BLOOMBERG Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd is close to paying A$730 million ($494 million) to its private equity owner Bain Capital, months before a possible listing in Sydney, according to a person familiar with the matter. The planned capital return is almost exactly the same size as the amount that Bain paid for Virgin Australia’s equity in 2020, said the ...

BLOOMBERG Beyond Meat Inc seeks to raise as much as $200 million in an equity offering as the plant-based burger maker contends with falling sales and a decline in cash reserves. The company filed a prospectus supplement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a statement. The proceeds will be used for “general corporate and working capital purposes,” ...

BLOOMBERG A European Union (EU) court toppled Germany’s massive bailout of Deutsche Lufthansa AG at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, backing Ryanair Holdings Plc’s claims that the package unfairly tilted competition towards its rival. Terms of a €6 billion-euro ($6.6 billion) recapitalisation approved by the European Commission were too favourable to Lufthansa, and demands that Europe’s biggest network carrier ...