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...“In any organisation when you have transition to a new leadership it’s complicated to have the old leaders hanging round,” observed the Sequoia LP....
...But the board could consider whether there are grounds to terminate HSF’s contract with HSM, according to a person close to the situation. That would remove HSM’s option to buy HSF’s portfolio....
...Cliff White headed the Justice Department’s bankruptcy “watchdog” unit, the US Trustee Program, for 17 years prior to his retirement in 2022....
...The US antitrust issue was complicated by the Dutch government’s attempts to cut flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on environmental grounds, a plan it abandoned at the end of last year but which had...
...This knowledge, Blackstone said, stemmed from its portfolio of hundreds of companies and thousands of real estate positions which together provided on-the-ground data points as economic portents....
...But with valuations still in the doldrums, it is hard for would-be buyers and sellers to find common ground....
...One sector in particular has become a hot new hunting ground: accountancy firms....
...In addition, some interest rate hedges that had gained substantially in value lost ground amid rising expectations of interest rate cuts from the US Federal Reserve....
...The company is also in line to receive a windfall from a US court ruling that increased royalty payments....
...But detractors blame firms for sins from running nursing homes into the ground to snapping up the dirty assets of oil and gas majors as they divest from fossil fuels....
...Last year, a Russian court seized the $750mn proceeds on the grounds that Magomedov’s brother had corruptly obtained the stake during his time in the senate, which he denies....
...Rivals are thin on the ground. Traditional banks are too constrained by regulation, market conditions and politics....
...In recent years, it has begun to expand in rocket launch technology through a majority stake in German launcher start-up Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), and in ground stations and digital applications for...
...Blackstone has spent more than $1bn in recent years to buy land to build new data centres in five states across the US, according to two sources familiar with the matter....
...A few corporate buyers have helped private equity LPs this year....
...from American LPs....
...The US is also a prime hunting ground for artificial intelligence companies as the industry expands....
...The Bay Area accounted for a quarter of all US venture capital deals in 2014, but that figure has declined to just over 20 per cent last year as the region loses ground to New York and Los Angeles, according...
...Commission, which has taken a more adversarial position under its leader Lina Khan, has been scrutinising shale gas producer EQT’s $5.2bn deal to buy private producer Tug Hill for months on anti-competition grounds...
...Behind the scenes, Carlyle’s efforts to raise a new $22bn buyout fund had nearly ground to a halt....
...“If MSG Sports is his training ground, it has not been a good one,” Disney’s presentation stated. Trian declined to comment....
...AT1s fell as much as 19.5 per cent in the month to the end of Monday, according to an iBoxx index of such debt, although they have since recovered some ground....
...We believe we have the most favourable resident policies among any large landlord in the US For two years, Blackstone chose to not make a single eviction for non-payment across our US rental housing portfolio...
...This company is like you’re in a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don’t work,” Musk said....
...Our colleagues have compiled a helpful look ahead about what to expect: The trial will take place in a high-security courtroom on the grounds of one of Germany’s largest prisons....
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