The sweetened offer comes days after Advent improved its bid for Spectris, prompting the target to withdraw its ...

In June, a bidding war for Spectris began with an initial offer from Advent. After KKR entered the fray with its own bid, the British company's board repeatedly changed its recommendation between the ...

US private equity group’s offer nudges out rival bidder once again in race to acquire UK scientific instruments maker ...

KKR ups its bid for Spectris to £4.2 billion, overtaking Advent in a fierce takeover race for the UK scientific instruments ...

LONDON (Reuters) -British scientific instruments maker Spectris has agreed to a sweetened offer from U.S. private equity firm ...

Private equity giant KKR has trumped rival Advent's takeover bid for British scientific instruments maker Spectris with an ...

Maven Capital Partners has sold UAP, a designer and supplier of door and window hardware, to global security and access ...

Spectris has failed to achieve such ratings as a public company due to weaker profitability, low scale and relative ...

KKR has upped its offer for British scientific instruments maker Spectris to £4.8bn, regaining backing from the company over ...

On Friday last week, Spectris had accepted the increased offer from Advent and withdrew its recommendation of a GBP40 per share bid from KKR but switched horses again on Tuesday. The acquisition is ...

Spectris raised its interim dividend by 5.3% to 28 pence per share from 26.6p. Spectris on Tuesday withdrew its recommendation of a takeover offer from Advent International LP and instead backed an ...

KKR has agreed on a recommended increased cash offer for Spectris at an offer value of £41.75 per share. This values the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Spectris at around £4.2 billion ...