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...Whether by coincidence or by design, one of the vessels in Gatik’s fleet is called the Buena Vista. The name of its registered owner in the Marshall Islands: Social Club Inc....
...Ithaca, whose majority owner is Israel’s Delek Group, said the transaction would create the second-biggest independent operator in the UK continental shelf, boosting its production above 100,000 barrels...
...Investors are sceptical that the group can compete in a cut-throat streaming business in which it is battling against much larger groups such as Disney, Netflix and Amazon....
...Barbie Inc: An increasing number of films revolve around the origin stories of everyday objects. Is Hollywood’s basket of ideas finally empty?...
...Job moves Vista Equity has hired Dan Parant as a managing director and global head of private wealth solutions. He joins from KKR....
...“Netflix has pulled away,” says John Martin, co-founder of Pugilist Capital and former chief executive of Turner Broadcasting....
...Buyout group Vista recently put in $1bn of equity to clinch the refinancing of $5bn of existing debt at portfolio company Finastra....
...Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Elliott and Vista declined to comment....
...“This is not a typical blackout,” said analysts at MoffettNathanson, a research group....
...More than a dozen banks were forced to put up their own cash to fund Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Management’s takeover of Citrix after investors balked at financing the debt package....
...Traders is something of a misnomer: this group doesn’t make money simply shifting goods from A to B....
...Still, the shares of a group of seven rival US-listed independent drillers, including Hess, Coterra and EOG, on average have not moved much since the beginning of summer....
...A similar survey in continental Europe the following year got 75 per cent support....
...They include shale producer Continental Resources, Gulf of Mexico-focused oil company Talos Energy and Phillips 66, an oil refiner....
...Former Salesforce co-chief Keith Block has launched Smith Point Capital with Vista Equity Partners’ Burke Norton and Longfellow Capital’s Chris Lytle....
...MSP Sports Capital, an investment firm with a stake in the McLaren Racing motorsport group, bought a controlling stake in X Games from Disney’s ESPN in October....
...And a group of banks led by Morgan Stanley ended up lending $12.7bn to Elon Musk to fund his $44bn takeover of Twitter themselves, debt they plan to hold on their balance sheet for months or longer....
...Media businesses dominate the earnings reports this week, in particular the quarterly results from Rupert Murdoch’s two titans of broadcasting and newspapers: Fox and News Corp....
...Interest was so scant that one of the investors to buy $1bn worth of the bonds was Elliott Management — which along with Vista Equity Partners is also one of the two private investment groups buying out...
...For private equity groups like Vista, which rely on banks’ fundraising machinery to buy up bits of corporate America, rockier credit markets will cap the size of buyouts....
...Pecker trained as an accountant and worked his way up through the ranks of the magazine unit of the CBS broadcasting network....
...Broadcasting group HBO was the biggest trophy. The fortified US media group was supposed to be a serious rival to the likes of Disney, Netflix and Comcast....
...Yesterday, he upped his offer to take private Continental Resources, in which he already owns a majority stake....
...The group as a whole, which now includes a property and thoroughbred horses business, made sales of €1.6bn....
...As investors have forced a fresh era of austerity on Hollywood, traditional media groups are struggling to make the numbers add up, while larger technology groups are viewed as being better able to swallow...
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