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...The company laid off most of its workforce and filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in April, with $700,000 left in the bank....
...The Virgin founder’s second space company, Virgin Orbit, filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...Law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom estimated in April some 12 companies that merged with a Spac have sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeds....
...The Gambling Commission declined to comment beyond a statement it issued after Camelot initiated proceedings on April 1....
...Sir Richard Branson, who has a two-decade history of investment in Australian aviation, holds a 5 per cent stake in Virgin Australia....
...Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Group, dropped out of the process to focus on funding his companies during the pandemic....
...After two years without any hangings, Singapore has carried out six executions in 2022, the highest level since 2018, including an intellectually disabled man who was hanged in April....
...Just as reconstruction was completed in April 2020, it closed due to the pandemic....
...It made further disposals in April and August that totalled $450m worth of shares including the $300m sold this week, regulatory filings show....
...The first big deal to kick off the Spac frenzy was Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic....
...It has also been supported by a boom in its cargo business, but the group’s chief executive Shai Weiss warned in April of a permanent reduction in lucrative business travel....
...It was originally intended to launch from Miami last April for itineraries to the Virgin’s private resort in the Bahamas, but the company’s plans were brought to an abrupt standstill by the pandemic....
...forced Branson to inject new capital into the group....
...From April 1, six SEB funds were allowed to invest in the defence sector....
...Arguably, it is neither Bezos nor Branson who is winning this race....
...All have been successful with the exception of the first, in April 2015, when the rocket suffered a crash landing, though the capsule returned to Earth safely....
...Richard Branson has joined the crush of high-profile investors seeking to raise money for blank-cheque companies, pitching a $400m vehicle that would hunt for deals to expand Virgin Group’s brand in the...
...Funds raised by US-listed Spacs dwindled to just $3bn in April from $35bn in March while the number of new vehicles fell to 13 from 109....
...The company has upsized its IPO target by 14 per cent to $1.26bn since its initial filing in April due to positive investor feedback....
...This April marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight, which orbited Earth, lasted 108 minutes and travelled 26,000 miles....
...Procure already offers a sister US-listed space ETF, known as UFO, which has built assets of $127.5m since it was launched in April 2020....
...Fighter jets are very loud, as are the rocket craft that are due to take the billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to suborbital space....
...The fund will invest in the stocks being most talked up on social media and appropriately enough, the company most likely to be sent “to the moon” by the new ETF is Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space...
...“I really think there might be something in the culture when the US has Steve Jobs and the UK has Richard Branson,” says John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, the payments company that has dual headquarters...
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