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...Last year, Oasis, which largely owns stocks in Japan, became the biggest shareholder in The Restaurant Group before the Wagamama owner agreed a £506mn sale to private equity group Apollo....
...The Adams County government found in September 2022 that the Painted Pegasus transfer was “the largest single-operator well orphaning in state history”....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway averted a courtroom showdown over its purchase of a truck stop operator founded by a Tennessee billionaire, after settling a dispute centred on the value of the business...
...A lawyer representing the defendants did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...The role of the LME’s owner — the Hong Kong Exchange, which purchased the LME in 2012 — is also under a spotlight in this trial....
...The governor of Vladivostok subsequently told workers at the port that Rosatom was to become the operator and, ultimately, the owner of Fesco, according to the claim....
...DT added the claim was “opportunistic” and claimed P4U was seeking “to shift the blame for its demise” on to the mobile operators “when the simple fact is that P4U was bled dry by its private equity owners...
...The establishment’s operator Maybourne Hotels, which is ultimately owned by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, has pushed property developer Patrick McKillen...
...Additional reporting by Leslie Hook...
...Nord Stream 2 has been asked to, what they call unbundle the system, so that there will be a different operator of the pipeline, a different owner of the pipeline and so on....
...“Power prices have come down significantly, and we are seeing those effects across market,” said Michael Bonte-Friedheim, chief executive of NextEnergy, one of the largest owners of solar power in Europe...
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...Until his arrest, Mr Bouvier’s businesses thrived on their reputation for discretion and he was primarily known as the operator and owner of several freeports, vast warehouses used to store billions of dollars...
...But the deals had gone badly wrong for the London-based tour operator, leaving it liable at one point to buy hundreds of millions of US dollars....
...Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, did not admit guilt in the civil settlement....
...Prosecutors have now turned their sights on the vendors to defendants accused of spoofing....
...Shell, for example, is majority owner of a UK start-up called FarePilot, which operates an app to help taxi and ride-share drivers identify areas of high customer demand....
...Business owners, the questioner suggested, are drawn to the Buffett mystique....
...A merger would reunite CBS’s broadcast network and Showtime premium cable channel with Viacom, the owner of Nickelodeon, MTV and the Paramount film studio....
...Airbnb’s relationship with owners of apartment complexes has been a difficult one at times....
...Vladislav Reznik, another lawmaker, is currently standing trial in Spain alongside 17 other defendants accused of laundering more than €50m for two mafia groups....
...But it seems owners Marc and Nathaniel Meyohas alongside good friend Richard Perlhagen are still upbeat about the prospect of doing deals....
...Uber’s position is “the kind of legal argument that you would make if you were a defendant in a criminal trial, to find a linguistic loophole”....
...In the US, a consensus is emerging about the future of the costly packages of channels, or “bundles”, which are distributed and sold by cable and satellite operators....
...US department store operators are being squeezed by falling mall traffic, the rise of online shopping and a shift by consumers towards spending more on recreation and travel....
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