Acquisitions/Mergers/Shareholdings

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. ’s 2019 acquisition of its larger European rival Shire PLC made it one of the most indebted drugmakers in the world. Four years later, Takeda has not only brought its debt burden down…

Visa Inc. said its chief financial officer, Vasant Prabhu, is stepping down as the payments giant works to continue growing certain merchant services and…

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. is standing its ground against an activist investor pushing for a quick and wide-ranging overhaul of the country’s biggest freight broker as the company battles declining freight…

Mergers and acquisitions slowed substantially in 2022 as companies faced a mix of financing challenges, including rising interest rates, a pullback in leveraged finance, bond-market jitters and the possibility of a recession.But many…

Marie-Christine Lombard has faced many disruptions during her 10 years running France-based freight-forwarder Geodis SA. Rarely have they been as complex as what the company coped with in 2022, when Geodis…

The settlements involve UOP, a subsidiary of Honeywell that manufactures catalysts used to refine oil.…

A new corporate tax on stock buybacks hasn’t worried finance chiefs enough for them to rethink their strategy.The 1% levy on buybacks, which takes effect in January, could cost companies billions of dollars, but a number of executives say…

Many big retailers are discounting heavily and earlier this holiday season to clear excess stock from their shelves and warehouses. But others, with no substantive overhang of inventory, are also offering bigger sales than usual to satisfy…

Grindr LLC plans to further monetize its services, review subscription prices and beef up its finance team once the dating-app operator joins the public markets via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company on Friday. Los…

Supply-chain technology provider project44 has postponed plans for a possible public stock offering amid the uncertainty in markets, and instead is turning to more venture-capital investment to expand its business tracking goods through…