Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co.’s independent board members were expected to meet on Tuesday to select Carlos Ghosn’s successor as chairman, with their choice to replace the arrested car titan an indicator of the direction the automaker’s alliance with Renault will take. The most likely successors fall on each end of the spectrum: Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa, who has emerged ...

Bloomberg Unilever’s departing Chief Executive Officer Paul Polman, in a major push into India that may be his last deal, agreed to pay about $1 billion more than his closest rival for GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s consumer business in the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The Anglo-Dutch conglomerate agreed to pay $3.8 billion in cash and stock from its ...

Bloomberg Intellectual property theft is one of the main points of contention in China’s dispute with Washington, and just days after President Xi Jinping promised to resolve the US’s “reasonable concerns,” China has announced an array of punishments for IP theft. The government set out a total of 38 different punishments to be applied to IP violations, starting this month. ...