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...Drahi has signalled he is open to selling various parts of his telecoms and media empire, which includes assets in France, Israel and the US, as it faces debt repayments in the coming years....
...Ant’s efforts to expand its financial empire have been slowed since then. It was hit by a regulatory crackdown in late 2020 when its $37bn initial public offering was derailed....
...An educational technology empire rapidly assembled by Byju’s during a pandemic funding boom is now set to be dismantled, as what was once India’s most valuable start-up looks to asset disposals to settle...
...She cites plans to create kids’ “learning retreats” at a Maldives resort slated to open in a couple of years – several-days-long educational programmes (“or 10 days, or even two weeks”), focused on marine...
...He plans to withdraw from the bidding process, according to a person familiar with the situation....
...It’s also key to his succession plan....
...Lawyering up In addition to his father’s media empire, Lachlan Murdoch also stands to inherit the barrage of legal proceedings hanging over the family business, the FT reports....
...LVMH’s big succession question With five children, Bernard Arnault faces difficult choices in divvying up his luxury empire and preserving his legacy, The New York Times reports....
...VinFast is just part of Vuong’s business empire....
...Nuzum’s enthusiasm for a “non-aligned emerging and frontier markets thesis” comes as one of the world’s most successful venture capital empires has announced plans to split into three independent businesses...
...Now, the French tycoon’s tight grip over the debt-crippled grocery empire has backfired, the FT reports....
...Smart reads Succession IRL Rupert Mudoch’s legal troubles, health issues and tumultuous personal life are threatening to unravel his media empire as it enters its next chapter, Vanity Fair writes....
...The energy tycoon first built his empire by snapping up unloved, often carbon-intensive energy businesses on the cheap, often using external financing....
...But the Indian tycoon and his empire are still doing damage control....
...Founders swapping notes at the South by Southwest festival in Texas last week admitted that they had received a rapid education....
...That has culminated in Ackman taking a minority stake in the luxury watchmaker as it embarks on an ambitious plan to bring watchmaking back to Britain....
...It’s the definitive inside story of how Sam Bankman-Fried and his band of millennial millionaires lost a $40bn crypto empire....
...But the court case shows that the family’s business empire has come under pressure in recent years....
...The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried and his band of millennial millionaires lost $40bn following the collapse the FTX crypto empire....
...Together they built a London-based empire after selling their stake in oil major TNK-BP to state-run giant Rosneft for $14bn in 2013 and forming investment firm LetterOne....
...Jordan, who once aspired to build his own fitness empire in Michigan, is instead fighting F45 in court....
...“All the plans disappeared at the end of the war,” explained the guide who showed me around the cold, damp tunnels. There are other secrets hidden here in Poland’s Owl Mountains....
...That, though, provided further grist for the Ambani empire, which took control of the bulk of Future’s 1,500 stores....
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...The retail and leisure empire operates 29 malls, including Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates, and built the region’s first indoor ski slope....
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