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...The cash from New Mountain, together with some debt financing, will be used to return capital to current partners, buy out retirement obligations to former partners and build a war chest for investment,...
...The money will predominantly be used to buy out retirement obligations to former partners and return capital to its 600 current partners, as well as to recapitalise the balance sheet and build a war chest...
...GH: So far we’ve had this [generative AI] as a toy rather than as a tool....
...Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told the Financial Times that the EU must wean itself off Russian nuclear fuel “as fast as possible” to stop Moscow using revenues to fund its war chest....
...Of course, it’s possible you do feel the seconds ticking by and the panic spreading through your chest as life passes by and you careen towards death. Maybe that’s why you’re bent over....
...Byju’s had used loans and a war chest of more than $2bn, gathered from venture capital during the pandemic, to go on an acquisition spree, aiming to capitalise on the trend towards online learning and become...
...“It was jarring sitting amid baby toys, suddenly going from ‘mum’ to ‘work’,” she recalls. “Adjusting to that mindset was very hard when you’re not leaving the house.”...
...As Arm returns to the public markets this week, albeit in the US, SoftBank’s expected proceeds of up to $5bn will replenish Son’s war chest — and create yet more dealmaking work for Raine....
...“This may be the last time a film-maker will be allowed to go to a foreign country with a big budget and all the toys and bells and whistles that really make a big adventure movie.”...
...(On the day of our interview, she was dressed in a white tee with “Santorini” printed across the chest.) “I feel like I’m becoming more of an appreciator, rather than a contestant,” she says....
...“We are also a beneficiary of this de-banking of the world because the assets that we need . . . were the kinds of things that used to go on to the balance sheets of banks, investment-grade private credit...
...She would purr like a toy tractor and curl up on my chest for warmth while I watched bad films, and she never once judged me. Risk or caution, which has defined your life more?...
...In the reverse, WWE made $130mn from consumer products such as toys; UFC’s equivalent was just $55mn....
...He also clinched a $12bn deal to buy insurer and toy manufacturer Alleghany....
...The family are natural collaborators. As a child, she and her mother would draw and make toys....
...“They’re like treasure chests,” he says of the Birley containers. “The child in everyone wants to look, or hide something, inside a box. It’s a fascinating, and very human, instinct.”...
..., at its discretion, from the date it became an investor in SVF2 LLC to the end of the company life of SVF2 LLC....
...Toys “R” Us, for instance, fell into restructuring....
...It has already breathed new life into struggling UK toy chain Hamleys, which became Reliance’s first international retail brand in 2019....
...All my friends are having babies at the moment, so I have given a few of these now, usually with a little cane toy with bells inside. $140 And the best gift I’ve received is a vase by Dinosaur Designs,...
...All the while, she was losing blood from the wound on her thigh. At one point, Sarah felt like ice was spreading across her chest and starting to envelop her entire body....
...“It used to be, ‘Well, it’s Barry’s daughter, she’ll throw her toys out of the pram.’ I remember hearing someone say that once and I just fronted up to them....
...’s midterm elections and toys with another run for the White House in 2024....
...Ambani’s oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance has made several overseas acquisitions, including British toy store Hamleys, but has tended to focus investments on expanding its domestic businesses....
...And so that tendency to keep things close to his chest, that’s being seen by several people who work with him as a negative for the company....
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