The increased €94-per-share [US$102] tender offer for German drivetrain and powertrain technologies specialist Vitesco Technologies by its largest shareholder, family-controlled automotive supplier Schaeffler Group, is likely to go through, despite t… To read the full …
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Negotiations between German chemicals player Covestro and state-owned energy company Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) are “still alive”, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Equity Report, although clarity around the future …
A group of shareholders in British Virgin Islands-incorporated automation control systems provider HollySys Automation continue to face hurdles in their attempts to convene an extraordinary shareholder meeting (EGM), despite representing a significan… To read the …
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Irish corrugated packaging player Smurfit Kappa and US peer WestRock filed their merger notification with Brazilian antitrust regulator CADE on 3 November, with the filing expected to be published by the agency in the next …
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Mexico’s antitrust authority COFECE is likely to seek views from rivals of Irish paper and packaging company Smurfit Kappa and US peer WestRock on their planned US$11bn tie-up, local antitrust lawyers told Equity Report. “In …
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Irish corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa and US peer WestRock are expected to formally notify Brazilian antitrust regulator CADE of their US$11bn tie-up this month, a source involved in the process told Equity Report. In …
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The recently announced US$11bn merger between Irish corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa and US peer WestRock may lead to horizontal overlaps in the segment of folding boxes for beverage packaging, where the latter holds a …
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Valeria is a seasoned business and financial journalist with fifteen years of industry experience.
Before launching Equity Report in October 2022, Valeria was European Editor for US-based financial news service CTFN, where she spent seven years reporting on event-driven situations, breaking news stories on complex financial and regulatory issues across several jurisdictions, from Europe and Africa to China, India, Brazil, and Australia.
Prior to that, she was Senior Reporter at TelecomFinance, Middle East correspondent, and later Southern Europe correspondent at Mergermarket (currently ION), and held a number of editorial positions with Dubai and London-based b2b publications.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Languages and Public Relations from Leeds Beckett University and an MA in International Journalism from University of Central Lancashire.
