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A consortium led by US private equity group KKR has offered to buy Australia’s largest private hospital operator for A$20.1bn ($14.9bn), in what would be one of the biggest leverage buyouts in the country’s history. The offer for…

Russian forces are using “powerful anti-bunker bombs” to shell the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where civilians including children are sheltering underground alongside fighters defending the city, a senior Ukrainian government official…

Israel’s Delek Group is expanding its presence in the UK North Sea through the acquisition of Siccar Point Energy, the private equity-backed company behind the controversial Cambo oilfield, in a deal worth nearly $1.5bn.Delek will…

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s…

Here’s the headline, folks: The US recorded music industry generated USD $14.99 billion in 2021 – its biggest annual tally in history.That stat, revealed today by MBW, comes from RIAA annual year-end data, and was up by a whopping 23% (or…

Formal bids for a €1.5bn deal with France’s Ligue 1 are being prepared by private equity groups CVC Capital Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Silver Lake and Oaktree Capital, as the country’s top football league seeks to recover from…

Future UK generations will be left to pay for the “unacceptable” billions of pounds of taxpayer money that was “risked and lost” by ministers in fraud and error in Covid-19 support schemes, according to MPs.The estimated loss from…

Glencore expects to resolve bribery and corruption investigations in the UK, US and Brazil this year and has set aside $1.5bn to cover potential fines and costs.News of the provision came as the London-listed miner and commodity…

Asset manager Abrdn has been forced to delay a shareholder vote on a £1.5bn transaction owing to a shortage of paper caused by international supply chain problems. The FTSE 100 group will contact shareholders on Wednesday announcing…

Etched into a glass window fronting the Edinburgh headquarters of the company formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen is a single word: Abrdn. When the 197-year-old company decided to reinvent itself by ditching vowels in 2021, the…