* Blackstone's Wesley LePatner among victims, firm expresses heartbreak * Gunman opened fire in Midtown Manhattan office building * Blackstone's NYC office closed, Zoom call scheduled for staff By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK, July 29 (Reuters) - Bankers and traders returned to work on a somber Tuesday morning in Midtown Manhattan, New York's financial epicenter, one day after a shooting...

BRUSSELS, July 29 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators paused their investigation into candy maker Mars' $36 billion bid for Pringles maker Kellanova ( K ) on Tuesday while they await data requested from the companies. The European Commission, which acts as the competition watchdog for the 27-country bloc, last month opened a full-scale investigation into the deal, warning that it...

(Reuters) -Drugmaker Bristol Myers Squibb and private equity firm Bain Capital will launch an independent company focused on developing immunology drugs, backed by Bain's $300 million financing round, the companies said on Monday. The new company will work on five experimental drugs licensed from Bristol Myers, including a late-stage lupus treatment and a mid-stage psoriasis drug that has shown promise...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...