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...Its largest holdings included Alphabet, Canadian National Railway, Visa, General Electric and rating agency Moody’s as at the end of September, according to a regulatory filing....
Et tu, Lone Pine?
...Unilever shareholder opposition Unilever is as British as Marmite and, er, Dove soap, and the notion that its headquarters will move from beside a bridge over the river Thames to where a dam was constructed...
...Edward Luce responds Rana, I'm so behind on the Google antitrust issues and that I had to Google it on, er, Google....
...Shares in Unilever fell 4 per cent, with some blaming the fed-up truckers and others the tracker funds that would become forced sellers of their holdings....
The campuses of elite universities are favoured hunting grounds for many investment groups
APG appoints Ronald Wuijster as chief of its €475bn asset management division
...The largest European deal into the US came in January when privately held consumer group JAB Holding agreed to pay $18.7bn in cash to acquire soft-drink maker Dr Pepper Snapple and combine it with its Keurig...
...Unilever is also holding out the possibility that it could opt for a public offering of the spreads business if it believes it can get a higher price....
...Tesco declined to comment on the Delores Holdings Ltd short position in its shares....
Previous deal to sell LED unit to Chinese investors was blocked by US regulators
Shares in Japanese group’s key lenders drop as fears rise of debt-for-equity swap
...The press release noted debt financing would come from Goldman Sachs Bank USA and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC. The bank also provided M&A advice to Thermo Fisher....
Judges in Netherlands rule in favour of exchanges operator in long-running case against rivals
...Tech start-ups in Europe can have a tough time, Mr Wennink says, because fundraising in Europe is harder than in Silicon Valley. “European money is conservative,” he says....
...Another of his gifts helped too: he had mastered Italian in six months. He learnt it as he had German and English: not in school but rapidly in practice....
After reviving the television business, the ex-Royal Mail chief is taking a digital turn
...The insurance unit, one of the country’s largest providers of home and car insurance services, was formerly owned by Espirito Santo Financial Group, a family holding company....
...Both Liberty and Vodafone are holding talks with the private equity owners of Ono, which is separately working on a flotation in Madrid this year, people with knowledge of the matter said....
Malone is on the prowl for acquisitions
...The transaction follows another high profile block trade by HSBC, which was caught holding a more than €410m block of Amadeus shares last November....
...But Mr Kaliev says a number of things are holding back the Russian venture capital market, which, if changed, could unleash a tidal wave of investment....
...Barclays had been left holding a 14.2 per cent stake in Ziggo earlier this month after agreeing to underwrite the sale of 40m shares in Ziggo for €25.05 a share on behalf of private equity groups Cinven...
...The owners of Ziggo are selling down their holdings in the Dutch cable provider for as much as €1bn, according to people familiar with the matter....
...In March, they sold a 20 per cent stake in a block trade that left Barclays, the underwriter, holding 14.2 per cent of the shares. Barclays later sold most of its stake to Liberty Global....
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