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Australia’s Investa Office Fund and Blackstone Group on Wednesday entered into a scheme implementation agreement through which the U.S. private equity giant would acquire real estate investm...

Deal may be announced this week valuing Versace at $2 billion Versace had drawn takeover interest from a number of suitors

Wadhawan Global Capital, parent of an Indian mortgage lender hit by allegations of financial irregularities, sold its stake in another unit to funds managed by Blackstone LP.

GlaxoSmithKline said on Tuesday it will buy Novartis’s 36.5 percent stake in their consumer healthcare joint venture for $13 billion in cash, and will also begin a strategic review of some o...

Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to buy Randgold Resources Ltd in an all-stock deal valuing the Africa-focused miner at $6.5 billion, to create the world’s largest gold producer in an i...

European Central Bank policymakers gathered in Portugal on Monday with a sinking feeling that their push to deal with an inflation shock they failed to predict risks both a recession and ec...

Pershing Square Holdings plans to buy back $300 million worth of its own shares, the company said on Wednesday after Dutch regulators threw up roadblocks that prevented billionaire investor...

China’s HNA Group Co Ltd, the heavily indebted aviation-to-financials conglomerate, plans to sell some or all of its $6.3 billion stake in Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc, underlining its need...

Global payments giant Mastercard has said it will invest $300 million as a cornerstone investor in the planned London float of payments processor Network International.

China’s Beijing Automotive Group Co Ltd (BAIC) has bought a 5% stake in Daimler (DAIGn.DE), cementing their long-standing alliance after China’s Geely emerged as a potential rival by also ta...