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...Forlano then allegedly sent a text message saying: “next one i got you’ll be the first to know”....
...At the time of the settlement, Smith apologised to Vista’s investors for “any issues or concerns” it may have caused, saying that “I should never have put myself in this situation”....
...Apollo pays its ‘next generation’ of leaders “Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome,” is a memorable line coined by Charlie Munger, the 99-year-old vice-chair of Berkshire Hathaway....
...At the PE conference in Berlin, Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, called on business leaders to help resolve the tensions....
...Morgan Stanley led a $1bn credit facility for Blackstone’s $4.6bn acquisition of Cvent, which is majority owned by Vista Equity Partners....
...“I want so to see the Arno,” insists Lucy Honeychurch as she is confronted with the dismal vista at her Florence guesthouse in EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...“I’m just riffin’ so I can impress Ken Griffin,’” he told the crowd of some 10,000 people, according to people who attended, and, “If my band ever goes under, maybe I’ll become a hedge funder.”...
...BofA, Credit Suisse, Vista and Elliott declined to comment....
...They include Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital, General Atlantic and Vista Equity Partners....
...Blackstone’s latest real estate play “I love houses,” Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone chief executive, told an interviewer in 2008....
...“I would be lying if I said it wasn’t traumatic,” said Steve Daly, Instructure chief executive....
...“I am relieved that this has been fully resolved and is now behind me,” he added. A spokesman for Mr Smith and Vista Equity declined to comment....
...“The thing I don’t like about the whole asset class is I haven’t seen other groups sell that much,” says Mr Bravo. “Where is the money on the table, guys? I’d like to see how much is stuck.”...
...“In a very hot market it might give them the benefit of the doubt,” he said, “but when the market has seen such a big repricing, people are going to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.”...
...As such, we think this is ultimately a victory for the “tenderpreneur” [slang for officials/politicians who use their power and influence to score government tenders and contracts] faction of the ANC, rather...
...[Disclosure: I'm familiar with this transaction because I worked on it as an investment banker for Foros Group, the firm that both advised the independent (non-Pearson) directors of IDC and who also rendered...
...Rather, the First Cap Table (i) listed the total number of shares of common stock outstanding (163,890,919) and (ii) contained specific line items for the number of options and award shares outstanding,...
...“The last technology float I wrote up was Emis in 2010. And the one before that was Telecity in 2007,” said Mr Holway....
...In a note entitled “I have the fat lady on line two”, George O’Connor at Panmure Gordon said the Vista offer for Misys was almost certain to go ahead....
...“I am struggling to understand all the games theory and brinkmanship that are going on,” says Julian Yates, analyst at Investec....
...I have never felt so removed, exiled even, from Hong Kong’s bustling street life and the unforgettable night-time vistas of a modern-day Atlantis rising out of the sea....
...What is one to make of Julius Malema, the dyspeptic leader of the ANC’s Youth League?...
...The dim high interior, affording a vista over the countryside, is infiltrated with sunshine, which also seeps through the boughs of the massed dark trees....
...“I believe in journalism and believe it has a great future,” he says. “I don’t share the cultural pessimism [of publishers] at all....
...Then again, as Arnie said in The Running Man: I’m not into politics. I’m into survival....
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