Hints and tips:
...I’m not joking. But I’m kind of joking,” said one longtime adviser to the Murdochs, referring to the HBO television show about a fictional media empire....
...to c.$1.2bn....
...The UK’s Takeover Panel, which oversees local deal activity, has named Barclays’ co-head of M&A for Emea Omar Faruqui, as its director-general....
...Putin’s 2022 mobilisation order created mass panic, with queues of cars forming at Russia’s borders as hundreds of thousands fled the country....
...I’m hoping you’re ahead of me here....
...Here is another example: I am gonna be long DJT, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp....
...Investment bank M&A can work if the staff and clients the buyer wants to retain choose to stick around for long enough to justify the costs. That’s all that matters really....
...A senior IRGC commander killed in Syria, IRGC being the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps....
...Before forming the rap group Public Enemy in 1985, Chuck D was a graphic design student....
...But if somebody says to me, well, economics suggested A, B, and C, now that we look at the evidence, we realise that A, B and C are true....
...The depth of Microsoft’s failure has been evident in the hardening international regulatory consensus that has been forming against the Activision deal....
...At one point, a rep has to retire mid-conversation, dizzy from all the inhaling and, like a fallen infantryman, is replaced by the next man in the corps....
...After a string of departures, forming new allies has never been more key for the man at the top....
...Back of the envelope calculations suggest Adobe is paying c. 12 per cent of market cap for an additional 3 per cent of ARR....
...Centerview also accuses him of a “shameful” breach of his employment contract by allegedly forming Tidal while still employed by Centerview....
...Once they have done this I’m sure Twitter will be able to attract more advertisers.”...
...“I kind of realised that I’m putting in all of this work and this is a multibillion-dollar company and I’m just making it by. Why is that the case? I can do something about that....
...Perhaps I’m naive....
...Firms like Lazard are desperate to woo C-suite executives as a means to eventually get those mandates....
...M&C Saatchi abruptly removed its biggest shareholder Vin Murria from its board after the advertising group rejected her hostile takeover bid and agreed to an offer from Next Fifteen....
...And, soon, I’m going to see him there. Christopher Miller is the FT’s Ukraine correspondent....
...Pilita ClarkHi, I’m Pilita. Kári HelgasonPilita. Kári. Pilita ClarkGreat to see you. Kári HelgasonWelcome. Pilita ClarkThank you. Kári HelgasonYeah. Sorry I’m a bit late....
...“We can add different processes, like snow forming in the top of thunderheads, and how that snow melts in the rain as it falls through the atmosphere,” says Gross....
...“We ask you to think again,” read the letter, whose signatories included leading executives from advertising groups Publicis, Havas and M&C Saatchi....
...I’m Jemima Kelly, and this is a bonus episode in our series on the future of crypto....
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