Quentin Webb

European buyout bosses are unlikely to run for high office. But, like the former Bain Capital boss fighting t…

Formula One's owners are driving a hard bargain. Securing $1.6 billion from pre-IPO investors is a big boost …

Spotify's pitch to prospective shareholders looks ambitious. The online music-streaming firm boasts rapid gro…

The biggest rival of McDonald's in the hamburger wars will return to the U.S. equity markets via a $1.4 billi…

Sara Lee's coffee spin-off must create its own buzz. Investors need to believe the unit, officially known as …

The U.S. parcel service has admired its smaller Dutch peer for years, and proposed just before Valentine's Da…

The collapse of Glencore-Xstrata would be a $130 million blow to mergers and acquisitions bankers. Nine banks…

For months, the owners of the English soccer club had sought a $1 billion initial public offering in Singapor…

Few companies embody the highs and lows of turbo-charged modern finance better than Ferretti. Once the luxury…

On Christmas Eve 2008, in the depths of the global financial crisis, Katanga Mining accepted a lifeline it co…

An Abu Dhabi vehicle, big hedge fund managers and Swiss private banks are set to serve as "cornerstone" inves…

Deutsche Bank is close to a deal with the Icelandic tycoon who owns generic drugmaker Actavis, to slash its c…

The owners of Danish cleaning firm ISS have revived plans for a multi-billion euro flotation, asking banks to…

The twinning of two big HIV-drug operations, EDF's nuclear dealings, and Fiat's audacious bid to forge a glob…

The owners of British engineering firm Edwards, whose vacuum technology is used by the world's biggest chipma…

A string of stake buys and takeover bids has shown how merger rules in the euro zone's two biggest economies …

Billionaire Len Blavatnik is considering floating Perform Group, the digital sports-media specialist that run…

Three deals from 2012 will reshape the book, music and film industries in 2013: Penguin's merger with Random …

After another thin and bumpy year for betting on M&A, one desperate European merger arbitrageur wrote to Sant…

Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur at the centre of an $8.8 billion accounting scandal, has hired one of…

The U.S. tech giant claims to have uncovered all kinds of accounting nasties at Autonomy, the British softwar…