American depositary shares of RLX Technology Inc jumped 86% in their U.S. stock market debut on Friday, giving the Chinese vaping firm a market capitalization of nearly $35 billion.
Taiwan's Globalwafers raised its takeover offer for Germany's Siltronic by 450 million euros ($547 million) on Friday as it tries to win over shareholders in its bid to create a leading player in the global wafer industry.
Swedish payments firm Trustly plans to take advantage of a surge in digital transactions in the COVID-19 pandemic with a second-quarter flotation that could value it at up to 9 billion euros ($11 billion), people close to the matter said.
Russia's Inter RAO could boost its profits by buying Russian fossil fuel assets from Germany's Uniper and Finland's Fortum, a shareholder in the Moscow-listed company said on Friday.
Brazilian asset manager Patria Investments Ltd, which is backed by Blackstone Group Inc, priced its class A shares at $17 each in an initial public offering, $1 above the upper limit of its price range, according to a securities filing late on Thursday.
Private equity firm TPG has entered into exclusive talks to acquire a minority stake in AT&T Inc's satellite TV division DirecTV, in a deal that would allow the U.S. wireless carrier to trim its net debt of close to $150 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
EVgo Services LLC said on Friday it has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check firm Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corp, in a deal that values the electric vehicle charging station provider at $2.6 billion.
French media company Vivendi said on Friday it agreed to buy a 7.6% stake in Spanish rival Prisa, sending shares in the owner of Spain's influential El Pais newspaper up 10% at opening.
Czech billionaire Petr Kellner's PPF group aims to launch a public offer for shares in MONETA Money Bank and sell its Air Bank unit to the lender in a share swap that renews an attempt at a deal that fizzled two years ago.
Electric passenger aircraft developer Joby Aero Inc is exploring a deal to go public through a merger with a blank-check acquisition firm at a valuation of around $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Friday unanimously approved Janet Yellen's nomination as the first woman Treasury secretary, indicating that she will easily win full Senate approval, but Republicans called for her to work with them in developing economic policies.