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...Trian’s decision followed Disney’s nomination in November of outgoing Morgan Stanley chair and chief executive James Gorman and Sir Jeremy Darroch, former group CEO of Sky, as board directors....
...The most chaotic year in the venture capital firm’s 51-year history has prompted some investors to ask unprecedented questions of the firm and its direction under chief Roelof Botha, DD’s George Hammond...
...France’s hot artificial intelligence group Mistral is speaking with heavyweight venture capitalists including General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz about a deal to raise up to €400mn at a valuation between...
...Victor Lazarte, the co-founder and chief of gaming start-up Wildlife Studios, has joined venture capital firm Benchmark as a general partner....
...Index Ventures has appointed former Airbnb executive Vlad Loktev as a partner in its San Francisco office....
...Even as Vice’s prospects deteriorated, new and existing investors — including TPG, Sixth Street, Disney, Technology Crossover Ventures, James Murdoch’s Lupa and Antenna Group — pumped in more capital in...
...“[He] is a genius when it comes to consumer companies, but whenever he ventures out his record isn’t as stellar,” a person close to the investor said....
...Ares has hired Apollo Global Management veteran James Kim as a partner and head of European special opportunities, based in London....
...Black met Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s, around the time Epstein was buying Little St James, the private island where he later held dozens of girls in sexual servitude....
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...One invitation to start: Join us for our first Due Diligence: Dialogues event next week as DD’s James Fontanella-Khan and special guest Gregg Lemkau discuss the Goldman Sachs veteran’s move from the sellside...
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
...“The biggest issue on our agenda in terms of deal execution is the regulatory backdrop,” Latham & Watkins partner Nick Cline told DD’s James Fontanella-Khan....
...Axel Springer is already in a 50/50 joint venture with Politico for a Europe-focused version of its website....
...making large-scale investments in American housing, a lucrative but politically contentious strategy that the private equity firm pioneered in the years after the financial crisis when it set up a new venture...
...“This is the transaction investors have been waiting a decade for,” said James Targett, an analyst at Berenberg. “Ultimately, we now expect a material re-rating of Tate.”...
...Thirty Five Ventures extending their hands....
...Venture capital group Initialized Capital has added Parul Singh as a partner. She joins from Founder Collective....
...Chris James, its founder and the source of most of its initial capital, is a seasoned investor. He is best known for his prowess as a technology investor....
...The ANDAM prize money has allowed Saunders, who is self-funded, to turn her label into a more rounded business venture....
...Syncapay’s acquisition is backed by Centerbridge Partners, which will become a new shareholder in the group alongside the existing shareholders that include Bain Capital Ventures and Silversmith Capital...
...Singapore-based digital wealth manager Syfe has raised $18.6m in a Series A round led by US firm Valar Ventures....
...DD’s James Fontanella-Khan takes us through how a mega-deal at Occidental Petroleum took a turn for the worse in this M&A tale....
...Sandhya Venkatachalam has moved to Khosla Ventures as a partner. She has previously worked at Social Capital, where she led growth equity investing....
...Index Ventures has hired Adrianna Ma as its new chief operating officer, to be based in San Francisco....
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