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...Major labels Warner and Universal have forged partnerships with NFT projects, including a virtual band featuring characters from the Bored Ape Yacht Club....
...“News Corp, Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Condé Nast . . . everyone is after us,” he told the FT over duck confit in 2012....
...One thing to start: Billionaire financier Leon Black gave his ex-mistress £2mn for a UK golden visa and introduced her to a lawyer to discuss her application, hoping to facilitate a transatlantic move that...
...Lorenzo, who has run the bank’s internal audit division since 2017, will take over from Lara Warner, who departed alongside at least six other senior executives in a management overhaul in the wake of twin...
...Credit Suisse also combined its risk and compliance divisions, headed by former chief risk officer Lara Warner....
...It could become the most acrimonious fight over a failed PE deal since Jon Huntsman sparred with Apollo Global Management over a $6.5bn agreement, struck in 2007, to sell his chemicals conglomerate to Leon...
...The scandal marked the end of a feted Wall Street career for Mr Milken, who was widely credited as the inventor of junk bonds that enabled everyone from Hilton to Time Warner to the homebuilder Toll Brothers...
...not blocked from accessing Time Warner content during contract disputes....
...The DOJ argued AT&T and Time Warner combined would have more leverage, because any revenue lost from withholding Time Warner content from a rival network would be offset as AT&T picked up customers who left...
...The DoJ said that Judge Leon had “illogically and erroneously” found that Time Warner would not have leverage to pull its content from distributors when it negotiates the prices at which it should be paid...
...It comes a month after US telecoms group AT&T completed its purchase of Time Warner, which owns HBO, CNN and the Warner Brothers movie studio....
...Richard Leon, the arbiter of the Department of Justice’s attempt to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, did not allow phones in his courtroom....
...Judge Richard Leon’s ruling on the deal, due Tuesday afternoon, will provide vital case law in an area that has relatively little....
...More recently, Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors took the same step....
...Almost 140 people crammed into Richard Leon’s courtroom on Tuesday to hear his verdict on AT&T’s $80bn takeover of Time Warner....
...As Judge Richard Leon remarked, channelling Bob Dylan: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”...
...Judge Leon had excluded the political argument from the case, but still came out comprehensively in the companies’ favour....
...For more than a year, the telecoms company battled the US Department of Justice over its planned $85bn purchase of Time Warner....
...The DoJ late on Thursday launched an unexpected appeal over a ruling that gave AT&T the green light to complete its $80bn takeover of entertainment company Time Warner....
...Judge Richard Leon has ruled wisely. His rejection of the US government’s case for blocking the merger of AT&T and Time Warner was forceful and unequivocal....
...Police cordoned off the street in front of Time Warner Center after the alert was raised mid-morning....
...Judge Richard Leon ruled in favour of allowing the telecoms company to acquire Time Warner this week, dismissing the US Department of Justice’s view that deal would harm competition....
...Just last week Comcast made a $65bn bid for Fox, after reading good things in the tea leaves of Judge Richard Leon's decision allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner....
...Judge Leon approved a similar order in the merger of Comcast and NBCUniversal in 2011. The order expires this year....
...What will be of particular interest for those without a vested interest in this specific case — or in the media space — is the line of thinking Judge Leon took....
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