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...(FT) News round-up CVC in talks to set up $4bn global tennis group (FT) Barclay family settles dispute over bugging at Ritz (FT) Blackstone to buy datacentre operator QTS realty trust for $6.7bn (Wall...
...Cerberus first invested in the company in 2006, and along with the property groups Kimco Realty, Klaff Realty, Lubert-Adler Management and Schottenstein Stores bought it from Supervalu in 2013....
...Citadel is suing GSA Capital Partners and five senior GSA executives, alleging they induced a Citadel employee to supply “proprietary and highly confidential information” to GSA....
...At YouTube, advertising revenue topped $15bn in 2019 — more than that of the US TV networks ABC, NBC and Fox combined....
...Venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures gained the ability to cash out on Tuesday, locking in gains following the company’s May initial public offering....
...Under pressure from Senvest Management, a New York hedge fund, Colony last year slashed the management fees it collects from Northstar Realty Europe, a publicly traded real estate investment trust....
...quipped Mr Harmon, the chairman of capital markets at Cushman & Wakefield....
...The company has been targeted by the New York hedge fund Senvest Management over Northstar Realty Europe, a publicly traded real estate investment trust from which Colony collects management fees....
...At one point, there were three Northstar entities: Northstar Realty Europe; Northstar Realty Finance, also a Reit; and Northstar Asset Management, which was meant to manage and earn fees on the other two...
...Colony Capital, a real estate company that grew by investing in distressed mortgages after the financial crisis, merged with Northstar Realty and Northstar Asset Management in January last year to create...
..., according to Real Capital Analytics....
...KKR and Bain Capital declined to comment....
...Toys R US — which was taken private in a $6.6bn deal in 2005 by Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Vornado Realty Trust — has roughly $400m of secured and unsecured debt maturing in May and October...
...Since KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty took the company private in a leveraged buyout in 2005, the company has spent more than $250m a year servicing some $5bn of long term debt....
...Mr Ferro, Tribune’s chairman, has “wasted no time in putting his stamp on the company” and has “looked for ways to silence the dissident stockholders’ voices”, Capital Structures Realty alleges....
...● Related analysis: Alphabet’s transformation is more complex than ABC...
...Apollo is buying control of the vehicle from real estate entrepreneur Nicholas Schorsch, who controlled American Realty Capital Properties, a Reit that has had significant accounting issues....
...Variety has reported that Disney-owned ABC is developing original shows for its own streaming platform — not Hulu....
...They now have support from shareholders representing 31.6 per cent of Songbird’s free float, having received letters of intent from EMS Capital, Madison International Realty and Third Avenue Management....
...Existing investors also include Vikram Pandit, Citi’s former head, and venture capital firms Spark Capital and Canaan Partners....
...Those discussions came less than three months after North Star had itself been the subject of a takeover offer from rival American Realty Capital Property....
...Apax acquired Orange Switzerland in 2011, a year after CVC Capital Partners bought Sunrise, another Swiss-based mobile phone company....
...The consortium – which also includes Kimco Realty, Klaff Realty, Lubert-Adler Partners, and Schottenstein Stores – will pay around $40 per share for Safeway, including $32.50 in cash....
...Equestrian estate, Santa Maria, Mallorca, Spain, €12.5m Where In Santa Maria, an area of central Mallorca, 19km from the island’s capital, Palma de Mallorca, and its international airport....
...Casco Antiguo, Palma, Mallorca, €4.8m Where Overlooking Palma Cathedral in the centre of the capital of the largest Balearic island off the coast of Spain, six miles (11-minute drive) from Palma de Mallorca...
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