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...“The character I’d most like to play is Tallulah from Bugsy Malone. It’s such a clever, dark show and everything is turned upside down by having children play adults....
...John Malone and the art of optionality in dealmaking Earlier this week, we gave you a short but important refresher on a legendary dealmaker: John Malone, the US billionaire known as the “Cable Cowboy”....
...Long before CVC Capital Partners sold car racing series Formula One to US billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Media, the buyout firm was the owner of Dorna....
...It has become an almost daily occurrence to hear of a department store filing for bankruptcy or close to it: Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor and many others teetering on the edge....
...So in return for perfume company Jo Malone’s decision to cut him out of a Chinese version of an ad he directed, he’s dropped them....
...At Time Warner Cable in 2014, he helped chief executive Rob Marcus fend off a hostile bid by John Malone-backed Charter Communications, ultimately selling for more than 40 per cent higher than the initial...
...Upmarket retailer Neiman Marcus’s deeply subordinated payment-in-kind note is now trading below half of face value, for example....
...The deal marks the culmination of two years of takeover talks for Rob Marcus, TWC’s chairman and chief executive....
...When TWC jumped into the arms of Comcast, it was running away from the clutches of Charter, its smaller rival controlled by John Malone, the cable tycoon....
...This includes fees associated with the likely collapse of Comcast and TWC’s agreement to sell 3.9m subscribers to Charter Communications, the John Malone-backed cable operator, and Charter’s $10.4bn proposed...
...None of the proposed board is in the employment of either Charter or John Malone’s Liberty Media, which owns a 27 per cent stake in the company....
...Mr Malone’s grander strategy soon became clear....
...Charter is backed by John Malone’s Liberty Media. Time Warner Cable said it was not seeking to sell but would entertain an offer at a deal price of about $160 a share....
...It’s hard for them to recognise that someone as aggressive as John Malone could do a better job than them”....
...Backed by John Malone’s Liberty Media, Charter has circled Time Warner Cable since last summer, publicly advocating for consolidation in an industry battling new competition, new technology and shifting...
...Some industry executives, including Liberty Media’s John Malone, have advocated such deals, arguing that it would reduce costs and better position the industry to compete....
...Charter, whose ambitions are supported by John Malone’s Liberty Media group, its largest shareholder, was not immediately available for comment....
...Robert Marcus, who will take over as chief executive of the cable operator in 2014, added that he was “100 per cent on the same page”....
...Rob Marcus, chief operating officer, will succeed him as chief executive. Time Warner Cable shares rose 3.6 per cent to $4.13 by mid-morning on Thursday....
...Then I lit a three-wick Wild Fig & Cassis candle by Jo Malone and slipped in. I lay there, contentedly, like a rehoused hippo for some time....
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