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...Private equity firm Clearlake Capital and financier Todd Boehly led the £2.5bn acquisition of the Premier League club last year....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...If you missed our best of edition on private equity and hedge funds from Thursday, catch-up here. We’ll be back on Tuesday, January 12....
...industry has cause to celebrate....
...That was the message delivered by Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, as more than 2,000 bankers and executives tuned in to a virtual conference in April....
...former global head of Standard Chartered’s private bank....
...Feldman et al. have a sense why that is:The access to capital investment and the ability to spread risks among many small shareholders appears to facilitate heavier investments in R&D, arguably the riskiest...
...Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan Letter in response to this article: Uber et al are not entitled to ‘own’ anything / From Stephen Swift, London, UK...
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...Flag as Important Tom Perkins dies The pioneer of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry and, more recently, one of its more controversial and outspoken figures,has died at the age of 84....
...“I get the theory relating to cost of capital, I’ve just never seen it work,” Mr McNabb told the Financial Times....
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...The competition for sites may force Smashburger, which is partnering with AL Ventures, a subsidiary of Domino’s Pizza franchisee MSG Group, to open its first UK site outside of the capital....
...“Petsmart is an iconic brand and the category leader in the growing pet retail industry....
...An old fashioned tussle is good theatre, but Mr Ackman et al are company directors, not actors. Their public spat is doing JC Penney no favours at all. Email the Lex team in confidence at lex@ft.com...
...While the private equity industry is trying to embrace transparency to repair a tarnished reputation, the CVC dealmakers say they still take the word “private” seriously....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...The company currently has private equity investment from TA Associates and Sequoia Capital, among others, while Spreadtrum Communications, the Chinese chipmaker, also has a stake....
...Abdulrahman al-Tuwaijri, the chairman of the Saudi Capital Markets Authority, drove home the message of incremental opening on Tuesday, telling a meeting of executives from listed companies, as reported...
...Sun European, the regional arm of US group Sun Capital, also owns the Dutch retail brands Scotch & Soda and V&D, and Neckermann.de, the German mail order business....
...Guy Hands and his private equity team at Terra Firma bid £4.2bn for EMI in 2007 but were unable to meet the payments on loans provided by Citi to finance the deal....
...The three-month T-bills will be sold on Aug. 8 and will be split equally between Islamic and non-Islamic securities, Al- Thani said....
...A bidding trio of CD&R, France’s Axa Private Equity and Canada’s Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec pre-empted a formal sales process for Spie, one of Europe’s largest electrical services companies....
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