Bloomberg Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., rejected allegations that he paid bribes to a friend of South Korea’s former president to secure support for a key merger. Testifying for the first time in his graft trial, the 49-year-old said a 2014 meeting with then-President Park Geun-hye lasted less than five minutes while a pow-wow the next year …

Bloomberg Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s largest wireless carrier, is considering selling about a 3 percent stake in its tower unit through an institutional share sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. The New Delhi-based company could pare its holding in Bharti Infratel Ltd. as soon as this month, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because …

Bloomberg Daiichi Sankyo Inc.’s settlement of thousands of lawsuits blaming the company’s blood-pressure drugs for causing intestinal damage brings to $339 million the amount the drugmaker has paid for its handling of the medicines. Daiichi officials agreed on Monday to pay $300 million to resolve patient suits over its Benicar, Benicar HCT, Azor and Tribenzor blood-pressure treatments. The accord comes …