Exclusive: Peter Cowgill, the former JD Sports Fashion chief, is taking a stake in Applied Nutrition, the Liverpool-based sports supplements maker, which will this week kick off meetings with institutional investors ahead of a potential London flotation. news.sky.com/story/former-j…

Exclusive: Getir, the grocery delivery giant which was valued at nearly $12bn (£9.6bn) just two years ago, is in talks about a radical restructuring that could see it broken up or exit more of its remaining operating markets (which include the UK). news.sky.com/story/grocery-…

Revealed: Mytilineos, a €5bn Greek energy and metals conglomerate, has hired Citi and Morgan Stanley to advise it on switching its primary listing from Athens to London in a move that would represent a welcome boost for the owner of the British bourse. news.sky.com/story/eur5bn-g…

Revealed: Matthew Riley, the telecoms entrepreneur behind Daisy Group, one of the sector's most successful private companies, has engineered his latest takeover deal with a £215m swoop on 4Com, a Bournemouth-based supplier of cloud communication services. news.sky.com/story/daisy-fo…

Exclusive: RedBird IMI is in detailed talks with Whitehall officials about the structure of a sale of The Daily Telegraph; one area under discussion is whether it can convert a £600m call option into shares to allow it to sell The Spectator separately. news.sky.com/story/redbird-…

In my column for today’s City A.M., why Everton FC suitor 777 Partners needs to dial 999 for funding, and the reason why CVC Capital’s plan to float in Amsterdam needs to be a case of third time lucky; plus, is former BP chief Bernard Looney Abu Dhabi-bound? cityam.com/mark-kleinman-…

Exclusive: Sir Paul Marshall, the hedge fund tycoon and major bankroller of the television channel GB News, is preparing to step down from the board of its parent company, All Perspectives, as he plots a renewed takeover bid for The Daily Telegraph. news.sky.com/story/telegrap…

Exclusive: Poundstretcher, the discount retailer which trades from more than 320 stores and employs 4,000 people, is to be bought by Fortress Investment Group, the owner of Majestic Wine and Punch Pubs. The deal will be announced later today. news.sky.com/story/discount…

Revealed: The two founders of Focus Group, a business telecoms and IT services group, are set for a nine-figure paper windfall as they finalise an £800m sale of the company to Hg, the private equity firm. news.sky.com/story/focus-gr…

Exclusive: 777 Partners, the investor seeking to take control of Everton Football Club, has pushed back its target date for buying the Toffees to the end of next month and requested an extension to the repayment of a £160m loan related to its new stadium. news.sky.com/story/everton-…

Exclusive: Ted Baker's US licensing partner, OSL, is a frontrunner to take over the running of its operations in the UK, where it has dozens of stores and which recently collapsed into administration; Mike Ashley's Frasers Group is also in the running. news.sky.com/story/us-licen…

Exclusive: Jon Moulton, the prominent financier, has embarked on a fresh attempt to sell Everest, one of Britain's biggest double-glazing suppliers, four years after salvaging hundreds of jobs through a pre-pack insolvency when the Covid crisis hit. news.sky.com/story/moulton-…

Exclusive: CVC Capital Partners, the private equity giant which owns a stake in Six Nations Rugby, is preparing to launch another attempt to list in Amsterdam this month - and possibly as soon as next week - that could value it at roughly €15bn (£12.8bn). news.sky.com/story/six-nati…

Exclusive: Barclays is mounting a judicial review of a Financial Ombudsman Service decision that it unfairly paid commission to arrange a car purchase loan in 2018, reflecting growing anxiety among banks about a potential industry-wide compensation bill. news.sky.com/story/barclays…

Revealed: Revolution Bars, the London-listed owner of the Revolucion de Cuba chain, is close to finalising an emergency cash call that would pave the way for an accelerated sale process and a restructuring that would trigger the closure of about 20 venues. news.sky.com/story/revoluti…

Exclusive: US-based International Paper is nearing agreement on a £5bn-plus all-stock takeover of DS Smith, the FTSE-100 paper and packaging group, with insiders saying that a recommended offer could be announced by the two companies as early as this week. news.sky.com/story/internat…

Exclusive: Bankers from Goldman Sachs, Raine and Rothschild will pitch to the England and Wales Cricket Board next week as the governing body prepares to sell stakes in the Hundred franchises and raise tens of millions of pounds for cash-strapped counties. news.sky.com/story/bankers-…

Revealed: Tree Energy Solutions, a green hydrogen start-up backed by HSBC and the German utility Eon, has secured more than €100m in funding from a syndicate of investors including AtlasInvest and Zodiac Maritime. The raise is Belgium-based TES’s largest to date.

Exclusive: Administrators to The Body Shop are proposing to launch a company voluntary arrangement to help it exit insolvency proceedings, according to a report which lays bare the scale of its problems prior to its change of ownership late last year. news.sky.com/story/body-sho…

Exclusive: ING, the Dutch lender, has been thrust into a pivotal role in determining the fate of stricken Thames Water's parent company as part of a £190m loan facility due to be repaid by the end of the month. Banking sources say an extension is possible. news.sky.com/story/dutch-ba…