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...It reached a settlement with Elliott in June last year....
...Blackstone’s credit arm has hired Jane Bradshaw, previously Morgan Stanley’s co-head of leveraged debt capital markets, as a managing director and European head of capital markets in London....
...Durban has served on Twitter’s board since March 2020 as part of a co-operation agreement between Twitter and activist investor Elliott Management, which put pressure on Dorsey to resign as chief executive...
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco...
...Activist Elliott takes Toshiba stakeHedge fund Elliott Management has built a “significant” stake in Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, adding to what people close to the company described as a “wolf pack” of...
...Dorsey’s decision to leave is part of a truce struck with activist investor Elliott Management, which had pushed for Dorsey’s removal....
...Earlier this year, activist hedge fund Elliott Management took a 4 per cent — or $1bn — stake in the company and attempted to oust Mr Dorsey amid concerns over his leadership....
...Elliott, an activist hedge fund that owns a stake worth more than 4 per cent stake of Twitter, has named two directors to the company’s board: Elliott partner Jesse Cohn and Silver Lake co-chief executive...
...After initially looking to oust Mr Dorsey, Elliott has agreed that he stay in place on the condition that he lives up to challenging performance targets. 5....
...The FT’s Tim Bradshaw unpacks it all here....
...Despite the internal gripes, news of Elliott’s assault prompted an outpouring of public support from Twitter employees this week....
...It came after eBay conceded in March to calls from activist investors Elliott Management and Starboard Value to launch a strategic review of the business....
...Make sure you check out this deep dive by the FT’s Benjamin Parkin and Tim Bradshaw....
...It’s clear how Elliott feels about Dorsey, which is why the FT’s Hannah Murphy and Tim Bradshaw spent time with other investors and Twitter employees to get their views....
...Tim Bradshaw reports the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak is pressing ahead with a new digital services tax focused on large US technology companies, despite complaints by UK-based groups that they...
...Elliott builds SoftBank stake Elliott Management, the activist hedge fund, has built a more than $2bn stake in SoftBank and has been pressing for changes at Masayoshi Son’s sprawling technology company....
...One scoop to start: Masayoshi Son explored an audacious leveraged buyout of SoftBank over the weekend with investors including Elliott Management and Mubadala before opting for asset sales to fund a huge...
...Nic Fildes and Tim Bradshaw reveal Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is among the backers of a new hotel start-up aimed at creating a “Club Med for Millennials”....
...Global technology writer Tim Bradshaw predicts what he might be reporting on a year from now....
...Paul Singer’s Elliott Management was one of the top shareholders in NXP as of June 5, while hedge funds, including Pentwater Capital, Soroban, DE Shaw, Farallon, Och-Ziff, York Capital, Arrowgrass and Tyrus...
...Elliott Management has been all over the news lately....
...Meanwhile, some shareholders, including hedge fund Elliott, have been pushing Qualcomm to increase its offer for NXP....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw in Los Angeles...
...Activist investor Elliott Management recently demanded that the US company pay more....
...Ben Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, told BBC News that Mr Corbyn should “call off these Momentum thugs”, and “expel these people if they are members of the party”....
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