Pharmaceuticals
PE firm Advent in talks to buy inVentiv for nearly $4 bn
01 Aug 2016
Advent has so far prevailed over rival buyout firm CVC Capital Partners in bidding for inVentiv, one of the largest pharmaceutical contract research organisations in the US
Olympus sued as faulty scope causes 35 US deaths
26 Jul 2016
Thirty-five people died in the United States after contracting infections from contaminated medical scopes made by Japan’s Olympus Corp in the years after a company official told American executives not to issue widespread warnings to US hospitals
