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Declan Byrne

Corporate Affairs Reporter

1534 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

Inside Super Micro Computer's Server and AI Infrastructure Business
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Inside Super Micro Computer's Server and AI Infrastructure Business

A look at the modular server maker's product range and role in powering data centres and AI workloads.

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Zain Saudi Arabia Q2 Profit Soars 60.6% to SAR 204mn on 5G Consumer Gains
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Zain Saudi Arabia Q2 Profit Soars 60.6% to SAR 204mn on 5G Consumer Gains

Zain KSA's second-quarter net profit surged to SAR 204 million from SAR 127 million a year earlier, driven by a richer r...

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AfDB Approves €100m Loan for Morocco's First Integrated LFP Battery Gigafactory
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AfDB Approves €100m Loan for Morocco's First Integrated LFP Battery Gigafactory

The African Development Bank is backing Gotion's $117m-equivalent project to build a large-scale lithium iron phosphate ...

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Brazilian Court Reverses Dismissal After Worker Clocks Out 4 Minutes Late
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Brazilian Court Reverses Dismissal After Worker Clocks Out 4 Minutes Late

A food sector company in Uberlândia fired an employee for just cause after he registered four extra minutes of work. A l...

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Manipal Health Enterprises sets ₹9,275 crore IPO price band amid muted grey market signal
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Manipal Health Enterprises sets ₹9,275 crore IPO price band amid muted grey market signal

The hospital chain will open its public offer on July 29. A fresh issue of 13.56 crore shares and an OFS aim to raise ₹9...

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MV Electrosystems IPO: Railway electronics firm backed by Madhuri Kela aims ₹290 crore
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MV Electrosystems IPO: Railway electronics firm backed by Madhuri Kela aims ₹290 crore

The ₹290-crore IPO opens July 30 and closes August 3. Here's what the DRHP reveals about the company's order book, finan...

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DroneShield Stock Plunges 13% Despite Record Revenue as Margin Squeeze Bites
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DroneShield Stock Plunges 13% Despite Record Revenue as Margin Squeeze Bites

DroneShield posted a 74% revenue surge to AU$125.8 million and a new AU$23.2 million European contract, but a drop in gr...

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How Tariffs, AI Wealth, and Data Centre Boom Shaped Europe's Q2 Earnings
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How Tariffs, AI Wealth, and Data Centre Boom Shaped Europe's Q2 Earnings

Philips’ tariff refunds, Hochtief’s data centre orders, and LVMH’s US luxury surge highlight a quarter where geopolitica...

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Keppel's Deep Value Hidden as Market Still Sees O&M Past
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Keppel's Deep Value Hidden as Market Still Sees O&M Past

Despite exiting offshore and marine, Keppel trades at a discount to global peers. Its asset-light model, growing funds u...

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HelloFresh Deploys AI-Generated Ads in Times Square Using Hightouch’s Ad Studio
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HelloFresh Deploys AI-Generated Ads in Times Square Using Hightouch’s Ad Studio

The meal-kit company turned to Hightouch’s new AI creative generator to speed up ad production and launched a one-day OO...

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Al-Mabanee half-year profit slides 35.6% after prior-year land sale gain and hospitality slump
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Al-Mabanee half-year profit slides 35.6% after prior-year land sale gain and hospitality slump

Kuwait real estate and hospitality group Al-Mabanee posted a 7.8% drop in second-quarter net income to KWD 15.6 million,...

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Europe's Answer to SpaceX? The Exploration Company Targets $2B Valuation with $300M Round
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Europe's Answer to SpaceX? The Exploration Company Targets $2B Valuation with $300M Round

German-French space startup The Exploration Company is reportedly closing a $300 million funding round that would value ...

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Mercedes-Benz Q2 Profit Jumps 13.5% as Cost Cuts Counter China Slump
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Mercedes-Benz Q2 Profit Jumps 13.5% as Cost Cuts Counter China Slump

Group earnings climb to €1.09 billion despite a 6% fall in unit sales, with efficiency gains and strong van sales offset...

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Brands Expand Creator Marketing Beyond Awareness to Drive Product Launches and Sales
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Brands Expand Creator Marketing Beyond Awareness to Drive Product Launches and Sales

New Digiday research shows 78% of marketers now use influencers for product launches, with brands like Ruggable and Mila...

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CXMT's Star Market Debut Smashes Records, Becomes China's Most Valuable Listed Company
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CXMT's Star Market Debut Smashes Records, Becomes China's Most Valuable Listed Company

CXMT raised $8.6 billion and its shares surged 466%, giving it a market cap of CNY3.28 trillion that topped ICBC and bri...

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Petronas Accelerates Brazil Expansion, Enters Fuel Station Battle with 350-Station Target
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Petronas Accelerates Brazil Expansion, Enters Fuel Station Battle with 350-Station Target

Malaysian oil giant Petronas, via partner Nexta, aims to close 2026 with 350 branded stations in Brazil's South, Southea...

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Bernard Arnault breaks silence to dismiss LVMH succession battle claims
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Bernard Arnault breaks silence to dismiss LVMH succession battle claims

The luxury titan used his first-ever social media post to amplify a three-page rebuttal of a Le Monde investigation port...

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DoorDash Teams With Shopify to Deliver for Small Local Retailers
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DoorDash Teams With Shopify to Deliver for Small Local Retailers

DoorDash has integrated its marketplace with Shopify, enabling small brick-and-mortar merchants to list products and off...

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Innocean Launches Music-in-brand Platform to Bridge Brands and Global Filmmakers at Busan
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Innocean Launches Music-in-brand Platform to Bridge Brands and Global Filmmakers at Busan

Korean ad agency Innocean will debut Cinema by Brand, a year-long programme that turns brand briefs into theatrically re...

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Super Retail Group: A Guided Tour of Australia's Auto, Sports and Outdoor Retail Empire
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Super Retail Group: A Guided Tour of Australia's Auto, Sports and Outdoor Retail Empire

From Supercheap Auto to Macpac, Super Retail Group operates four powerhouse brands across automotive, sports and outdoor...

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Coforge Q1: Organic Growth at 1.1%, Encora Deal Fuels Revenue, Net Profit Hit by One-Offs
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Coforge Q1: Organic Growth at 1.1%, Encora Deal Fuels Revenue, Net Profit Hit by One-Offs

Coforge's fiscal Q1 revenue jumped 21% on the consolidation of Encora Holdings, but net profit fell 15% as integration a...

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Clifford Chance Leads Spain’s Top Pro Bono Legal Initiatives at Expansión Jurídico Awards
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Clifford Chance Leads Spain’s Top Pro Bono Legal Initiatives at Expansión Jurídico Awards

From an offline AI tool for prisoners to legal battles for Afghan women, Spain’s leading law firms are redefining corpor...

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JC Flowers ARC in Advanced Merger Talks with ACRE to Form a Bad-Loan Powerhouse
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JC Flowers ARC in Advanced Merger Talks with ACRE to Form a Bad-Loan Powerhouse

The stock-swap deal would fold JC Flowers’ residual stressed-asset book into ACRE, creating one of India’s largest asset...

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Broker Q1 Earnings Under Strain as India's Derivatives Boom Cools
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Broker Q1 Earnings Under Strain as India's Derivatives Boom Cools

Sequential slowdown in equity derivatives and reversal of commodity rallies pressured most listed brokers in the June qu...

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Stax Collapse: $1.7M in Unfulfilled Orders, NAB and Staff Among Creditors Owed Millions
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Stax Collapse: $1.7M in Unfulfilled Orders, NAB and Staff Among Creditors Owed Millions

Liquidators report over 12,000 customer orders worth $1.7 million remain unshipped as collapsed activewear brand Stax ow...

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Vivo Owner Telefônica Brasil Lifts Q2 Profit 17% to R$1.57 Billion
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Vivo Owner Telefônica Brasil Lifts Q2 Profit 17% to R$1.57 Billion

Telefônica Brasil (VIVT3) posted a 17% rise in second-quarter net income, driven by revenue gains across mobile and fixe...

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Applied Digital Secures 150MW Lease with CoreWeave at North Dakota Campus
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Applied Digital Secures 150MW Lease with CoreWeave at North Dakota Campus

Applied Digital has landed a major lease with cloud provider CoreWeave for additional capacity at its Ellendale facility...

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Elon Musk's X Begins Rebuilding Safety Teams After Slashing Them by 80%
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Elon Musk's X Begins Rebuilding Safety Teams After Slashing Them by 80%

X (formerly Twitter) is reversing its two-year freeze on trust and safety roles, listing two dozen new positions after c...

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Russia to Clarify Gig Economy Worker Status in New 'White Book' by September
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Russia to Clarify Gig Economy Worker Status in New 'White Book' by September

Russian tax authorities and businesses are drafting a set of best practices to clearly define labor vs. civil contract w...

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Satya Nadella Warns Firms Outsourcing Their 'Thinking' to One AI Model Won't Survive
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Satya Nadella Warns Firms Outsourcing Their 'Thinking' to One AI Model Won't Survive

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a stark warning that enterprises must retain control of their prompts, data, and mode...

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