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...Potential investors had raised concerns about the company’s business as well as how Neumann managed and controlled WeWork....
...Revenue is holding up, cost-cutting has come through and margins at the core business segments are improving. Is Big Tech back?...
...In doing so, the Assads brought one of their main economic rivals under their control....
...of the business....
...As Rowan said on Monday: “No one has done what we are doing. No one’s model looks like our model. Yes, there are elements of SunAmerica....
...They include a profitable investment in the Beats headphone brand, property holdings in Manhattan’s Tribeca district, and restaurants on Long Island in New York state....
...It’s a tough lesson for banks on the pitfalls of doing business in China....
...That has left banks holding shares in AMS worth more than $500m and nursing losses as shares in the company fell on Wednesday....
...And it was doing more besides....
...(NYT) Doing justice Preet Bharara sits down with Dave Chang to talk about his tenure as the US attorney for the southern district of New York and being recognised as one of the most successful prosecutors...
...In an interview with Bloomberg released on Tuesday, the renowned investor said he would probably split the $13bn Kingdom Holding Company’s by spinning off domestic property holdings and other assets into...
...The digital property marketplace launched the joint property search and mortgage broking service with National Australia Bank (NAB) in September....
...“You’ve got 10 times as much to do as a normal business to play in this space,” he says....
...From 2005 to 2007, Hilton spun out its hotels business, Cendant spun out its Wyndham hotel business, property group Lightstone paid $8bn for Extended Stay, the mid-range hotel company, Apollo paid $27bn...
...Starwood — the owner of the Sheraton, St Regis and W Hotel brands — had seemingly lost its way, unsure of how to ride the hotel industry boom....
...They sold policies which they knew did not serve the ends they were supposed to serve and in doing so treated their customers purely as an extractive resource....
...In Asia, the wealth is often quite newly minted – and even when it is not it has still mostly remained caught up in family businesses first and property second, leaving little for the banks to target as...
...(Financial Times) “The CFTC is seeking civil monetary penalties as well as disgorgement of ill-gotten gains from Intrade and TEN.”...
...Judging opportunities in Dubai’s tourism market is a tricky business these days....
...As well as crafting a new management team at Shuaa, he has sold non-core assets, such as Rotana, a regional hotel chain, and refocused on boosting fee-generating business, while also installing a new corporate...
...Some creditors are also hoping Lehman will revise its plan to monetise its remaining assets, such as the properties of apartment complex owner Archstone....
...Carlyle Group’s minority holding in China Pacific Insurance is likely to be among the most profitable deals any buy-out firm has done anywhere to date....
...He was put in charge of the Diwan as well as the Investment Corporation of Dubai, the holding company for many of the emirate’s more robust businesses....
...It does business for Gatwick; it does business for Heathrow. If I see they’re doing a film festival and I’m no longer doing a film festival… people say the competition took away my business....
...“Being in Darwen has not stopped us doing business internationally. We have suppliers in Brisbane, Hong Kong, Singapore and China among others.” If anything is holding the region back, it is skills....
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