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...Owl Rock Capital, Blackstone Credit and Golub Capital financed the company’s $10.7bn takeover of Anaplan last month and its SailPoint takeover....
...off record $2.7bn IPO (Nikkei Asia) Singapore deal allows SocGen bankers to flee Hong Kong (FT) Standard Chartered shareholders lodge protest vote against executive pay (FT) British accountants and PR...
...Traditional venture capital rivals such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Accel were forced to move faster and stomach more risk, or chance being edged out of their own territory....
...His technology and ecommerce advisory firm, Belerion Capital, remains a Numis client and was on the distribution list for the fateful email....
...The Buffett banker staking his claim in the PR world Sir Alan Parker has no shortage of influential friends. Both David Cameron and Gordon Brown attended the PR mogul’s second wedding in 2007....
...Financial PR firm Sard Verbinnen sold a 40 per cent stake to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital in 2016, valuing the business at $150m....
...“We’ve pretty much bought all of our newspapers out of bankruptcy or near that fate,” he told the FT via his PR adviser....
...However, Rolf Skar, a campaign director at Greenpeace, says: “I think there is some hypocrisy, especially in some of the PR moves Amazon has made recently....
...FrontWell Capital Partners has hired Aubrie De Sylva as vice-president of its deal originations team....
...Rising capital reserves suggest that cutting corners is a top priority....
...One Super Bowl thing to start: Teneo’s co-founder Declan Kelly went viral late Sunday after the PR man was caught snoozing in the stands during the game....
...HIG Capital has hired Jérome Fouillé and Jenny Hammarlund to join the asset management firm’s real estate team as managing directors....
...HNA Capital’s US chief denied political motives, saying the two sides were in talks well before the election....
...Muddy Waters Capital, the short selling hedge fund founded by Carson Block, claims that someone has been making attempts to solicit information about one of its investment campaigns, using tactics that include...
...Since KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty took the company private in a leveraged buyout in 2005, the company has spent more than $250m a year servicing some $5bn of long term debt....
...The start-up has raised roughly $210m from investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s venture capital arm and Tiger Global Management....
...A few years ago, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, were interviewed by Fortune and talked about why they were different to the venture capitalists...
...(CC Capital would own 50.7 per cent under the merger agreement, according to the Delaware filing.)...
...Exhibitions and publishing group UBM has received US regulatory approval to sell its PR Newswire business....
...Founded by Lord Bell in 1989, Chime used the corporate battles of the 1980s to supercharge the PR industry....
...Next Tuesday, there’s another clash — as the Financial Times and PR impresario Sir Alan Parker, chairman of Brunswick, go head to head....
...The transactions were executed through the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Knight Capital or Direct Edge, according to the indictment....
...“Obviously it’s a public relations effort,” Mr Gross, now a portfolio manager at Janus Capital, told Bloomberg....
...Ian Whittaker, analyst at Liberum Capital, said Mr Levin’s departure “will raise hopes that UBM may either break up or at least sell its PR Newswire assets”, which Liberum values at £566m....
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