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Declan Byrne

Corporate Affairs Reporter

1537 Articles

About Declan

Declan covers the corporate beat: earnings seasons, mergers and acquisitions, boardroom changes and restructurings. He reads the filings so readers don't have to, and prefers the footnotes to the press release. His test for a company story is simple: what changed, for whom, and does the money agree.

Areas of Expertise

Earnings M&A corporate strategy governance

Latest Articles

FIFA Defends World Cup Investment Plan as UEFA and CONCACAF Push Back
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FIFA Defends World Cup Investment Plan as UEFA and CONCACAF Push Back

FIFA insists 'nobody is selling football' and refuses to withdraw a plan to sell minority stakes in a World Cup commerci...

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Ferro-Alloy Resources Names New CEO, Raises £5.7m and Sets Sights on Yttrium
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Ferro-Alloy Resources Names New CEO, Raises £5.7m and Sets Sights on Yttrium

The Kazakhstan-focused miner is replacing its CEO, raising funds to meet near-term debt, and weighing yttrium extraction...

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Why Cutting Staff in a Crisis Can Cost More Than Keeping Them
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Why Cutting Staff in a Crisis Can Cost More Than Keeping Them

An investor argues that owners should judge layoffs by company value, not quarterly profit — and explains when cutting s...

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What to Watch as 30 CAC 40 Companies Report Half-Year Results This Week
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What to Watch as 30 CAC 40 Companies Report Half-Year Results This Week

Three-quarters of France's flagship index publish interim results in a single week, with investors parsing guidance upgr...

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FIFA Scraps Plan to Sell World Cup Stakes to Private Investors After Uproar
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FIFA Scraps Plan to Sell World Cup Stakes to Private Investors After Uproar

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has dropped the FIFA Forward Enterprise plan to sell World Cup commercial rights to priv...

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Airbus Spain Faces Indefinite Strike From 24 August After Workers Reject Pay Deal
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Airbus Spain Faces Indefinite Strike From 24 August After Workers Reject Pay Deal

CGT, UGT and UTIL filed an indefinite strike notice covering all Airbus Spanish centers after workers rejected a 5%/5% p...

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Avançsa Puts €4M into Open Cosmos as Catalonia Deepens Its Space Industry Bet
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Avançsa Puts €4M into Open Cosmos as Catalonia Deepens Its Space Industry Bet

Catalonia's Avançsa is lending €4 million to satellite maker Open Cosmos, adding to €31 million from ICF funds and cemen...

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Xiaomi Q1 Revenue Holds at ¥99.1bn as Auto Sales and Overseas IoT Offset Memory Costs
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Xiaomi Q1 Revenue Holds at ¥99.1bn as Auto Sales and Overseas IoT Offset Memory Costs

Xiaomi's first-quarter revenue held near ¥100 billion despite memory price pressure, with more than 80,000 EV deliveries...

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China's M&A Market Jumps 60.7% in 2025 as Policy Reshapes Deal Logic
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China's M&A Market Jumps 60.7% in 2025 as Policy Reshapes Deal Logic

Chinese M&A activity hit 2,800 deals worth over 964 billion yuan in 2025, with policy support and AI tools reshaping how...

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Xi'an Tianmei's Stachyose Standards Aim to Break China's Premium Prebiotic Bottleneck
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Xi'an Tianmei's Stachyose Standards Aim to Break China's Premium Prebiotic Bottleneck

A Chinese stachyose maker is betting on purity standards and NMR testing to move the prebiotic ingredient up the value c...

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Johnson & Johnson to exit manufacturing sites in up to $750M supply chain overhaul
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Johnson & Johnson to exit manufacturing sites in up to $750M supply chain overhaul

J&J is streamlining its innovative medicine manufacturing network by fiscal 2029 — at a cost of up to $750 million — whi...

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Zepto Confirms Pre-IPO Equity Placement at $4.5 Billion Valuation
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Zepto Confirms Pre-IPO Equity Placement at $4.5 Billion Valuation

Zepto has agreed a pre-IPO equity placement at a reported $4.5 billion valuation, staying debt-free with ₹5,681 crore in...

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Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds
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Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds

A reported $5 billion Nvidia investment in Safe Superintelligence headlined a week that saw roughly $8.2 billion raised ...

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Bolt.Earth Recognises 5,000+ EV Charging Technicians as Field Workforce Expands Across India
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Bolt.Earth Recognises 5,000+ EV Charging Technicians as Field Workforce Expands Across India

Bolt.Earth's first technician rewards programme highlights the maintenance workforce behind EV chargers, with its field ...

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Textile Exchange Opens Nominations for 2026 Climate and Nature Impact Awards
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Textile Exchange Opens Nominations for 2026 Climate and Nature Impact Awards

The textile sustainability group is accepting nominations until July 3, 2026, spotlighting prior winners in direct cotto...

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DB CEO Palla Denounces 'Organised Irresponsibility' as Punctuality Stays at 58.7%
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DB CEO Palla Denounces 'Organised Irresponsibility' as Punctuality Stays at 58.7%

Deutsche Bahn's chief Evelyn Palla blames 'organised irresponsibility' for the rail operator's failures — and warns that...

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Women's Sports Draw Bigger Ad Bets as Marketers Chase a Different Kind of Fan
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Women's Sports Draw Bigger Ad Bets as Marketers Chase a Different Kind of Fan

Rising women's sports viewership is pulling in ad tech platforms and DOOH campaigns, but the data infrastructure to back...

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School Specialty to Acquire Nasco Education U.S. in K-12 Supplies Consolidation
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School Specialty to Acquire Nasco Education U.S. in K-12 Supplies Consolidation

School Specialty, which supplies five in every six U.S. school districts, is acquiring Nasco Education U.S., uniting two...

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Progressive's Dr. Rick Flips the Script in New 'Let It Out' Campaign
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Progressive's Dr. Rick Flips the Script in New 'Let It Out' Campaign

The insurer's long-running character stops fighting 'Parentamorphosis' and urges young homeowners to embrace their inner...

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Egypt Gold Wins Two MENA Awards for Phygital Precious-Metals Investment
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Egypt Gold Wins Two MENA Awards for Phygital Precious-Metals Investment

Egyptian precious-metals firm Zahab Masr and Dr Fadi Kamel took two World Business Outlook MENA 2026 awards for their hy...

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Emirates NBD to Acquire HSBC Egypt's Retail Banking Business
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Emirates NBD to Acquire HSBC Egypt's Retail Banking Business

Emirates NBD Egypt has signed final agreements to buy HSBC Egypt's retail banking operations, including branches, ATMs, ...

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Master Trusts Unite to Fix 'Slow, Costly' UK Pension Transfers
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Master Trusts Unite to Fix 'Slow, Costly' UK Pension Transfers

Eight master trusts managing £162.7bn are backing open standards and automation to replace error-prone manual transfers,...

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Finance of America Pitches Reverse Mortgages as the Industry's 'Second Half' Opportunity
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Finance of America Pitches Reverse Mortgages as the Industry's 'Second Half' Opportunity

Finance of America urges lenders to turn aging borrowers into a new revenue line, arguing reverse home equity products c...

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ICE Mortgage Tech Logs Best Quarter Since 2022; Parent to Buy MarketAxess for $5.7B
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ICE Mortgage Tech Logs Best Quarter Since 2022; Parent to Buy MarketAxess for $5.7B

ICE Mortgage Technology posted $557M in Q2 revenue and an 8% operating margin, while parent ICE announced a $5.7B deal t...

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Zepto Delays IPO After Public Investors Value It at Half Its $7 Billion Peak
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Zepto Delays IPO After Public Investors Value It at Half Its $7 Billion Peak

Zepto is pausing its listing plans and raising private funds at about $4.5 billion after public investors valued the qui...

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Hormel completes sale of Brazilian Ceratti business to Zanchetta
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Hormel completes sale of Brazilian Ceratti business to Zanchetta

Hormel Foods finalised the sale of its Brazilian Ceratti meat brand to Zanchetta Alimentos, closing a deal first agreed ...

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French Winemaker Bets on Argentina With Antucura Wellness and Real-Estate Club in Mendoza
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French Winemaker Bets on Argentina With Antucura Wellness and Real-Estate Club in Mendoza

Anne-Caroline Biancheri is turning her boutique Mendoza winery Antucura into a wellness and private residential club, wi...

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India's Café Chains Absorb a Matcha Price Shock to Keep the Premium Drink Boom Alive
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India's Café Chains Absorb a Matcha Price Shock to Keep the Premium Drink Boom Alive

Matcha, hojicha and yuzu costs have jumped as much as 75%, but India's café chains are holding menu prices steady to pro...

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Maine Pulp Mill Faces $794,456 in OSHA Fines After Two Worker Deaths
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Maine Pulp Mill Faces $794,456 in OSHA Fines After Two Worker Deaths

OSHA says Woodland Pulp exposed workers to fatal hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen peroxide hazards; the mill has 15 days to...

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Wall Street Talent War Hits Litigation: Gibson Dunn Lures Wachtell Co-President Bill Savitt
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Wall Street Talent War Hits Litigation: Gibson Dunn Lures Wachtell Co-President Bill Savitt

Gibson Dunn poaches Wachtell co-president Bill Savitt and five partners, signaling the elite-lawyer talent war has reach...

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