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...Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger has won the backing of influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis in his battle against billionaire activist Nelson Peltz, with the group unconvinced that the latter’s plans...
...Activist investor Nelson Peltz has recently upped his stake in the entertainment giant and is looking to push for board seats, the Financial Times has reported....
...Brian Nelson, under-secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the US was “committed to exposing Russia’s extensive campaigns of government-directed deception, which are intended...
...ValueAct is the latest to smell blood at Disney Not long after Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners revived its campaign at Disney and Daniel Loeb’s Third Point began calling for sweeping changes at the company...
...Mockney wheeler dealer “Del Boy” Trotter was known for his French language faux pas and council flat in Nelson Mandela House, London....
...Its sales centre in Santa Monica, nestled among outlets for Louis Vuitton and Tiffany on an open-air plaza, attracts “lots of footfall” from the nearby beach, according to a sales assistant, who asked to...
...Activist investor Nelson Peltz has called off his fight against Walt Disney a day after the company unveiled a restructuring plan involving the loss of 7,000 jobs, ending one of the biggest corporate battles...
...Peltz gets off the Disney ride Nelson Peltz has hung up his mouse ears, for now....
...The $18bn distressed debt investor Strategic Value Partners seized control of the owner of US retail properties such as Rolling Oaks Mall in Texas and Tippecanoe Plaza in Indiana in a transaction approved...
...At around midday on Monday, Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global, was eating a sandwich at a table with Nelson Peltz, the billionaire activist investor, and his lieutenant and son-in-law Ed Garden....
...Nelson Peltz has won his battle to join the board of Janus Henderson, as the activist investor keeps up the pressure for sweeping changes at the $419bn US asset manager....
...The rejection comes days after Bezos wrote to Nasa administrator Bill Nelson offering to cover $2bn in costs in this fiscal year and the next two, in exchange for being awarded the contract — an offer that...
...In a letter to Bill Nelson, the US space agency’s administrator, Bezos said his company would waive up to $2bn for the current and next two government fiscal years, as well as fund a demonstration mission...
...But activists have taken a run at Danone before — Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners in 2012, and a brief foray by Corvex in 2017....
...Although its logical home would be down at the waterfront on Albert Dock, it has been planted in a plaza in the heart of the city’s business district....
...Seed Beauty, coincidentally founded by another sibling duo, Laura and John Nelson, is calling those deals into question....
...Nevertheless, insiders at the bank’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in New York believed that their Parisian colleague would not defect to an arch-rival....
...From my palatial balcony at Hotel Plaza Colón, I watch a trio of nuns tearing through yucca and vigorón (pork crackling) with their fingers....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Edward Nelson as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department in New York. He joins from Gibson Dunn. Ashurst has hired Fabien Debroise as a partner in its banking team....
...The FT's editor Lionel Barber debated media issues with BBC broadcaster Mishal Husain and Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, at the FT Weekend Festival last Saturday. Here's an edited transcript....
...(NYT) Dangerous by design An investigation by the Wall Street Journal reveals that Amazon is using clothing factories that other retailers have shunned since the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh....
...In the decades that followed the Plaza sale, the two men frequently announced deals together, although in the end many of them came to nought....
...Moral Money caught up with Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Norwegian prime minister who is now a member of The Elders, the network of senior international figures created by Nelson Mandela in 2007 that...
...His mission was to sell the Plaza Hotel at the corner of Central Park, which his then boss, the Texas oil heir Robert M Bass, had bought as part of a larger deal....
...Nelson Griggs, president of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, described the SEC project as “ill-conceived,” adding that US companies were being used as guinea pigs....
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