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...In 2018, WMIH finally merged with a real business, Nationstar Mortgage, at an aggregate valuation of $3.8bn. WMIH, the shares of which initially traded at around $10, are now above $70....
...Acquiring DS Smith could face anti-trust challenges in Europe, but we think the deal could get done with the sale of a few box plants....
...Exxon has not set any scope 3 targets. Nowhere is the climate pressure higher than in California....
...“A company can add several percentage points of margin into their acquisition [through group drug purchasing]....
...ADM’s purchase of Wild Flavors, a Switzerland-based ingredients manufacturer, for €2.3bn ($3.1) in 2014 remains the largest acquisition in company history....
...He last explored an IPO of Waterstones in 2018 ahead of its sale to private equity group Elliott but said that the timing was not right given the potential acquisition of Barnes & Noble, which Elliott bought...
...In 2018, Hipgnosis was the future....
...She was the architect of a $3.3bn takeover of local cable and broadband group Com Hem while running Sweden’s Tele2 in 2018 followed by a break-up of Denmark’s TDC Group in her next CEO gig....
...This also includes amending the Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Act to increase the maximum fine for malpractice by robo-advisers to NT$15mn ($480,000) from NT$3.6mn....
...It contributed almost 50 per cent of SoftBank’s $100bn Vision Fund in 2016, made a $3.5bn investment in Uber in 2016 and more than $1bn in electric-car maker Lucid Motors in 2018....
...In 2018 it launched the “open-ended fund company”, known as an OFC. But adoption was low: just eight were registered in the first two years....
...David Ownby, who was Regal’s chief financial officer for nine years until 2018 when it was acquired for $3.6bn by Cineworld in a reverse takeover, has been serving as an adviser to Cineworld’s highest priority...
...Beesley acknowledged Jupiter had become an acquisition target....
...Among them were chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal, policy and trust....
...UniCredit is on track to distribute €3.75bn via dividends and purchases of its own shares this year....
...Cornball anecdotes aside, BREIT has smashed it, returning on average 13.3 per cent annually net of fees since its birth — including a 9.3 per cent gain in rate-wracked 2022 — and amassed a real estate portfolio...
...You just have to trust him....
...But the pace of acquisitions masked the underlying performance of the catalogues....
...The gallery lacks deep pockets: it has an endowment of only £3.5mn, compared with the $8.6bn of the trust behind the world’s richest museum, the J Paul Getty in Los Angeles....
...Trained in mergers and acquisitions, he has been instrumental in many of PepsiCo’s key transactions, such as the recent sale of a majority stake in its Tropicana and Naked Juice brands and the $3.2bn deal...
...He will retain 80 per cent of his Blackstone shares, which make up the bulk of his $3.2bn net worth, according to Forbes....
...“A big part of their costs are around customer acquisition. In times of crisis, they stop lending and quickly cut customer acquisition. It’s at the heart of their strategy and it works really well.”...
...by a special acquisition company....
...The deal with Apollo’s Spartan Acquisition Corp III values Allego at roughly $3.14bn and would raise about $700m for the Dutch group, assuming no redemptions by shareholders in the Spac, the companies said...
...The peak came in 2018, when four deals worth a combined $88.9bn gave Robey an Emea market share of 6.1 per cent and a Dealogic ranking of 15....
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