Group One, Inc

Hotel chain Motel One valued at €4.1bn as hospitality dealmaking heats up

...Proprium Capital Partners, a real estate private equity group, has sold back its 35 per cent stake in Motel One to the company’s majority shareholder, One Hotels & Resorts, according to a statement on Tuesday...

April 9, 2024

Vale SA

Vale faces £3bn legal action over 2015 Mariana dam disaster

...one of the country’s worst environmental disasters....

March 19, 2024

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Newspaper groups warn Apple over ad-blocking plans

...Media groups have been left reeling in recent years after the large tech groups they rely on to deliver their news and content have made it more difficult to make money....

May 12, 2024

Pfizer Inc

Pfizer plans direct-to-consumer platform for Covid and migraine treatments

...Pharma groups were realising that “the best way to convert customers is through patient portals where they can act as a consumer in medicine”, added Mackey....

May 1, 2024

ArcelorMittal SA

ArcelorMittal warns that one of its main divisions could quit UK

...Under the application by Peel Waters, part of Peel Group, the site would be redeveloped for housing and commercial facilities....

May 5, 2024

London Stock Exchange Group

LSE Group investors back doubling chief’s pay to US levels

...London Stock Exchange Group’s shareholders have backed a proposal to double the pay of its chief executive to a maximum possible £13.1mn, making David Schwimmer one of the top-paid FTSE 100 bosses....

April 25, 2024

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Pandemic-era winners suffer $1.5tn fall in market value

...Video-conferencing company Zoom, whose shares soared as much as 765 per cent in 2020 as businesses switched to remote working, has been one of the biggest losers....

May 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2bn and sets sights on AI start-ups

...It represents one of the largest fundraisings by a VC since a downturn in the sector began about two years ago....

April 16, 2024

Lex PopuliInvestments

If you like a company, should you buy its shares?

...“Buy what you know” was a keystone of his investing philosophy — one that earned the Fidelity Magellan fund a benchmark-beating 29 per cent annualised return under his 13-year stewardship....

April 19, 2024

Energy sector

EQT to create $35bn integrated gas group with deal for pipeline business

...The region is one of the centres of gas production in the US....

March 11, 2024

Novavax Inc

Sanofi licensing deal doubles value of vaccine group Novavax

...The partnership strengthens Sanofi, one of the world’s largest vaccine makers by sales, in the post-pandemic Covid jab market, where pharmaceutical groups are increasingly focused on combined shots against...

May 10, 2024

Unhedged

Berkshire’s next move Premium

...One good read A big hospital chain goes bankrupt, a few years after its private equity owners sold their stake for a big profit to a group led by the chain’s chief executive, who subsequently took a huge...

May 8, 2024

Airlines

US airlines under fire for raising baggage fees again

...The group estimated the rule would cost airlines $33bn over 10 years....

March 10, 2024

FT Asset Management

Berkshire after Buffett

...for other private equity groups....

May 6, 2024

Due Diligence

Death and succession at Berkshire Premium

...Skydance’s two-step deal is backed by private equity groups RedBird and KKR....

May 7, 2024

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Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...Still, all of this would probably still be “inside baseball”, confined to law conventions and journal articles, if not for one man: Elon Musk....

April 23, 2024

Lex PopuliPersonal Finance

Athleisure shares appear out of shape

...That segment is dominated by UK-listed Gym Group and private equity owned PureGym....

March 29, 2024

Gambling industry

Française des Jeux buys Sweden-listed betting group Kindred

...State-backed French lottery operator Française des Jeux has struck a €2.6bn deal to buy Stockholm-listed gambling group Kindred in a takeover that will create one of Europe’s biggest betting companies....

January 22, 2024

News in-depthTechnology regulation

Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia

...“If you know there is a change in legislation and if that is just limited to Europe, you might try to fight it,” one tech industry executive said....

May 10, 2024

Baidu Inc

Baidu executive leaves tech company after ‘I’m not your mum’ outburst

...Her comments revived concerns about working conditions at Chinese tech groups....

May 10, 2024

Berkshire after Buffett

Berkshire after Buffett: prized energy business faces upheaval

...Two years ago, he described the energy business as one of the company’s “four giants”....

May 3, 2024

Inchcape PLC

Inchcape to sell UK dealerships for £346mn

...“The car distribution market is fragmented globally, but we are seeing that more brands are looking for one single distributor,” he said....

April 15, 2024

Drug prices

Copycats take bite out of AbbVie’s best-selling Humira drug

...But the groups “would prefer to solve their own problems, as opposed to have politicians solve it”, he said....

April 25, 2024

News in-depthApple Inc

How Apple’s ‘tone deaf’ iPad ad signals a turning point

...Apple’s huge profits and dominance of the smartphone market have made it one of the world’s most valuable companies....

May 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence

TikTok to automatically label AI-generated user content in global first

...“This is really important for our community because authenticity is really one of the elements that has made TikTok such a vibrant and joyful community . . . they want to be able to understand what has been...

May 9, 2024

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