Hints and tips:
...Ike Perlmutter, the former Marvel executive and longtime friend of Peltz who was laid off from Disney last year, contributed his shares to the fight....
...Silver Lake agreed to buy the company at a $13bn valuation alongside executives of Endeavor and new investors, including billionaire Michael Dell’s family office....
...Stonepeak, a New York-based group now managing more than $60bn in assets, was founded by Michael Dorrell and Trent Vichie....
...Fuelled by the junk bonds of his friend Michael Milken, he and his business partner Peter May built it into the largest packaging company in the world, before selling it....
...VMware’s existing owners Michael Dell and US technology private equity group Silver Lake, who stand to get billions in cash once (and if) the ink dries, will also be watching with bated breath....
...On Thursday, Trian issued a statement recommending Disney shareholders replace board member Michael Froman, the former US trade representative, with Peltz....
...The dividend is likely at the heart of what Peltz and his fellow billionaire, Marvel chair Ike Perlmutter, were hoping to secure from Disney. “This was a great win for all the shareholders....
...Lastly, vice-chair for supervision Michael Barr will make an appearance at an economic mobility student career expo in Mississippi....
...Pivot or perish The end of the cheap money era and fierce geopolitical competition call for an urgent rewrite of the venture capital playbook, Portico Advisers founder Michael Casey wrote in an FT op-ed....
...He made peace with some of the most contentious relationships that Michael Eisner had had. Made peace with Stanley Gold and Roy Disney....
...When Mr Iger succeeded Michael Eisner in October 2005, Disney’s shares were trading at $23.81 and the company had a market capitalisation of $45.8bn....
...This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three scientists – Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss – for discovering, through their research on supernovae, that the universe’s rate of...
...Mr Ovitz then moved to Walt Disney for a short, ill-fated spell as Michael Eisner’s second in command....
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