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...In January the Superior Court of Delaware ruled in favour of the Barotz estate and ordered a $6.9mn payout (final judgement here)....
...During the two deals, Dell and Silver Lake tangled with activist shareholders like Carl Icahn and resorted to heavy financial engineering....
...But in the frantic weeks leading up to the bankruptcy, no superior rival financing offer had materialised....
...It underscores how politics, for the private equity industry, has become as important a skill as financial engineering and operations....
...The dealmaker’s tactics highlight the tough negotiating, financial engineering — and in this case, dose of luck — required to prevail over Wall Street rivals during fights in troubled companies....
...Charted waters There was, during the early stages of the pandemic, a lot of talk about a V-shaped recovery....
...Voyage has 75 employees and has raised only $52m — pennies compared with the $5bn raised by Cruise — but executives say the narrower focus on senior communities provides a superior business case....
...distribution centres, iv) warehouse efficiencies; and v) non-strategic cost savings....
...“We need to see the promise of Crispr — that you can develop a superior product to gene therapy, precisely — holds up,” he said....
...Separately, the company announced it agreed a deal to cap its liability for the second of its troubled reactor projects managed by its US nuclear engineering unit Westinghouse....
...Born in 1948, Chandraswami grew up as Nemi Chand, the son of a Jain moneylender in the southern city of Hyderabad. His early career — and transformation into a guru — remains mysterious....
...They have an engineering background along with an MBA degree. So, what does engineering education have to do with their immense success in the financial industry?...
...Here is an opinion summary from law firm Simpson Thacher describing how the court judged predicted beta in a 2010 appraisal case, ” Global GT lp v. Golden Telecom”....
...Mr Piëch’s engineering talent and perfectionism drove the carmaker to design complex, technically superior vehicles, often regardless of the cost....
...Engines can make more power, more reliably, with help from engineering companies such as SRM and Unity Equipe in the UK....
...Mr Ishrak says the takeover of Covidien has much to offer aside from financial engineering....
...Equipped with an electrical engineering degree and an MBA, Mr Kranefuss exudes the air of an academic rather than a conservative financier....
...Talent, which is Stockholm’s key commodity due to its world-class education system and history of high-tech engineering, is also problematically mobile....
...Working with the farmers still requires intensive handholding from Jain’s staff – of whom more than 1,300 have degrees in engineering or agriculture – and its extensive dealer network. A....
...I am trying to decide which one is better for the distance MBA.V....
...RL: No, we’re sticking with the model because we still believe it produces superior results in not just the long term, but the medium term....
...That restriction, says V....
...A superior cautionary tale for show-offs of three and older....
...Self-taught glass-blowing artists Prateek Jain and Gautam Seth of Klove Studio combine glass with stone, metal and wood to create unusual modern sculptures....
...“What’s much more interesting than civil and structural engineering’s obsession with the biggest and the longest is the link between architecture, engineering and the arts,” he says....
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