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...Citadel Securities, which has commanding positions in US stocks, Treasuries and swaps trading, has been at the vanguard of a group of ultrafast firms that have stepped into sovereign debt markets as tougher...
...Billionaire Rob Walton, heir to the Walmart retail fortune, acquired the NFL franchise for $4.6bn....
...A tie-up would combine Sony’s film franchises including Ghostbusters and Uncharted, with Paramount, which has had recent hits such as Mean Girls and Bob Marley: One Love....
...Below is a small representative group that, just on the numbers, caught my eye....
...The group was boosted by franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight films in the 2000s....
...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...SVB Financial bought the healthcare-focused advisory business for $280mn in 2019 as it tried to bolster its growing investment banking franchise....
...$450mn from Google and Spark Capital (FT) Wagamama owner suffers shareholder revolt over pay and appointments (FT) HSBC/SVB: franchise value matters as much to bank rescuers as assets (Lex)...
...When Emanuel’s Endeavor Group first bought into UFC in 2016, the mixed martial arts series had an enterprise value, including debt, of $4.1bn....
...As recently as May, F45 announced a deal with Fortress Investment Group, an alternative asset manager, to provide $150mn in off-balance sheet financing that would have allowed franchisees to pay their start-up...
...And despite all being tech companies broadly speaking, the Faangs are quite a diverse group of companies....
...Aston Martin puts a new driver in the hot seat The hardest part of keeping the James Bond franchise alive is changing the lead....
...Hult has been the driving force behind many of Tradeweb’s most successful US businesses, including the mortgage and Treasury franchises....
...Since then Ravitch has worked on deals involving more than 20 teams across different sports, including Joe Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets, David Beckham’s Inter Miami and Steve Ballmer’s Clippers basketball franchise...
...Unfortunate then for Google Cloud’s Head of Fintech to accidentally claim credit for the international crime and terrorist organisation that features in the James Bond franchise....
...Middle-market buyout firms and companies securitising everything from pharmaceutical royalties to restaurant franchises now turn to the lending businesses of Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management and...
...“The dominant tech franchises in 10 years will be very different from the platforms we all know today,” said Koch....
...Among the affected businesses was Ultimate Fighting Championship, the mixed martial arts franchise that Endeavor bought alongside private equity groups Silver Lake and KKR in 2016....
...Harris made a name for himself at Apollo’s buyout franchise — a business that has rarely looked stronger....
...The San Francisco-based investment group has agreed to take a majority stake in Legends Hospitality, the global concessions and in-venue experience company co-owned by two of the wealthiest franchises in...
...chord last week, predicting that “we’re going to see more change in our industry over the next 5 years than we have in the past 10 [presenting] interesting opportunities for us to invest [and] augment our franchise...
...In September it agreed to a deal for a UK joint franchise with Next after its business there was put into administration....
...One of these investments was into a fund that helped finance the films Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, and latest in the Men in Black franchise....
...A listing of Fenway Sports Group LLC, the holding company for the reigning English Premier League football champions and the 2018 World Series baseball champions, would be one of the most high-profile sports...
...Mr Harris juggled sports holdings that include a controlling stake in the Philadelphia 76ers basketball franchise and London’s Crystal Palace football club....
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