Bloomberg KKR & Co. said it is taking over Taiwanese company LCY Chemical Corp. in a deal valued at $1.56 billion, as the global buyout firm seeks to make additional majority stakes purchases in Greater China. A consortium led by New York-based KKR agreed to acquire all of LCY’s shares for NT$56 each, a 17.3 percent premium to July 20’s ...

Bloomberg Online fashion retailer Farfetch UK Ltd is buying a Chinese digital marketing agency to help sell luxury brands to consumers on Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat messaging service. Farfetch is acquiring CuriosityChina and will integrate it into its services division, providing the likes of high-end shoe designer Manolo Blahnik with packages of digital solutions. It’s been trying to boost its ...

Bloomberg China Tower Corp., the state-owned wireless infrastructure operator, has attracted Hillhouse Capital and a unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. as investors in its planned Hong Kong initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. Hillhouse funds and Taobao China Holding Ltd. are among the 10 firms that agreed to buy about $1.4 billion of stock as ...