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...News round-up Activist fund Elliott seeks board seats at oil refiner Phillips 66 (FT) Castore scores £950mn valuation after Raine-led funding round (FT) Farfetch shares plunge despite talk of founder...
...It’s a question of particular importance to investors in Burford Capital, the litigation funding powerhouse that financed the claims....
...raises up to £335mn in rare London IPO (FT) Man Group moves into private credit with US fund Varagon purchase (FT) Twitter threatens trade secrets lawsuit over Meta’s Threads app (FT) The private credit ‘golden...
...We all know the golden years of systematic equity were the 80s, 90s and 2000s. I think we’re in the golden years of credit.”...
...Activism is set to enter a “golden age” across Europe next year, while low valuations and heightened ESG concerns mean that British companies are the most vulnerable targets, according to Alvarez & Marsal...
.../Postmates: food might (FT Lex) Paulson closes hedge fund to external investors (FT) Hargreaves says revamped ‘best buy’ list would exclude Woodford fund (FT) Virgin Group commits £200m of immediate funding...
...The exhaustive work of the Duke University and UEA academics traces the roots of American academia through the golden age of corporate-driven research, which roughly encompasses the postwar period up to...
...Cloud’s golden lining for AlibabaAlibaba is doubling down on cloud computing with a Rmb200bn ($28bn) three-year investment plan, as working from home fuels demand for internet infrastructure services that...
...A 2014 federal lawsuit accused Guggenheim Partners and an affiliated insurance company of improperly using the insurance company assets for funding the Dodgers transaction....
...LumRisk, which provides risk analysis to institutional investors who hold large portfolios, recently received SFr7.5m funding from unidentified investors....
...Juul Labs, the San Francisco-based ecigarette company, has closed on the first $650m of a $1.25bn funding round, new regulatory filings show....
...The hiring of professors in artificial intelligence by big technology companies is “killing the goose that lays the golden eggs”, according to Abhinay Muthoo....
...We decide to pick at some cheese: dolcelatte with walnuts, and pecorino with pear. And I’m in urgent need of a double macchiato. Back to politics....
...Some analysts and executives are beginning to confidently predict a new golden age....
...That property, featuring a 120-foot lap pool with a golden pyramid on one end, has been partially demolished amid a messy legal dispute....
...WME-IMG is not alone in Hollywood in turning to private equity funding to bulk up it business as sport and media converge....
...Its other titles include Pet Rescue Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and Papa Pear Saga....
...Hodges laughs when I mention the Pears encomium....
...While still with Miramax, Weinstein had experimented with publishing, co-funding with Hearst the short-lived magazine Talk....
...He won broad public affection for founding and funding a free three-day bluegrass music festival, hosted annually in the city’s Golden Gate Park since 2001....
...“What you can take away from that investment is that we thought Rovio was an exceptional company,” says Bruce Golden, a partner at Accel Partners in London....
...UPDATE: Defra have come back to say that the £3bn was a combination of Defra and DCLG money and the LGA is comparing “apples with pears”....
...“We are Britain’s Holocaust library – there can’t be any doubt about that – and yet we are the only one that receives no state funding from its own government. Britain has to have this place....
...Infineon, which is thought to have approached the German government seeking bail-out funding this year, has about €570m of convertible bonds maturing next year that it could struggle to repay....
...Its main goal is clear: trying to secure a permanent source of funding, to reduce its reliance on multiple rounds of fundraising from pension funds and other investors....
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