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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Standout performers last year included Sir Christopher Hohn’s TCI, Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking....
...He was a day-one investor in venture capital giant Sequoia Capital, as well as other leading private capital groups including Benchmark Capital and Hillhouse Investments....
...Highlights The film producers behind Netflix’s Drive to Survive, the docuseries that helped revitalise Formula One, are raising around £30mn from George Pyne’s Bruin Capital, the FT exclusively reported...
...Oaktree Capital is seeking to raise $10bn for a new fund that will help finance large private equity takeovers, taking advantage of a void on Wall Street as other lenders are sidelined....
...Philippe Lafont’s Coatue lost 19 per cent, and Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital dropped 23 per cent. Light Street Capital was down 50 per cent by the end of September, the last update we’ve seen....
...Francisco Partners has hired Ashley Evans as a partner focusing on software investments. She was a managing director at Carlyle Group....
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...V. About two dozen people attended the final hearing in Ganieva’s civil action against Black, in a harshly lit room inside an Italianate office building in Tribeca. It was May 2023....
...Tiger Global, Coatue, Viking, Maverick, Lone Pine, D1 and Light Street declined to comment....
...Tiger Global and its fellow “cubs” — including Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management, Glen Kacher’s Light Street Capital and Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking — have been hit by “brutal” sell-offs in technology...
...“It’s the latest missing piece of the ecosystem,” says Julien Cordoniou, a London-based partner at venture capital firm Felix Capital....
...Deploy too many cars and they are wasting capital. Too few and they’ll be frustrating passengers with lengthy wait times....
...The interest in private assets comes on the back of huge gains reaped by some so-called Tiger cubs — protégés of Julian Robertson’s famed Tiger Management — such as Tiger Global’s Chase Coleman, Viking’s...
...Not all the cubs have gone on to become Vikings, Coatues or Tiger Globals....
...G4S/GardaWorld: security groups in a punch-up The protagonists in an increasingly bitter hostile takeover fight, Stephan Crétier and Ashley Almanza, could hardly be more different....
...Letter in response to this article: Westminster v Weymouth / From Carol Wilcox, Labour Land Campaign, Dorset, UK...
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...(NYT) News round-up Tesla short-sellers take further hit in battle with Elon Musk (FT) Dirty hedge-fund war exposes ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt’s love life (Daily Beast) Mike Ashley snaps up stake in...
...In August 2007, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan was joined by his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, in the Kazakh capital Astana to announce new pipelines that would carry gas from central Asia...
...Appearing via video link from a locked down Madrid, Ms Botin said those estimates were based on a “V-shaped” recession — a sharp shock followed by a rapid recovery, but stressed this was only one possible...
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...Founded by former child actors Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in 2006, The Row today has three standalone stores and 200 stockists....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...Revenues of £258m was also light v consensus £260m despite AUM in line suggesting some margin compression, which we suspect comes from the mix of flows....
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