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...“There’s very little leverage and Spac sponsors very much want to get a transaction done,” said Anna Pinedo, partner and co-head of global capital markets at Mayer Brown, a law firm....
...Staffan Ekström, a partner in EY’s corporate finance arm who has worked on most of Embracer’s deals, told the FT’s Anna Gross he believed Embracer had set a dealmaking record when it bought 13 companies...
...Smart reads Less space for Spacs Former Trump economic adviser and Goldman Sachs veteran Gary Cohn is the latest player in the game of Spacs....
...“We should be seeing some manifestations of the…strategic benefits by now,” Elliott partner Jesse Cohn and associate portfolio manager Marc Steinberg wrote in the letter to the AT&T board....
...Quick hits Gary Cohn, Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser, resigned after falling out with the president over trade tariffs....
...faction associated with Mr Trump’s daughter Ivanka and influential son-in-law Jared Kushner — earning them the “Javanka” nickname in Washington gossip parlance — and featuring prominent members like Gary Cohn...
...For traders who had watched the bank spend millions of dollars creating its own cutting-edge stock trading franchise, Mr Cohn’s message was astonishing....
...“What we’re seeing here is still a tortoise-like forward motion,” Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research at JH Cohn, said. “It looks good by comparison....
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