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Today's formal announcement that China Investment Corporation is to acquire Logicor is further proof that Chinese buyers are willing to pay top drawer prices for companies they consider to be a good strategic fit.

With the AML4 enactment date fast approaching on 26th June, see where each EU member state is at with their creation of the national ownership registries required by this directive.

An account of the diverse views aired at the Fast Track 100 conference and awards dinner, for which Bureau van Dijk's Fame database supplies some of the data used to help compile the list.

The first in a two-part series of blog posts discussing different types of corporate ownership structure.

The announcement that Symphony Communications has raised another USD 63 million of capital may not seem like a big deal, but the injection grants the business Unicorn status.

We meet the man behind aRMadillo's document retrieval service, reinvigorated as part of the latest release of the Orbis database of around 220 million companies across all countries worldwide.

It would appear that the inevitable has finally happened, with the announcement by Alitalia’s board, after a shareholder meeting held today, that they have formally requested that the company be placed into administration and either sold or liquidated.

Read about our A-Z guide of corporate ownership and compliance terms, and a new poster explaining integrated corporate ownership and related risk. Both are available to download or in print for free.

Yesterday saw the announcement that Jimmy Choo has put itself up for sale.

We've recently added some enhancements to the new interface, which we launched last year for our flagship Orbis database. Read about them here.

Some deals are worth waiting for. Today's announcement brings an end to 22 months of speculation after a Macquarie-led consortium, which includes additional investments from Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s private pension scheme for universities and other higher education institutions, agreed a deal for UK Green Investment Bank with the UK government.

The Internal Revenue Service in the US has overhauled its operations, affecting many areas of corporate taxation, not least multinationals' transfer pricing arrangements. We look at how companies from the US and beyond can adapt.