NO, this isn’t the fictional town from Beauty and the Beast, it’s a real and charming village that you can actually visit. With brightly coloured timber houses and window boxes full of ...

KKR & Co. agreed to buy Spectris Plc for £4.1 billion ($5.6 billion), surpassing an earlier bid for the British maker of precision testing equipment and software from a group led by Advent.

Bankers are vying to play a part in the debt financing backing Advent International’s potential acquisition of a suite of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc’s homecare brands — a rare leveraged ...