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...Orlando Bravo sees the path to a $20bn tech buyout Orlando Bravo, co-founder of Thoma Bravo, said the $131bn-in-assets group was eyeing an “arbitrage” in publicly listed software companies across the UK...
...It is now diversifying its order book in order not to rely on Petrobras in the future, with an eye on opportunities like towers for offshore wind farms....
...There were family snaps of her and her 12 siblings, but also older photographs: pictures of her grandparents and the farm they owned before it was lost during Mexico’s land reforms, a tiger her father apparently...
...In 2014, shortly after the company was taken over by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, Greifeneder decided it needed to think bigger....
...News round-up Anaplan agrees $10.7bn sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo (FT) Novalpina founders accused of ‘malign’ attempt to retake €1bn fund (FT) Evraz says bond payment blocked over Abramovich...
...(WSJ) News round-up Thoma Bravo agrees to buy RealPage in $10bn deal (FT) Defensive all-share mergers: desperate measures (Lex) Affirm gears up for IPO amid growing competition (#FintechFT) MGM Holdings...
...The tiny plots of family-owned vines, often part of a mixed farm, are generally surrounded by these plantations, most of which are in the hands of just three big companies and seem to have been imposed on...
...KKR’s $1.2bn acquisition of US retailer Mills Fleet Farm, for example, failed to secure any bank finance — forcing the private equity firm to use its own capital to back the takeover....
...“It’s incredible that we are not giving [small farmers] the option to cross the poverty line,” says Monsanto’s chief executive for northern Latin America, Manuel Bravo....
...Bravo to him. 42 Avenue Gabriel, Paris 75008 (+331-5836 6060; www.lareserve-paris.com)....
...There were a handful of grand houses, including an estate owned by the Duke of Bedford, some tracts of common land and one or two farms. The adjacent Hyde Farm was noted for the quality of its pigs....
...Clouds effervesce above flat fields striped with bands of white linen and dotted with humble farms. Only the tower of St Bravo’s juts above the low horizon....
...Bravo JM! But this is not really true, or fair, and not really the reason why I am becoming allergic to teaching Him....
...Moving into the farm supply chain, though, Coke needed WWF’s expertise in problems outside its core business, Mr Koch says....
...Bravo, Waitrose! Firm and dry. 13% £8.99 at 146 Waitrose stores Bear Creek, Zamora Zinfandel 2008 California From 40-year-old bushvines, apparently....
...He served in the Spanish army, retiring as a major in the royal guards upon his father’s death in 2002, when he inherited his title and devoted himself to the family business breeding ‘toros bravos’ (fighting...
...Before the financial crisis hit last year, he considered spinning off Fiat’s auto business from its more profitable (if less sexy) farm equipment, truckmaking, and other divisions to unlock value for the...
...Before taking over at Burberry from Rose Marie Bravo in 2006, Ahrendts worked at Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne, reviving the fortunes of the fashion houses through diversification....
...“Sarkozy has an incredible programme,” says Yab, “and I told him if he gets elected and only implements half of it, then frankly, bravo....
...Finally, Rose Marie Bravo, who helped turn round the British fashion business Burberry, stepped down this year....
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