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Arash Massoudi

Corporate finance and deals editor

Arash Massoudi is corporate finance and deals editor at the Financial Times based in London, where he has worked since 2014. Prior to that, he was capital markets reporter in the FT's New York bureau. He joined the FT in London in 2011 from the US government where he served in the Commerce department.

Along with James Fontanella-Khan, he is the co-creator of the FT’s premium corporate finance briefing called Due Diligence. To receive the newsletter in your inbox Tuesday to Friday at 5am UK time, sign-up here.

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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Fintech
    Klarna valuation crashes to $6.5bn from $46bn

    Swedish fintech’s decline highlights how investors are souring on ‘buy now, pay later’ sector

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Aston Martin Lagonda
    Saudi Arabia in talks to take stake in Aston Martin

    Latest fundraising will help indebted luxury carmaker invest in new models

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    FC Barcelona
    Barcelona sells media rights stake to Sixth Street in bid to repair finances

    Deal with private equity group will deliver Spanish club more than €200mn over 25 years

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Naspers Ltd
    Naspers to sell more of Tencent stake in bid to revive shares

    South African group and its Dutch-listed subsidiary take new measures to ignite stock

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Arm Ltd
    UK officials weigh national security grounds to force London IPO for Arm

    Plan has drawn criticism within government circles and tensions with SoftBank over lobbying effort

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Klarna AB
    Klarna tries to raise cash at less than half its peak $46bn valuation

    Buy now, pay later company’s struggle underscores challenges facing the sector

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank installs app on bankers’ phones to track private messages

    Movius software to monitor calls and texts following widespread regulatory probes of inappropriate contact

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Football
    AC Milan’s new owners bet they can top miracle season

    US investment firm RedBird has bought a club that enjoyed an unexpected recovery under hedge fund Elliott Management

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Boots UK Ltd
    Ambani’s Reliance teams up with Apollo to make binding bid for Boots

    Offer values UK group at between £5bn and £6bn and will allow US parent to keep a minority stake

  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    Associazione Calcio Milan SpA
    Elliott to sell Italy’s AC Milan football club to RedBird for €1.2bn

    Deal follows Serie A title win and caps turnround under activist investor’s ownership

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Financial services
    EY explores IPO or partial sale of global advisory business

    Big Four firm hires JPMorgan and Goldman to look at break-up, raising prospect of potential windfall for partners

  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia steps into the Davos limelight

    Flush with oil revenue, the kingdom and its Gulf neighbours are a rare economic bright spot

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Hedge funds
    BofA and Citi suspend equity trading with Segantii Capital on block trade concerns

    Hedge fund run by Blackpool FC owner is a ‘priority customer’ in Asia

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    Football
    Chelsea sale set for UK approval after Abramovich meets ‘red lines’

    UK ministers close to signing off on deal that ensures no benefit to oligarch but green light still needed from Brussels and Lisbon

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    Real Madrid Club de Futbol
    Real Madrid strikes €360mn events deal for revamped stadium

    Club announces partnership with investment group Sixth Street as part of efforts to diversify revenues

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Twitter Inc
    Elon Musk raised prospect of Twitter takeover as early as March

    Social media company says it is committed to the deal as new filing details billionaire’s discussions with its board

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Twitter Inc
    Elon Musk puts $44bn Twitter deal ‘on hold’

    Tesla chief questions fake accounts on social media site, leading to share price drop and new doubts over takeover

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    SoftBank Group Corp
    The art of ‘mamori’: why Masayoshi Son’s defence might not work this time

    Tech stock rout has investors wondering how SoftBank can manage its heavy debt load

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Telecoms
    Vodafone in talks to combine UK arm with CK Hutchison’s Three

    Latest effort to consolidate British mobile telecoms comes as activist investor exerts pressure

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Private equity
    CVC pushes back IPO plans amid market turmoil

    Europe’s biggest private equity group now expects to list this autumn or even in 2023

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Pfizer Inc
    Pfizer to buy biotech group Biohaven for $11.6bn

    US pharmaceutical group’s biggest deal in more than 5 years comes as sales of its Covid vaccine are set to fall

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Tobacco
    Philip Morris International nears $16bn deal for Swedish Match

    Marlboro seller close to acquisition of maker of snus tobacco pouches in further shift away from cigarettes

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Twitter Inc
    Larry Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn Twitter bid

    Tesla chief raises $7bn from investors to help fund takeover of social media platform

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Chelsea FC PLC
    Abramovich allies set to continue running Chelsea after sale

    Bruce Buck and Marina Granovskaia offered option to stay by leading bidder for club

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Companies3 min
    The great train takeover | FT Big Deal

    The fiercest takeover battle of 2021 took place in a sector that hadn’t seen a major deal in over 20 years, says Arash Massoudi

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