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...Wednesday marks 60 years since the release of the Fab Four’s first US album, Introducing the Beatles, including several of the tracks from their actual first album, Please Please Me, which had been released by EMI...
...Employers may qualify for corporation tax relief. EMI and CSOP are discretionary schemes, while SIP and SAYE are all-employee schemes....
...Large corporations began jostling to invest. So far, so stellar....
...to Sony Corporation of America “based on an enterprise value of $4.75bn”, leaving Sony with approximately 90 per cent of equity interest in the publisher, which would then become a consolidated subsidiary...
...First, he is considering a bid for a company valued at little more than 1 times revenues and with £150m of earnings — two-thirds of which are from large corporations rather than young, bearded self-employed...
...In addition to its own label, the Shiseido corporation owns make-up brands Laura Mercier, BareMinerals, Buxom and Nars, as well as a host of cult spin-offs that aren’t currently available in the west, such...
...When Guy Hands’ Terra Firma bought record label EMI in 2007, his private equity model so dismayed some artists that several — including The Rolling Stones — walked away....
...Unibail-Rodamco, the largest commercial property company in Europe, buying Westfield Corporation for $24.7bn. Now that is property dealmaking, writes Matthew Vincent....
...In 2003, Radiohead was released from their six-album record contract with EMI, allowing them to release their next two albums, In Rainbows (2007) and King of Limbs (2011), through _Xurbia_Xendless Ltd and...
...Mr Volk, a vice-chairman, looked after Citi’s ownership of EMI, the record label, which the bank acquired in a debt-for-equity swap in 2011....
...A “buyout” transaction – such as that undertaken by EMI’s scheme last year – is similar, but structured differently....
...PIC has conducted more than 50 pension buyouts since 2006, including a £1.5bn deal, the largest seen in the UK, covering 20,000 members of the EMI pension scheme....
...“The reality is that [in big corporations] you can build businesses at a scale that just isn’t possible as an entrepreneur....
...Almost two-fifths of the bulk annuity value in the third quarter was accounted for by a single transaction in July, when Citigroup sold EMI’s £1.5bn pension fund to the Pension Insurance Corporation, the...
...EMI, the British music group famous for signing The Beatles, Coldplay and Queen made headlines again this week – not for a new record deal, but for its pension fund....
...Citigroup has sold EMI Group’s £1.5bn pension fund to the Pension Insurance Corporation, in the UK’s largest pension insurance buyout....
...EMI agreed the largest pension buyout on record this year, a £1.5bn deal with the Pension Insurance Corporation in July, which took on responsibility for paying the pensions of the 20,000 members of the...
...“Not so long ago a billion pound deal would have been a rare event,” says Jay Shah, co-head of business origination, of Pension Insurance Corporation, a leading player in the de-risking market....
...Consultants said schemes were still keen to offload their risks and last month Citigroup sold EMI Group’s £1.5bn pension fund to one of Rothesay’s rivals, Pension Insurance Corporation, in the UK’s largest...
...A former First Boston and CSFB dealmaker under Bruce Wasserstein and Frank Quattrone, Mr Wiesenthal joined Sony in 2000 to oversee its entertainment strategy and became chief financial officer of Sony Corporation...
...He even rejoined the EMI Group in 1987, becoming senior finance manager, reporting to the finance director of EMI Records UK....
...Sir, The views of Patrick Zelnik (“A Universal EMI merger could rescue the music business”, Comment, July 17) were as welcome as they were needed....
...The People’s Daily reported on its website that China Investment Corporation was likely to acquire 4-10 per cent of Daimler, which would cost about €1.8bn-€4.5bn at the current market value....
...Terra Firma’s 2007 buyout of EMI, sealed just as credit markets began to freeze, has already unravelled....
...Harold Wilson’s government in 1969 appointed him to run RHP, which the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation was creating by merging Britain’s three main ball bearing manufacturers....
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