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Take another bow Oliver "An Englishman in New York" Barnes of the venerable Financial Times.
The board of Mobico, the owner of National Express, has now announced it is recommending an offer from the Spanish investor consortium led by the Cosmen family.
Little old Betaville is starting a new deals round up series because it very much feels like a bull market (in equities) despite the constant scary headlines.
Another scoop, of sorts, for deal hacks at the Wall Street Journal.
LCI Industries, a US-listed supplier of engineered components to the recreation and transportation markets, has received a fresh takeover bid.
Reporters at Bloomberg are on a bit of roll when it comes to takeover stories about Corbion.
Hacks at the Wall Street Journal have a dug out a good follow up line on the Instacart sale story broken by the The Information late last Friday.
When a deal reporter hears the three letters E...Q...T the immediate assumption is that the Scandinavian private equity giant is about to announce another mega deal.
It's been a while since little old Betaville has read a decent deal story in the Mail on Sunday's business section so today's section caught my eye when I noticed a piece authored by veteran City hack Patrick Tooher about a potential takeover of FTSE 100-listed Barclays.
Jessica Levin's The Information publication dug out a decent deal scoop late on Friday that little old Betaville is just catching up with.
Take a bow Oliver "An Englishman in New York" Barnes of the venerable Financial Times.
There you have it: molecular testing company Qiagen has finally struck a deal to sell itself to Scandinavian private equity firm EQT for EURO 10.8 billion.
Deal hacks at the venerable FT have landed another decent scoop.
Mobico Group PLC, the London-listed owner of Briitsh coach firm National Express, has now confirmed it has received a takeover offer following the publication of an UNCOOKED Alert by little old Betaville earlier today.
It would appear when a private equity firm creates a "Topco" after initially creating a "Bidco" it is a pretty a good signal that said buy out firm is going to press ahead with a deal.
Just when little old Betaville thought there might be a lull in the dealmaking boom Elon Musk opens his mouth.
Arch rivals at Bloomberg are pumping out the deal stories thick and fast today.
Little old Betaville is in a bit of a grump this evening.
I see arch rivals at Bloomberg have followed up little old Betaville's RARE Alert published earlier today about the rumours about an imminent takeover deal of Qiagen, the US-listed molecular testing company.