Buyout firm Leonard Green agrees to buy a stake in UK-based Iris Software, which makes payroll and HR tools, from Hg in a deal valuing Iris at ~£3.15B (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)

Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:Buyout firm Leonard Green agrees to buy a stake in UK-based Iris Software, which makes payroll and HR tools, from Hg in a deal valuing Iris at ~£3.15B  —  Leonard Green will become a co-controlling shareholder of the UK firm alongside Hg, which is reinvesting in the […]

The 10 greatest JWST discoveries, so far

The ground in French Guiana literally shook as the rockets on the Ariane 5 launch vehicle ignited the morning of Dec. 25, 2021. The roar signaled the start of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) month-long journey to its current home some 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. Although […]