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Bain Capital has won its bid for Japan’s third largest agency ADK, which it was always going to do once WPP, a 25 per cent shareholder, had changed tack and decided to accept the offer. WPP originally opposed the bid. ...

WPP appears to have folded in the poker game for Japanese agency ADK according to a Reuters report from Tokyo. Reuters says it’s seen a draft statement from Bain Capital saying that WPP – which owns 25 per cent of ...

It’s not so often that you see WPP proffer an olive branch. Is its offer to raise its stake in Japanese agency ADK (left) from 25 per cent to 33 per cent such a move? ADK’s management wants to accept ...

Bain Capital Private Equity has extended its $1.3bn tender offer for Japanese agency ADK with ADK shareholder WPP, which has opposed the bid, taking ADK to arbitration over the way it has sought to terminate the agreement between the two ...

WPP’s dispute with Japanese agency ADK and putative new owner Bain Capital is heading to court, as it was always likely to. WPP owns 24 per cent of Japan’s third largest agency and, along with some other shareholders, thinks Bain’s ...

WPP has responded with its customary energy to Japanese agency ADK’s rebuttal of its arguments against a $1.3bn sale to Bain Capital (we publish these things verbatim because they are quite entertaining – it’s quite rare to see such a ...

Bain Capital is lining up a $1.3bn deal to buy quoted Asatsu-DK, Japan’s third biggest agency after the mighty Dentsu and Hakuhodo. WPP owns a stake in ADK. Bain Capital though is a private equity operation – it part owns ...