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...Skydance, along with private equity groups RedBird and KKR, is planning to buy National Amusements, which holds almost 80 per cent of Paramount’s class A voting shares, for $2bn....
...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....
...This industry practice brings wry amusement to cynics who believe fees might conceivably influence advice....
...The fund had also bought bonds issued by air cargo handler WFS Global, Spanish pizza chain Telepizza and German amusement arcade operator Löwen Play, as part of a “credit for control” strategy, according...
...Just gape in awe and amusement at this chart of Goldman Sachs’s unprofitable tech stocks index over the past five years....
...Mr Snyder was launching an offensive on Six Flags, the amusement park chain, to seize a handful of board seats through his investment firm, RedZone LLC....
...Redstone was less of a revolutionary than an imperialist; National Amusements, the Redstone family’s theatre chain, bought its way into Hollywood by acquiring film and cable television assets, just as film...
...Both Viacom and CBS are controlled by the Redstone family’s National Amusements. It may be that CBS — the stronger of the two companies — has better options for a merger partner than struggling Viacom....
...Frustration, she explains, is one of the four emotions that every casual game must elicit, along with curiosity, desire and amusement....
...The move to list on the US market comes after reports that Blackstone has tried and failed to find an acquirer for the aquatic-themed amusement park operator in recent months....
...While he had no doubt braced himself for the amusement that many would derive from its old-school hardback price of £18.99, the caprices of irony delivered a blow from another angle entirely – the revelation...
...Companies including private equity giant KKR and Italian luxury goods brand Prada last year delayed their IPO plans, while others, such as AMC Entertainment and Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, scrapped their...
...With the exception of its shareholders, most people watched with detached amusement....
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