takeovers

But on January 16, The Australian Financial Review’s Street Talk column published the confidential details of a sitting panel reviewing Nitro Software and bidders - KKR-owned Alludo and Potentia Capital - including who was leading it.The…

Newport in south Wales finds itself on an unlikely geopolitical faultline. The UK government cited national security concerns to retrospectively block the sale of one of Britain’s biggest semiconductor plants, Newport Wafer Fab, to a…

Britain’s aerospace and defence sector has been a rare bright spot, defying the shrinking trend of the country’s manufacturing base for more than 30 years, with a core group of heavyweights such as BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce…

Publicly listed companies are most exposed to threats of a hostile takeover. However, with time, they have come up with varied defence mechanisms to prevent such takeovers. Publicly listed companies are most exposed to threats of a…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeBillionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is not the first person to mount an unexpected takeover bid for AGL.Thirty-six years ago, feared corporate raiders Gary Weiss and Ron Brierley (who was last…

Ministers have greater powers to block foreign takeovers of British firms after new rules came into effect on Tuesday giving them more scope to unpick deals that have the potential to harm national security. The National Security and…

Saudi Arabia plans to convert its airport operators into holding companies and transfer them to its powerful sovereign wealth fund with a view to eventual privatisation for some, the head of Saudi Arabia General Authority of Civil Aviation…