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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...The fund had raised $10mn in seed funding and is targeting a $100mn launch for its fund, according to two people involved....
...Silver Lake was also working with Ari Emanuel to build what is now Endeavor, the talent giant that also owns Ultimate Fighting Championship....
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...CVC Capital Partners, the private equity group, which also held talks about funding the tournament, has cooled on the idea, said people close to the discussions....
...In May, Uefa investigators looking into claims that the English club had masked funding from its Middle Eastern owner, recommended the team be banned from the Champions League, where participating clubs...
...But just as a taster, we think this chart demonstrates, along with a few other trends (such as access to venture capital funding), how aggressive Silicon Valley hiring practices have becomes since the financial...
...The scrutiny comes just a day after it announced that it had raised Rmb250m ($36.3m) in its latest funding round from venture capital investors, bringing its total fundraising since 2013 to $60m....
...Airbnb, Uber and other technology innovators have avoided the cost and scrutiny of public ownership thanks to a surge in the availability of private funding....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...According to analyst Go4Ventures, European start-ups received $808m during growth funding rounds in 2010....
...(Reuters) “William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC is close to an agreement to buy rival talent and marketing agency IMG Worldwide Inc. for about $2.4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter...
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It reminds us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...It has recently won funding from Atomico, the international venture capital firm formed by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype....
...For example, its $17.4bn TPG V fund was valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar at the end of 2010....
...Because a different resolution strategy of postponing and extending those terms and a funding source doesn’t exist....
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