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...By merging Apollo with Athene Holding, the insurance company that he helped to create a decade ago, Rowan is turning a nimble asset manager into a lumbering insurance company that itself carries more than...
...One thing to start: a blank-cheque company backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is in talks to merge with 23andMe, in a deal that would bring the genetics testing company on to public markets at a value...
...Whether the balance of public opinion will shift if their holdings increase, like the results of their conservation plans, remains to be seen....
...The carrier secured a A$425m ($322m) 12-month loan facility from its four major shareholders Air New Zealand, Etihad Airways, Singapore Airlines and Richard Branson’s Virgin Group....
...While bitcoin’s early backers hailed the invention as a means of freeing money from the control of governments and banks, the likes of Blythe Masters and her start-up Digital Asset Holdings have focused...
...The company said both holdings were subject to a six-month lock-up agreement from the date of pricing....
...Ross already has a close relationship with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Money, having bought a stake in the company last year....
...Last week, Mr Hellman learnt that the city’s park commission renamed Speedway Meadow, the section of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park where the festival is held every year, “Hellman’s Hollow”....
...His main competitor for Northern Rock is likely to be Virgin Money, Richard Branson’s banking arm....
...The 696m shares were bought just as a bid for ITV from Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and the newly-merged NTL and Telewest cable companies was reaching an advanced stage....
...Last year’s approach is understood to have failed principally because the bidders would not pay the $34 a share price for which Bill Huff was said to be holding out....
...It’s bad timing for Sir Richard Branson, just as he cuts up rough over BSkyB and ITV....
...Mr Huff, who helped orchestrate NTL’s merger with Telewest, has since reduced his holding to below 7 per cent....
...Whether another European cable asset ends up in private equity hands will be decided instead by Sir Richard Branson and a group of US investors, led by Bill Huff....
...The Sunday Telegraph ■Sir Richard Branson is set to merge Virgin Mobile with NTL, the cable company, to create an entertainment and communications giant worth £4.5bn....
...By Friday, despite Branson's opposition, Corrigan had drummed up enough acceptances for his cheeky A$1.90 a share hostile offer - down from the A$2.25 at which the airline floated just 15 months ago - to...
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