressure

    Seven & i operating profit drops 24% as it tries to fend off $47bn buyout offer from Canada’s Couche-Tard

    A man stands in front of a 7-Eleven convenience store
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Playing the M&A Trump card Premium content

    Plus, European companies should prepare for activists and US banks confront whether they can underwrite blacklisted companies in Hong Kong

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Prysmian SpA
    Prysmian plans New York listing and more acquisitions in US

    Italian cable company hopes manufacturing base in America will insulate it from Donald Trump’s tariffs

    Prysmian chief executive Massimo Battaini
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Private equity
    BlackRock private equity fund takes more than $600mn hit on investment

    Alacrity’s restructuring puts it under control of private credit lenders including Antares, Blue Owl, KKR and Goldman

    A Blackrock sign on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • 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
    GSK PLC
    GSK nears $1bn deal for biotech developing drug for rare tumour

    IDRx tests treatment for digestive system cancer that affects 4,000 to 6,000 people a year in US

    GSK facility in Maryland, US
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Media
    Piers Morgan targets US after YouTube venture buyout from Rupert Murdoch’s News UK

    British presenter’s production company to acquire his ‘Uncensored’ show

    Piers Morgan
  • 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, 8 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Houston, we have a problem Premium content

    Plus, one tech investor thinks Europe still has a shot at the AI race and Blackstone gets in on the accounting sector

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone joins private equity deal wave in US accounting sector

    Acquisition of Citrin Cooperman from New Mountain Capital for $2bn marks a step up in valuations

    Blackstone’s headquarters in New York
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Seplat Energy Plc
    Nigeria’s Seplat moves in to fill gap as foreign oil companies retreat

    Buyer of ExxonMobil’s assets in the west African country wants to double production within six months

    Two workers in blue overalls and white helmets are operating machinery at an industrial site.
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Private equity wants your retirement funds Premium content

    Plus, Nippon sues the US over blocked steel deal and the pressure is on for new investment banker hires to deliver

    Marc Rowan, chief executive of Apollo
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Nippon Steel chief warns Trump that tariffs alone will not strengthen US industry

    Eiji Hashimoto says legal action against blocking of takeover aimed at winning another review under new administration

    Eiji Hashimoto
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Private equity
    KKR urges Fuji Soft to take legal action against Bain in $4bn takeover fight

    Public battle between private equity bidders for software company tests new ground in Japan

    Signage for Fuji Soft outside the company’s office building in Tokyo
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    United States Steel Corp
    Nippon Steel and US Steel sue after Biden blocks $15bn deal

    Donald Trump calls for American steel group to remain independent company

    A person walks past Nippon Steel signage
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    News in-depthInvestment Banking
    Investment banks prepare for crunch year in 2025

    Boutiques counting on M&A rebound to support elevated valuations and star hires

    Logos of Evercore, Lazard, PJT, Moelis, Perella Weinberg and Houlihan Lokey with a chart in the foreground
  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    Segantii Capital Management
    Segantii founder Simon Sadler looks to sell Blackpool FC

    Hedge fund’s founder and owner of the English club has had preliminary talks with at least one possible buyer

    Simon Sadler at Blackpool Football Club
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