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...Dell’s family office, DFO Management, has agreed to provide the first outside capital to 5C Investment Partners....
...Leigh O’Dell, a lawyer at Beasley Allen who sits on the plaintiff’s steering committee in the talc litigation, said the bankruptcy strategy is “cynical” and designed to slam shut the doors to the courthouse...
...News round-up Ex-Goldman banker’s 1MDB trial paused after new evidence is disclosed (FT) The complex route to VW’s planned Porsche IPO (FT) J....
...(NYT) Deal of the century With the help of Silver Lake’s Egon Durban, Michael Dell sidestepped cynics to pull off the largest tech buyout in history....
...William J. Stokes is a musician and member of art-pop band Voka Gentle....
...Job moves J Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe, who orchestrated the UK supermarket chain’s failed £7bn tie-up with Asda, is to step down after almost six years at the helm....
...Letter from Louis J Cutrona, Jr, in response to Tussle for tech supremacy powers US-China animosity David Zweig, in characterising the US-China trade dispute as a ‘tussle’, misses a crucial issue....
...Galleria dell’Accademia, Via Ricasoli 58/60, 50122 (galleriaaccademiafirenze.beniculturali.it)....
...probably a bubble: At the beginning of 2000, the 10 largest market-cap tech stocks in the United States, collectively representing a 25% share of the S&P 500 Index—Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, AOL, Oracle, Dell...
...It hasn’t been fully tested by foreign players and there is still room for them to come in,” said Rupinder Malik, a partner at J Sagar Associates in New Delhi....
...Adam Dell grew up in Houston, the son of a dentist and a stockbroker. His older brother Michael was a big deal in computing....
...Dell is more fortunate than most....
...In the world of hacking, one man’s criminal is increasingly another man’s spy, report Geoff Dyer and David J Lynch in Washington....
...Danielle de Niese in captivating form) and the Japanese businessman Hosokawa (Jeongcheol Cha, a solid bass) and between his interpreter Gen (the appealing tenor Andrew Stenson) and Carmen, a terrorist (J’...
...J Christopher Flowers grimaces as he remembers what a “lonely place” it was to be a private equity investor specialising in the embattled financial service industry in the wake of the financial crisis....
...The OCC-regulated banks have complained that they have been effectively shut out of deals including January’s $4.2bn acquisition by Carlyle of J&J Ortho, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson....
...Earnings Dell Q1 n/a (n/a) Trading and sales update McDonald’s Shareholder meetings Best Buy Formosa Petrochemical Corp Earnings Betfair FY 46.14p (30.80p) Trading and sales update J Sainsbury...
...The entire Dell board also faces being thrown out as well, he added....
...Funding for such a deal would come from a $5bn equity commitment in Dell – a mix of his own money, his firm’s capital and Dell shares he already owns – and another $7.4bn of cash on Dell’s books and $7bn...
...If a well known brand is only as good as its next product, an upstart can mount a challenge with a better one – as Asus laptops did when they took on Dell and Hewlett-Packard....
...The company’s factories in mainland China churn out a large portion of Apple’s new iPhones, as well as electronics for companies such as Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Dell....
...He has tried (unsuccessfully) to disrupt Michael Dell’s buyout of the computer maker he founded, dined with Apple’s chief executive and pressed him to return cash to shareholders, and last week planted board...
...Since Verizon’s offering, other large corporations, such as Dell , have raised debt funding to complete acquisitions and buyouts....
...(Financial Times) “J.P....
...US: Dell, Home Depot, JC Penney. “The Justice Department is investigating whether J.P....
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