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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, 23 October, 2020
    ASDA Group Ltd
    Buying Asda: how petrol station billionaires plan to pull off the deal

    Issa brothers and TDR must win over investors for £6.8bn grocery takeover after auditor resigned

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
    Freshfields: the European law firm pushing to be a US heavyweight

    Global ambitions are asking difficult questions of a pay structure that rewards longevity

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    G4S PLC
    Advisers to G4S bidder GardaWorld in line for £312m payday

    Canadian security group releases offer document on £3bn hostile takeover bid for UK rival

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Deloitte LLP
    Deloitte resigns as EG Group auditor over governance concerns

    Petrol stations group loses Big Four firm soon after its owners seal £6.8bn deal to buy Asda from Walmart

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    SoftBank: technology evangelist or hedge fund?

    Arm sale reflects transition of Masayoshi Son’s company to a global manager of assets

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce to raise £2bn to bolster balance sheet

    Aerospace manufacturer’s cash call cuts out sovereign wealth funds as shareholders resist dilution

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Silver Lake Group LLC
    Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala takes stake in Silver Lake and invests $2bn in new fund

    Deals highlight growing ties between sovereign wealth fund and US private equity group

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Dealmaking rebound drives busiest summer for M&A on record

    Thirty-six deals worth $5bn-plus unveiled in quarter as bankers race to make up for slowdown from pandemic

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    ASDA Group Ltd
    Petrol station tycoons are preferred bidders for Asda

    Consortium of Issa brothers and TDR beat Apollo to advanced talks for UK supermarket

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  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Gambling industry
    Caesars battles Apollo in takeover bid for William Hill

    Owner of Las Vegas casino Caesars Palace seeks to increase presence in sport betting

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Legal services
    Skadden poaches top Freshfields M&A lawyer in Magic Circle raid

    Recruitment of Bruce Embley comes as high volume of deals lifts partner pay at US firms

  • Sunday, 20 September, 2020
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce in talks with sovereign wealth funds to raise £2.5bn

    UK aero-engine group seeks to tap investors, including Singapore’s GIC, to shore up balance sheet

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    AnalysisGardaWorld
    Stephan Crétier: the security boss with his eyes on the G4S prize

    Man behind hostile bid for world’s biggest security group built rival GardaWorld from scratch starting with C$25,000 in 1995

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank executives revive talks on taking Japanese group private

    Conglomerate looks at strategy after series of asset disposals, including the $40bn sale of Arm Holdings

  • Saturday, 12 September, 2020
    Technology sector
    SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40bn

    Sale comes four years after Masayoshi Son bought the chip designer

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    AnalysisLuxury goods
    Grandmaster Arnault looks to the Tiffany endgame

    The takeover is still in play after US jeweller’s decision to take legal action to force LVMH to complete

  • Wednesday, 9 September, 2020
    Tiffany & Co
    LVMH says it cannot complete Tiffany takeover after French intervention

    US jeweller files suit against luxury group, claiming it has deliberately delayed $16.6bn deal

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    Anheuser-Busch InBev SA
    AB InBev launches process to replace longtime chief Carlos Brito

    Brewing giant considers external candidates to replace Brazilian who has been at helm for 16 years

  • Sunday, 6 September, 2020
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank up $4bn on founder’s aggressive US stock options bet

    Masayoshi Son’s high-risk strategy has proved controversial within Japanese tech investment group

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    The Top LineSovereign wealth funds
    Political knots bind sovereign funds trying to beat the market

    Mixing statecraft and money management can make the day-to-day job of generating returns much harder

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    JAB Holdings Ltd
    JAB Holdings parts company with newly hired executive

    David Kamenetzky had joined investment group to act as link with billionaire Reimann family

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    AnalysisNew York Mets
    New York A-listers in $2bn bidding war to buy the Mets

    Baseball team has attracted interest from Jennifer Lopez and hedge fund king Steven Cohen

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
    Thermo Fisher’s €10.7bn takeover of Qiagen collapses after investor revolt

    Failure marks a rare example of a deal faltering because Covid-19 improved target’s performance

  • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Megadeals lead M&A revival as big companies bulk up

    Eight deals of more than $10bn have been signed in past six weeks

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Aveva in talks to buy SoftBank-backed OSIsoft

    A deal between software groups would mark latest move in wave of tech consolidation

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