Mergers and acquisitions

Ladbrokes owner Entain has confirmed a £18.4bn takeover bid by US betting giant Draftkings which puts the FTSE 100 company

Law firm Mishcon de Reya has agreed a merger with life sciences specialist Taylor Vinters after recently confirming its plans

Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has confirmed its brand Media.Monks’ merger with digital services firm Zemoga, to bolster its technology services

Revenue at Wickes has grown steadily on pre-pandemic levels, pushing the home improvement store chain to instate its first ever

Investors in UK startups are ready to pull capital over the threat that a proposed competition clamp down on startup

Cybersecurity firm Kape has agreed to a nearly $1bn buyout of private network operate ExpressVPN ahead of a capital rally

French healthcare company Sanofi has announced its plans to acquire Kadmon, a US biopharmaceutical firm, for $1.9bn, according to reports.

PayPal, the online payments giant, has announced plans to acquire Paidy, a Japanese ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) firm, for

London private equity firm Cinven has bowed out of a $2bn-odd bidding war with US fund servicer Apex Group to

Software developer Intuit, the firm behind TurboTax and QuickBooks, has reportedly entered talks with Mailchimp for a $10bn buyout. The deal’s

Australian transactions firm Afterpay has watched its losses widen in the past year, as it ramped up costs in a

Goldman Sachs is set to buy Dutch insurance group NN’s asset management division for some €1.7bn – the Wall Street