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...“We have built a leading global franchise in US rates products, and Euro rates is a logical next step,” Peng Zhao, chief executive of Citadel Securities, told the Financial Times on the sidelines of an investment...
...Billionaire Rob Walton, heir to the Walmart retail fortune, acquired the NFL franchise for $4.6bn....
...Skydance is offering to buy Redstone’s National Amusements, which controls 77 per cent of Paramount’s voting stock, and later merge with the two companies....
...If you want to own a company with a solid franchise and a little bit of expected growth — Waste Management or UnitedHealth or Marriott — you are going to pay up....
...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...The group was boosted by franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight films in the 2000s....
...It has also been underscored by rising valuations in MLS teams and expansion franchises....
...Citadel’s Cariste acknowledged the market for high-yield credit was “less electronified and more idiosyncratic, so it requires some further refinement in how we’re leveraging our existing franchise”....
...SVB Financial bought the healthcare-focused advisory business for $280mn in 2019 as it tried to bolster its growing investment banking franchise....
...UK’s competition regulator to divest the company....
...Bids have reached the second round; Winslow said the Bay Area franchise’s expansion fee is “the benchmark from here”. Is the league profitable?...
...The firm has hired Paul Russo, who had previously worked as global chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs’s equities franchise until 2018, as head of risk management for equities, the people said....
...F45 did not provide a comment from Gilchrist, who is still a director of the company....
...Apple and Facebook are thoroughly global consumer tech companies, one built around a dominant hardware franchise, the other around advertising against a no-longer-dominant but still immense social network...
...Aston Martin puts a new driver in the hot seat The hardest part of keeping the James Bond franchise alive is changing the lead....
...Hult has been the driving force behind many of Tradeweb’s most successful US businesses, including the mortgage and Treasury franchises....
...Since then Ravitch has worked on deals involving more than 20 teams across different sports, including Joe Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets, David Beckham’s Inter Miami and Steve Ballmer’s Clippers basketball franchise...
...When the business introduced a franchise model eight years later, Kraft acquired the exclusive licence for Sotheby’s International Realty France-Monaco....
...The company, owned by Comcast, has held the US rights to the Games since the summer Olympics in 1988 — a lucrative franchise that has raked in billions of dollars in advertising over the years....
...Among those to push for contrition from Numis was Iain McDonald, THG’s longest serving non-executive director, according to a person familiar with the companies....
...Middle-market buyout firms and companies securitising everything from pharmaceutical royalties to restaurant franchises now turn to the lending businesses of Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management and...
...“The dominant tech franchises in 10 years will be very different from the platforms we all know today,” said Koch....
...The company had hoped to raise $712m from its aborted 2019 IPO....
...Harris made a name for himself at Apollo’s buyout franchise — a business that has rarely looked stronger....
...Games chief Jade Raymond, who joined from Ubisoft where she had led development of the Assassin’s Creed hit franchise, has quit and her studios in Montreal and Los Angeles will close....
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