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...In one notable example last year, $2.6bn in debt financing for Thoma Bravo’s $6.6bn acquisition of Stamps.com was provided entirely by private lenders, including Ares, Blackstone and PSP Investments....
...Bravo. Nikou — A powerful story. + bonus Robert Smith Whisper it cautiously, but we are arguably living through a new golden age of investigative reporting....
...Yesterday DD’s Ortenca Aliaj and the FT’s Joshua Franklin revealed that Credit Suisse had removed a senior investment banker from his position after he was found to have used unapproved messaging applications...
...Heading up the SBF fan club was buyout billionaire Orlando Bravo....
...But DJ D-Sol’s Goldman remix sounds remarkably like the original, the FT’s Joshua Franklin details....
...Anaplan chair and chief executive Frank Calderoni is stepping down following Thoma Bravo’s $10.4bn buyout of the San Francisco-based software group....
...Two members of the ensemble deserved the automatic bravos mustered by a clap-happy audience....
...Sci-Fi, Bravo and MSNBC also did well. Altogether, cable now contributes more than half of NBC Universal’s earnings while the namesake network accounts for less than 10 per cent....
...Oxygen, which reaches 74m homes, will add to NBC’s growing stable of female-oriented media properties, including the iVillage health and lifestyle website it paid $600m for last year, the Bravo cable network...
...This week, NBC announced plans to acquire Oxygen Media for $925m, adding it to a stable that includes Bravo, the Sci-Fi Channel and the USA Network, among others....
...In January, Volkswagen agreed to spend $200m to get its products into Universal movies, as well as NBC, Bravo and USA television shows....
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