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Due Diligence
Europe’s most famed private equity dealmaker steps down Premium content
...Hidden threat B. Riley Financial is under fire for funding a buyout linked to a firm that prosecutors call a fraud, The Wall Street Journal writes....
February 14, 2024
Transcript
How Wall Street became infatuated with the music industry
...Kaye Wiggins Well, actually, they’ve just refinanced it....
October 5, 2022
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
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Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
Boots UK Ltd
Ambani’s Reliance teams up with Apollo to make binding bid for Boots
...Supermarkets and “variety discounters” such as B&M and Home Bargains have been undercutting it on staples such as deodorant, shaving products and toiletries, while online rivals and department stores are...
June 9, 2022
Football
CVC and Advent seek super league ‘breakaway’ clause on Serie A deal
...They also fear that the best players could be diverted to play in the new European contest, with domestic leagues becoming in effect “B-teams”....
November 13, 2020
FTX Trading Ltd
How Sam Bankman-Fried seduced blue-chip investors
...Additional reporting by Mercedes Ruehl in Singapore and Kaye Wiggins in London The image in this story has been amended to remove the logos of Brevan Howard and Millennium Management....
November 11, 2022
European companies
Fraud and embezzlement allegations at Austrian group stun investors
...Additional reporting by Kaye Wiggins and Michael O’Dwyer...
February 28, 2022
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
News in-depthKKR & Co LP
The infrastructure boom behind KKR’s bid for John Laing
...It grew to become a major construction group, with projects including the UK’s M1 motorway, the Sizewell B nuclear power station and Coventry cathedral, but sold the business after losing millions on a contract...
May 25, 2021
Mergers & Acquisitions
UK competition watchdog provisionally clears Asda deal
...Asda will also introduce more concessions to its supermarkets after initial trials with DIY chain B&Q and toy retailer, The Entertainer, although it has denied it plans to sell clothing label George....
April 20, 2021
Asda Group
Asda’s buyers to sell off assets to fund £6.8bn deal
...Sports Direct, Very Group, Next and B&M have all sold and leased back distribution centres over the past 18 months. Asda’s board will initially have six members....
February 3, 2021
High yield bonds
Billionaire Asda buyers raise £2.75bn in record sterling junk bond sale
...Still, credit rating agencies rank Asda below investment-grade: it carries a double-B rating, putting it in the upper echelons of the junk bond market....
February 11, 2021
Asda Group
Walmart sells majority stake in Asda
...Observers predicted they would form more partnerships with other retailers to make better use of space in Asda’s stores, pointing to a recent trial in which DIY group B&Q will open four shops in Asda supermarkets...
October 2, 2020
News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
End of heady dealmaking leaves banks fretting over ‘turkeys’
...The bulk of the outstanding European bridge loans are ranked “single B” — above the worst tiers of junk-rated debt but still considered highly exposed to economic shocks....
March 23, 2020
News in-depthPrivate equity
Private equity titans cheer outlook despite virus threat
...There was a crowded karaoke night on Thursday; but the hottest ticket in town was Wednesday’s party in a train station-turned-event-space where R&B singer Usher and magician David Blaine performed....
March 2, 2020
Energy Source
Oil and gas’ quarter-two blues Premium content
...The $21bn purchase of petrol station chain Speedway by Japan’s Seven & i Holdings is a gamble on a product that risks becoming largely unprofitable in little over a decade, write Kana Inagaki, Kaye Wiggins...
August 11, 2020
Due Diligence
The hedge fund winners and losers of 2019 Premium content
...(FT) The real M.B.Z Mohammed bin Zayed, the leader of the United Arab Emirates, lurks behind the scenes but is arguably one of the most powerful figures in the Arab world....
January 10, 2020
FT Live
Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024
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Thursday, 14 NovemberNatural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Due Diligence
PE: the view from SuperReturn Premium content
...To top it all off, attendees heard stories about a late night party at an abandoned railway station where R&B singer Usher took to the stage and illusionist David Blaine wowed guests with some tricks....
February 28, 2020
Due Diligence
The Wall Street power behind Michael Milken’s pardon Premium content
...And we’ll give the last word to James B Stewart, the man who wrote the must-read book on Milken — Den of Thieves. You can read his column on why Milken can’t rewrite history here....
February 20, 2020
Due Diligence
The trusted financial adviser: from Rohatyn to Robey Premium content
...If you think about it, it’s a good combination: as the name suggests, IFF specialises in flavour and fragrances used in food while DuPont’s N&B business is all about textures....
December 17, 2019
Due Diligence
Lazard: Can Peter Orszag put the moves on Wall Street? Premium content
...Smart reads I call U‘BS’ A recent report by UBS claims that companies run by the ultra-rich are more profitable in what has been coined the billionaire effect....
November 14, 2019
Robotics
Wanted: workers willing to defy their robot bosses
...This is not a dystopian scene from a science-fiction B movie, but a real-life experiment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, in which researchers are trying to understand better how humans...
February 28, 2017
Personal Finance
My First Million — Richard Thompson
...I have the Tour de France Yellow Jersey worn by Bradley Wiggins and a 1947 print of the Australian invincible Test team led by Don Bradman....
April 15, 2016
Fund management
Fund managers coached like Olympians
...Shane Sutton, who trained Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy, has joined forces with investment consultancy Inalytics to offer motivational advice to its fund...
April 6, 2014
Property sector
GB cycling’s Shane Sutton hunts marginal gains in fund management
...Sir Bradley Wiggins, the first British winner of the Tour de France in 2012, was “obsessed by numbers”, he adds....
October 22, 2014
FT Magazine
The Pursuits Interview: Jeremy Darroch and David Brailsford
...“We looked very carefully at power outputs, how you can get fastest from A to B and optimise your chance of winning, and we developed a methodology off the back of that....
June 28, 2013
Life & Arts
The inside story of the Cadbury takeover
...Jenny Wiggins’ last piece for the magazine was about retrenchment at Starbucks. Read it at www.ft.com/starbucks. She was the FT’s consumer industries correspondent from 2005 to 2010....
March 12, 2010

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