Alliance Pharma has announced it has reached agreement over the £349.7m takeover offer from asset manager DBAY Advisors and Edmond de Rothschild’s Eres IV fund.

Global PE group Baird Capital is investing in Newmarket Strategy, a specialist healthcare, medtech and life sciences consultancy specialising in market access.

Angela Rippon is the celebrity ambassador for Care UK’s campaign “the Big Dementia Conversation”.