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...Black and Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment....
...Former Credit Suisse shareholder Harris Associates had raised questions over the terms of the deal with Klein and his possible conflict of interest given the banker had been on the board for four years....
...Representatives for 26North, Harris and Brookfield declined to comment....
...“The rumours of Chicago’s demise are greatly overexaggerated,” said David Casper, chief executive of Chicago-based BMO Harris, the US arm of the Bank of Montreal....
...“This transaction with Gramercy . . . gives us the ability to bring the fight to any wrongdoer,” Harris Pogust, the firm’s chair, said in a statement....
...“As the IPO market begins to open, we look forward to welcoming a robust pipeline of companies,” said Michael Harris, NYSE’s global head of capital markets....
...A year later, Victoria’s Secret & Company became an independent, publicly traded company. Since then, the brand has had an uneven recovery....
...They said they were investigating whether the company had gone beyond the “ordinary practices of participation in legislative public debate”....
...“A project that would take six months will now take 12,” said Brett Harris, executive director of luxury sales at real estate firm Douglas Elliman....
...But a federal judge threw out the lawsuit against Harris, calling Black’s legal theory “conclusory, vague, indirect, clever and cute”....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...In a separate lawsuit filed in federal court, Black had accused his former Apollo lieutenant Josh Harris of co-opting Ganieva into an alleged extortion campaign as part of an effort to claim the top job...
...Many of those investments are attached to Athene Holding, the annuities company that Apollo founded in 2009, and with which it merged earlier this year....
...Earlier this year a federal judge threw out a lawsuit in which Black accused Josh Harris, his former top lieutenant at Apollo Global Management, of conspiring with Ganieva to publicise false allegations...
...A representative for Harris said he was “pleased the court swiftly and fairly dismissed the case and believe the decision speaks for itself”....
...Joshua Harris, another Apollo co-founder who was behind some of the company’s most successful investments such as the takeover of chemicals company LyondellBasell, also left during the turmoil after he was...
...He re-aired his views on Black and Harris: “When the other side intentionally plays dirty, it is infuriating....
...Harris resigned from Apollo last May, though he remains on its board. In a response filed in federal court on Friday, lawyers for Harris said Black “did not have a good reputation left to tarnish”....
...“Hell [for companies] is that they don’t understand their own information and [don’t] understand that risk,” says Harris. “These are existential risks,” he stresses....
...But in Tuesday’s filing they went further, claiming Harris sought to oust Black from Apollo....
...Harris and Blitzer submitted a bid, as did Pagliuca’s consortium, spokespeople told the Financial Times. Representatives for the bid led by Boehly did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...Apollo Global Management beat profit expectations in its first results since its merger with life insurance company Athene in January, a deal that dramatically transformed the private equity giant into a...
...Black is also in a legal battle with fellow Apollo co-founder Josh Harris, who remains on the company’s board and holds a 7 per cent stake....
...“The notion that Mr Harris was motivated by anything other than the best interests of the company is false — Black’s relationship with Epstein was disqualifying, plain and simple.”...
...Black’s former top lieutenant at Apollo, Josh Harris, who remains on the company’s board, is allegedly among those figures....
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