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...Media groups more focused on traditional forms of advertising are already feeling the effects....
...A group of investors led by Klein merged their first Spac, Churchill Capital Corp, with Clarivate, a little-known data analytics company, in 2018....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...What was once a fading PC business has been transformed into a diversified technology group going head-to-head with the likes of IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...group’s transformation through a series of deals that included selling GE Capital in 2015....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...Reducing pay across the board would be an obvious solution to grappling with a lower-revenue environment....
...Dubai Holding Commercial Operations Group, which has debts of about $6bn, contains some of Dubai’s corporate jewels, such as hotel chain Jumeirah and business park operator Tecom....
...One trader calls it “a European solution to a global problem”....
...In other words, the company that runs the good old New York Stock Exchange – complete with opening and closing bell ceremonies that you see on business TV every day – is really a derivatives shop....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...RP: Sure, it’s not great to read in the newspaper that everything is being blamed on the bankers - clearly that’s not good for our business....
...So he expects the deals in which his group specialises to need more time and money to complete....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...A year ago, the king of luxury together with Colony Capital, the US private equity group, splashed out about $5.2bn to buy a 9.1 per cent stake in Carrefour, the largest hypermarket chain after Wal-Mart....
...There can be little doubt that Eden et al will achieve or better the top-of-the-band pricing of $18.50-a-share....
...its business ahead of a sale....
...And Morgan Stanley is one of the new houses that have pitched for the business, along with Deutsche Bank, CSFB and Goldman Sachs....
...Rappaport’s group has set up teams of people who can help families preserve legacy properties such as wineries and ranches, even if the children have no desire to go into the family business....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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