Student SpotlightPrivate Equity5th August 2026
Private equity is quietly rewriting football-club ownership. Chelsea and AC Milan offer two versions of the same wager, and raise the question of whether financial discipline and success on the pitch can ever sit comfortably together.
Raheel Bhuiya7 min read
MarketsGlobal Healthcare2nd August 2026
Big Pharma is acquiring earlier and accepting greater scientific risk for unproven drugs. The driver is not confidence in the science but the fear of a rival securing the next blockbuster first, as a $300bn patent cliff bears down on the industry.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti8 min read
MarketsGlobal Healthcare16th July 2026
A $200 million upfront payment, with milestones potentially taking the deal's total value to $1.9 billion, gives AstraZeneca exclusive rights to develop and commercialise an experimental COPD treatment outside China. More importantly, it highlights a broader shift in how Big Pharma is sourcing innovation.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti4 min read
Private Equity16th July 2026
EQT needed four bids to take Intertek private, and the sequence reveals less about price than about who now sets the value of a FTSE 100 company, and why London keeps losing profitable firms to private buyers.
Abir Ghosh Biswas6 min read
MarketsGlobal Healthcare10th July 2026
Vertex's $10 billion acquisition of Crinetics is about far more than adding another drug to its portfolio. It is a strategic bet on an endocrinology platform that could fuel the company's next phase of growth.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti6 min read
MarketsGlobal Healthcare3rd July 2026
As NHS waiting lists for autism assessments pass 200,000, private capital is flowing into neurodiversity services – forcing the question of whether profit and patient care can ever be aligned.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti8 min read
MarketsGlobal Healthcare26th June 2026
A single FDA reversal sent Regenxbio's shares soaring and reignited optimism across gene therapy - but one favourable decision cannot solve the commercial challenges that pushed the industry into crisis.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti6 min read
MarketsGlobal Healthcare19th June 2026
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have proven GLP-1 drugs can deliver surgery-level weight loss - but with patients regaining much of it after stopping, the market's real value may depend on long-term adherence rather than who wins on efficacy.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti5 min read
Private EquityGlobal Healthcare12th June 2026
As AI clouds software valuations, private equity is pivoting towards healthcare – a sector whose demand is underpinned by demographics and disease burden that can be forecasted decades ahead.
Abdul Wasey Bhatti6 min read
Markets27th April 2026
Goldman's near miss looked like good news. It was really a warning about everything else.
Abir Ghosh Biswas5 min read
Markets21st April 2026
A Connecticut credit firm is lending millions against World Cup resale tickets, betting the markup holds. The trade exposes a wider story about how Wall Street is learning to finance scarcity.
Sonal Weerasekera8 min read
Private MarketsPrivate Equity28th March 2026
From Blackstone's bid for Senior plc to the largest LBO in history and a regulatory clash threatening the private credit ratings ecosystem, this week laid bare the tensions running through global private capital markets.
Sonal Weerasekera7 min read