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- 08/29/26: Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal Relies on a Powerful and Divisive Partner
The administration will work with a private Venezuelan oil company that has close ties to the country’s government. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/27/26: Los Angeles Dodgers Owner’s Troubles Roil Insurance World
Federal investigations of Mark Walter’s business empire have put a spotlight on private-equity-owned insurers that invest premiums in risky assets. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/24/26: Research Firm’s Founder Explains $6 Million Payment to Fired Forbes Editor
RJ Shook of Shook Research said he paid Randall Lane, the former top editor at Forbes, for “services and guidance” in partnering with Forbes and later selling his research firm. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/24/26: California Cancels Talks With Paramount Over Warner Bros. Merger
The attorney general of California, one of 12 states suing to block the $111 billion deal, accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting earlier settlement discussions. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/24/26: When Private Equity Comes for Your Favorite Team
The Los Angeles Lakers have been sold for a record $12.5 billion, the latest sign that huge pools of institutional money are flooding into professional sports. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/24/26: Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Want You to Watch Everything From One App: Theirs
YouTube is racing to catch up to Amazon, which already offers users the chance to subscribe to services like HBO Max from within its app. Netflix is increasingly open to the idea, too. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/22/26: Paramount and California to Hold Preliminary Talks on Warner Bros. Deal
The discussions on Monday are an early effort to resolve a lawsuit that California and 11 other states filed to block Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/19/26: Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion
The deal is significant for the artificial intelligence industry, uniting Stripe’s payments business with OpenRouter’s helping businesses direct their spending on A.I. models. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/18/26: Theater Chains Back Paramount-Warner Deal That States Say Will Hurt Them
America’s three largest movie theater companies have lined up behind David Ellison’s $111 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/17/26: Paramount Asks States to Shoulder Costs of Delaying Warner Bros. Deal
Paramount’s $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery has been postponed until the conclusion of a trial, a delay the studio says could cost it millions of dollars. - Source: NYT > Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- 08/13/26: Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley buys Harvey Nichols
Frasers Group acquires majority of upmarket retailer’s sites from the administrators
The owner of Sports Direct has bought Harvey Nichols out of administration after the upmarket department store chain warned it could run out of money if it did not find new funding.
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group said on Thursday it had bought the chain, which is headquartered at its store in Knightsbridge, for an undisclosed sum on the day it was put into administration. Sources said he had paid about £40m for Harvey Nichols, which has 1,200 employees and 13 stores.
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- 08/06/26: Paramount concessions lead UK to approve takeover of Warner Bros
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she will not intervene in £85bn deal after securing guarantees on Channel 5
The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she will not intervene in Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, removing one of the remaining obstacles to the blockbuster deal.
However, Paramount has made significant concessions to secure the UK government’s backing for the $110bn (£85bn) takeover, which will create a global media powerhouse and effectively bolster the influence of Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison.
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- 08/06/26: EasyJet agrees to £5.7bn takeover by US private equity firm
Airline says it has accepted offer from Apollo Global Management after rival bidder Castlelake walks away
EasyJet has formally agreed to a £5.7bn takeover from US private equity firm Apollo Global Management.
The airline announced it had accepted a firm offer on Thursday after a rival bidder, Castlelake, said it would no longer pursue its attempted acquisition.
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- 08/05/26: Soriot should explain the curious case of AstraZeneca’s non-deal
AstraZeneca’s rumoured takeover of Bristol Myers Squibb already looked weird, and was met with a lack of enthusiasm by shareholders
Hold the heartburn pills. It seems AstraZeneca is no longer contemplating a takeover of US rival Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) to create a $400bn (£300bn) pharmaceutical colossus. On Monday, the UK firm’s shares plunged 9% on the FT’s report of preliminary talks. On Wednesday, Reuters said there are no ongoing discussions. Cue a mini-relief rally in AZ’s share price.
Neither company has seen fit to tell its shareholders what was happening, so it’s impossible to know if the talks were a tentative ‘what if?’ corporate flirtation or something more substantial that has been killed, perhaps, by the lack of enthusiasm on the part of AZ’s shareholders.
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- 08/05/26: Video game maker EA bought by Saudi-led group for $55bn
Company acquired in deal involving Affinity Partners, a firm run by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner
Electronic Arts, the maker of video games such as The Sims, Madden NFL and Battlefield, has been bought by Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund and a group of investors for $55bn (£41bn).
The company announced the completion of the deal on Tuesday evening, only days after the EU gave its approval, the final regulatory green light needed.
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- 08/03/26: AstraZeneca should stick to its winning formula. It doesn’t need a $400bn US mega-merger
The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s flirtation with a grand combo with US group Bristol Myers Squibb is baffling
• AstraZeneca shares fall 8.9% over merger talks with US cancer drug firm
Sir Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, starts with huge credit in the bank, obviously. His long tenure has been a triumph, starting with the against-the-odds victory over Pfizer’s charmless accountants in 2014.
The $39bn (£29bn) purchase of Alexion in 2021 looked a little over-priced at the time, but you could see how it sat well with Soriot’s sermons on the importance of backing science. The deal got AZ into the field of medicines for rare diseases, which should offer decades of growth.
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- 08/03/26: AstraZeneca falls to third-largest UK company amid US merger talks
Proposed $400bn tie-up with Bristol Myers Squibb would create world’s fourth-largest drugmaker but analysts question rationale
More than £17bn was wiped off the value of Britain’s biggest drugmaker, AstraZeneca, on Monday after a report that it was in discussions to take over its US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal that would create a near $400bn (£300bn) pharmaceutical group.
AstraZeneca, run by Pascal Soriot, its longtime chief executive, had been worth nearly £196bn before the news broke. BMS, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, and known for its cancer treatments, was worth $133bn (£98bn).
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- 07/31/26: Sainsbury’s to sell Argos to three retail veterans in £120m deal
Trio set up Swift Partners for the acquisition, allowing supermarket to focus on core food business
Sainsbury’s has agreed to sell the Argos retail chain for £120m to allow it to concentrate on its core food business.
The supermarket announced on Friday it was selling the catalogue shopping business to a trio of retail veterans, a decade after buying the company for more than £1bn.
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- 07/27/26: Private equity finds soft takeover targets in London – yet again | Nils Pratley
Offer for DCC Energy leaves total of completed or agreed deals within FTSE 100 this year at five, but has Westminster noticed?
And another one goes. Dublin-based DCC Energy is a lower-profile member of the FTSE 100, but they all count. We’re now at five completed or agreed takeovers within London’s leading index this year – and it’s still only July.
The subplot at DCC was vocal opposition from a few shareholders who thought the private equity groups KKR and Energy Capital Partners, a unit of Bridgepoint, should be paying more than the £5.75bn, or £65.25 a share, at which the board has rolled over. Fidelity International and Aviva Investors were to the fore, as well as DCC’s founder.
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- 07/27/26: DCC, one of FTSE 100’s biggest energy firms, agrees £5.75bn takeover
KKR and Energy Capital Partners poised to buy firm despite misgivings from founder and biggest shareholders
One of the biggest energy businesses listed on the London Stock Exchange has agreed a controversial £5.7bn takeover by private equity, adding to the growing exodus of companies from the UK market.
The US private equity groups KKR and Energy Capital Partners are poised to buy DCC Energy after the company’s board recommended the offer despite misgivings from its founder and biggest shareholders.
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- 07/27/26: A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought in the US and UK. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should
Though it has yet to become front-page news in the UK, you should know about the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros merger. It threatens to inflict immense harm on the British public. As actors and public figures who have spent our careers in the arts in Britain – working with British crews, on British stages and sets – we have a responsibility to the public who support, enjoy and consume the art we make.
The UK is being threatened by a media merger that would harm our workers, our culture and the public – but we can stop it. We are encouraged by Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, who recently sent letters to Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, as well as a statement to parliament, indicating that she is “minded to intervene” in Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros.
Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong are actors working in the UK and Hollywood
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- 07/24/26: Paramount agrees to pause $110bn Warner Bros merger as case plays out
Twelve states led by California had obtained temporary restraining order blocking merger from closing for 28 days
Paramount Skydance has agreed to pause its $110bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery until a ruling on several states’ challenge to the deal, or until 1 June 2027, according to court papers filed on Friday.
A group of 12 US states headed by California obtained a temporary restraining order this week that blocked the merger from closing for 28 days, pending the outcome of a motion for a preliminary injunction.
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- 07/23/26: EasyJet profits plunge 70% as fuel costs soar amid Iran war
Budget airline, which has two US investment firms vying to buy it, also affected by passengers booking later
The low-cost airline easyJet has revealed a 70% slide in profits because of soaring fuel costs and later bookings as a result of the conflict in Iran, only weeks after it agreed to a £5.7bn takeover.
The carrier reported a pre-tax profit of £85m between April and June compared with £286m during the same period a year earlier, as its fuel costs increased by £105m after the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East in late February sent energy prices rocketing.
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- 07/22/26: Segro board U-turns on £14bn takeover bid by US rival Prologis
UK warehouse landlord says board unanimous in recommendation to accept ‘best and final offer’
The board of the UK warehouse landlord Segro has U-turned and said it would be willing to accept a £14bn takeover by Segro’s bigger US rival, Prologis, in a deal that would be one of the largest foreign takeovers of a UK-listed company.
In the latest blow to the troubled London stock market, Segro said in a statement that its board had “unanimously concluded” it would recommend its shareholders accept what Prologis called its “best and final offer”, made just hours before a deadline.
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- 07/21/26: Mitie agrees £3.1bn takeover by OCS in blow to London stock market
Board of UK government contractor recommends deal with private-equity owned rival
The outsourcer Mitie has agreed to a £3.1bn takeover by its private-equity owned rival OCS Group, ending nearly four decades on the stock market and making it the latest London-listed company to be acquired this year.
On Tuesday, the government contractor said its board has recommended that shareholders accept a cash offer of 221.6p a share, a 46.8% premium to Monday’s closing price.
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- 07/17/26: ‘Laws were broken’: multistate effort to stop Paramount’s $111bn merger heads to court
Attorneys general from 12 states are suing to block the Paramount-Warner Bros deal they say violates antitrust law
A last-ditch effort to block the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is heading to court as 12 Democratic state attorneys general attempt to stop the $111bn deal they say violates antitrust law and reduces competition in both the film and cable television industries.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Monday, faces a crucial hearing on Friday to determine if a judge will temporarily pause the deal or allow it to continue toward approval. The merger was already approved by the Department of Justice in June.
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- 07/17/26: ‘How’s this joker got my details?’: BrewDog founder faces complaints over emails to ‘equity punks’
Exclusive: Watchdog asked to look into how James Watt got data of ex-crowdfunders he invited to join buy-back bid
James Watt, the BrewDog founder who sold the debt-laden “punk” brewer earlier this year, is the subject of complaints to the UK’s data privacy watchdog linked to his surprise bid to buy the company back, the Guardian has learned.
BrewDog’s brand, intellectual property, UK breweries and 11 bars were sold to the US cannabis and drinks firm Tilray in March for £33m, in a deal that rendered the shares of more than 200,000 crowdfunding investors worthless.
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- 07/16/26: A priority for the next chancellor: boost the London stock market
Politicians need to see there’s something worth boosting. The current hollowing-out is not healthy
Another day, another takeover bid for a UK-listed company. In fact, Thursday saw three in one gulp. Bath-based Rotork, which makes safety valves for pipelines, is falling to Swiss group ABB for £4.1bn. Gooch & Housego, a specialist in precision optics for aerospace and defence, is being bought by a US investment firm for £346m. And Ramsdens, a financial services and pawnbroker firm, is also being taken over from the US for £230m.
Individually, the deals represent splendid one-day news for the firms’ shareholders since the premiums on the pre-action share prices are 73%, 41% and 49%. Collectively, however, they are yet another depressing chapter in the tale of London’s incredible shrinking stock market.
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- 07/16/26: Uber to buy Germany’s Delivery Hero in $14.8bn global deal
Agreement combines Uber Eats with food delivery brands in 99 countries and expands taxi service reach
Uber has reached an agreement to take over the German takeaway company Delivery Hero in a $14.8bn (£11bn, or €12.9bn) deal that would create a global food delivery giant.
The US tech firm said it had offered to pay €41.50 a share to Delivery Hero’s shareholders, valuing the business at $14.8bn. Uber will pay $13.7bn after accounting for its previous purchases of a quarter of Delivery Hero’s shares, most recently in May.
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- 07/13/26: US state attorneys general file lawsuit in effort to block Paramount merger
Bipartisan group argue in lawsuit that $110bn merger would hurt competition and lead to thousands of job losses
A dozen US state attorneys general are seeking to block the $110bn merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, arguing in a lawsuit filed on Monday that it would hurt competition and lead to higher prices for consumers.
The coalition behind the lawsuit is led by the California attorney general, Rob Bonta, who has been a staunch critic of the merger since it was agreed to in February after a bidding war between David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and Netflix.
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