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...Job moves Deutsche Bank’s head of corporate and investment banking for the Americas James Davies is leaving the group....
...Waterstones boss James Daunt has told the Financial Times that the public market “would be a very sensible place” for the bookseller, although those close to the situation say that a listing is unlikely...
...There’s something surreal to the whole texture of James Macdonald’s staging, co-produced with Atlantic Theater Company — a suspended quality familiar to any period of illness....
...Barnes is run by former banker James Daunt, who founded Daunt Books in 1990 and took over as managing director of Waterstones in 2011....
...“This is CNN’s lowest moment as an organisation,” said one, by veteran journalist James Fallows....
...The US and Canadian investors will pay $28 per share in cash to Nielsen shareholders....
...Elliott highlighted Nielsen’s new measurement product, Nielsen ONE, which cuts across network TV and streaming media in unveiling their deal....
...At the outset of the year, a string of large deals, including the privatisations of Citrix for $16.5bn and Nielsen for $16bn, signalled that buyout volumes might again surpass $1tn....
...Nielsen has been in private equity hands before....
...For years, Nielsen has struggled to retain its dominance as an intermediary for buyers of advertising....
...They are also working to finance buyouts of the media ratings company Nielsen, TV broadcaster Tegna and car parts maker Tenneco....
...“The environment for M&A transactions continues to be very challenging,” Frank Aquila, Sullivan & Cromwell senior M&A partner, told DD’s Ivan Levingston, James Fontanella-Khan and Ortenca Aliaj....
...Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed two large tech takeovers this year and activist investor Elliott Management has led the agreed privatisations of Nielsen and Citrix....
...At the outset of the pandemic, James Daunt instructed managers at US chain Barnes & Noble to take every book off their shelves, “weed out the rubbish”, make each section flow and put their stores back together...
...Management has led the year’s two biggest private equity-backed deals, taking software company Citrix private alongside Vista Equity Partners for $16.5bn in January, and buying television ratings group Nielsen...
...Then, earlier this week, it agreed to buy TV ratings group Nielsen for $16bn, alongside Brookfield Asset Management....
...If Citrix and another Elliott-led deal to acquire Nielsen get out the door, it may be possible to end the year on a high note....
...Financing for the takeovers of Nielsen, TV broadcaster Tegna and car parts maker Tenneco also remains unsold. Twitter is a massive potential landmine....
...Titled The Lost Will of Dr Rant, it starred a young Leslie Nielsen, future star of comedy spoofs Police Squad!...
...Spain, Galicia marks the Day of Galicia (Dia Nacional de Galicia), dedicated to the autonomous region’s patron saint James Switzerland, a special meeting of the general council of the World Trade Organization...
...However, a recent paper by Michael Nielsen and Kanjun Qiu suggests that Aria is in line with the latest thinking on funding research....
...Erik Nielsen, group chief economist at UniCredit and a former IMF and World Bank economist, said the allegations came just as the fund was struggling to reconcile an internal policy conflict between austerity...
...advantage: it’s working on the bid with Edizione, the holding company that manages the Benetton family fortune and owns a third of Atlantia, a person familiar with the matter told DD’s Antoine Gara and James...
...It’s Bardur a Steig Nielsen, the Faroese prime minister, who wants to talk to Johannus about the premiere at Havner Bio the next day. No wonder they call Johannus the King of Kalsoy....
...“The US is now likely to catch up with its pre-pandemic forecast path of growth next year, while if you look at Europe, there is no realistic chance of that happening for several years,” said Erik Nielsen...
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