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...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the listed UK music rights investment company, has agreed to a $1.4bn takeover from US rival Concord Chorus....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the listed UK music rights investment company, has agreed to a $1.4bn takeover from Apollo-backed rival Concord Chorus....
...Blackstone over the weekend made a proposal to the company’s board to acquire the music rights group for $1.24 per share in cash to try to derail the recommended offer from Concord....
...Blackstone has won the backing of Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s board as the US private equity group seeks to derail Concord Chorus’s proposed $1.4bn takeover of the UK-listed music rights investment company Blackstone...
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...Last week, Hipgnosis agreed on a deal with its US rival Concord Chorus, backed by Apollo, to take the highly watched company private. Then on Saturday, all that changed....
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...On Reddit there are complaints about the company going back three years, many of which claim they paid the company $1,000 or more and never got a loan....
...Kevin Shaw, national sales managing director at the property services company Leaders Romans Group, said: “2024 is off to a good start with more properties coming on and more sales happening.”...
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...Brexit and mortgage regulatory changes also played a role, according to Richard Donnell, executive director at property consultancy Houseful....
...Dan Eberhart, chief executive of Denver-based drilling company Canary, was supporting DeSantis until last week. On Tuesday, he said he would support Trump....
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...Its bet on Scottish Mortgage is not Elliott’s only recent interest in London-listed companies....
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...in credit conditions for secured lending is supporting the economic recovery, which may lead to stronger growth than the Monetary Policy Committee expects,” said Tomasz Wieladek, economist at investment company...
...from the Bank — had added “stability” to the mortgage market....
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...It’s worth noting also that while Hipgnosis imploded and sector peers like Concord have responded to higher-for-longer interest rates by bulking up, the music-as-annuity business model has kept working for...
...The board of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has announced a £1bn share buyback in an attempt to prop up its share price, as high interest rates and complex regulations continue to weigh on the investment...
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