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...One scoop to start: Formula One owner Liberty Media is in exclusive talks to buy the company that owns MotoGP for more than €4bn, in a deal that would unite the elite car and motorcycle racing series, according...
...s lawyers make final appeal for acquittal in FTX trial (FT) WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week (Wall Street Journal) ArcelorMittal obtains €140mn freezing order against Gupta’s Liberty...
...But its speciality business agreed to insure thermal coal mining company Global Mining Holding Company, LLC, and its subsidiary Signal Peak Energy for up to $2mn, for the two years to November 2023, according...
...Project, a consumer group....
...GFG’s operations — which include companies such as Liberty Steel — continued to trade on Monday but if the group were to fail, it would put tens of thousands of steel and engineering jobs at risk, spanning...
...Liberty Steel said: “We can confirm a temporary issue with one of our [hot rolled coil] suppliers to Liberty Liège-Dudelange and Magona has been successfully concluded using our normal commercial dispute...
...Afterwards Barrack vowed to prove his innocence, adding: “The Statue of Liberty . . . is made of steel with a patina of copper....
...(FT) News round-up Credit Suisse pegs potential Greensill fund losses at $3bn (FT) H&M and Nike face China backlash over Xinjiang stance (FT) UK willing to rescue Liberty Steel ‘in its entirety’ (FT)...
...The Liberty deal is due to be cleared by regulators this week....
...Dechert has appointed Adam Plainer as global co-chair of its financial restructuring group. He joins from Weil....
..., the concert booking and ticketing group....
...Alongside their private equity backers TDR they’ve created a sprawling global group that is a behemoth of Europe’s leveraged loan and junk bond markets — “the Liberty Global of petrol and retail”, as one...
...He says that for 15 years, half of the carried interest he was entitled to from Vista’s premiere fund was filtered through a Nevis LLC called Flash Holdings, owned via bearer shares by a Belize foundation...
...Project Pink, the merger that brought together Telefonica’s O2 and Liberty Global’s Virgin Media, was completed using Webex, but much of the wooing was done in-person ahead of the lockdown....
...The Atlanta Braves baseball club is wholly owned by Liberty Media Group, the publicly listed conglomerate founded by John Malone....
...Mobile company Sunrise agreed to buy UPC, Liberty’s Swiss cable company, in February for $6.3bn....
...Google and civil liberties organisations have argued that global delisting impinges on free speech and would in effect be a way to enforce EU privacy standards in countries without similar laws....
...The UK’s attempt to put itself at the front of the pack in legislating a safer internet has prompted inevitable warnings about the threat to civil liberties online....
...“They are muscling in on cities and trying to exert power . . . through policies that should be made by government,” says Bianca Wylie, co-founder of Tech Reset Canada, a tech advocacy group....
...That threat must be resisted, for liberty’s sake....
...Industry and civil liberties groups had lobbied against the original proposal, which it was feared would undermine the privacy and security of individuals and provoke a legal clash with companies....
...The Liberty assets are valued at between €16.5bn and €17bn but a premium and synergies would push the price up toward the €20bn mark according to analysts....
...The company’s co-founder Sergey Brin, who has said he is particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties having spent the first six years of his life in the Soviet Union, was personally behind...
...Taking limited responsibility for what appears on social networks or in search results no longer sounds like making a stand for liberty....
...Accustomed to taking three puffs a day from two different inhalers, supplemented by a third, she now takes a once-a-day treatment devised by the UK pharma group GlaxoSmithKline....
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