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...As well as backing from Mustier and Arnault’s holding company Financière Agache, Pegasus Europe was sponsored by French investment group Tikehau Capital and former Bank of America dealmaker Diego De Giorgi...
...Deals to sell Pegasus spyware to those nations turned NSO into a unicorn — a tech start-up worth more than $1bn. The contracts also laid the seeds for its recent woes....
...The request was made in a December letter by lawyers representing the Swiss bank and some of its fellow NSO creditors including the hedge fund Senator, as well as the US investment bank Jefferies in its...
...by Barclays in Luxembourg and can only access them on a case-by-case basis with the bank’s approval, O’Connor said in the filings....
...The banks and Senator declined to comment....
...Pegasus Europe, a special purpose acquisition company he co-ran with former UniCredit chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier — with backing from LVMH founder Bernard Arnault — was wound up in April after failing...
...Three Spacs — Vertex Technology Acquisition, Novo Tellus Alpha Acquisition and Pegasus Asia — launched IPOs on the Singapore Exchange that month....
...Bank of America estimates that the country accounts for up to 50mn units of annual iPhone sales and that a government ban could reduce this by about 5mn to 10mn units....
...But the once sought-after M&A target’s debts now pose a threat to Japan’s regional banks, Bloomberg reports....
...The new tone suggests that Ping An may be ready to de-escalate its campaign, people close to the bank told the Financial Times....
...De Giorgi was most recently co-chief of Pegasus Europe, the blank-cheque company backed by Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier....
...The bank’s shares have plunged 84 per cent this year, much worse than the 23 per cent fall for the KBW Bank index....
...The most swashbuckling tale is told in Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation (Corsair £20/Pegasus Books $28.95) by writer and adventurer Leon McCarron....
...Exclusive: Jeb Bush’s private equity firm held talks with the owners of Israeli spyware company NSO Group over a deal that would have seen the former Florida governor sell its products, including Pegasus...
...Among those still on the hunt is Pegasus Europe, the continent’s largest Spac, launched last year by Mustier, the former head of UniCredit, and Diego De Giorgi, once a heavyweight dealmaker at Bank of America...
...Nike Pegasus Trail 3 Gore-Tex, £134.95, nike.com...
...The two Frenchmen teamed up last year with former Bank of America banker Diego De Giorgi and Tikehau Capital to launch Pegasus Europe, the continent’s largest special purpose acquisition company, with their...
...Bloomberg News first reported the private discussions, which are being led by New York-based investment bank Moelis & Co....
...The unsurprising revelation that Israeli authorities hacked phones of Palestinian human rights defenders using Pegasus spyware raises questions about the British government’s position (“West Bank activists...
...Independent journalists in the country have had Pegasus spyware planted on their smartphones, according to Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Bukele’s government has denied doing so....
...The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which monitors the use of Pegasus software globally, also confirmed the hacks....
...New insight shows how the Swiss bank, which has lent money to NSO, responded as the company faced a cash crunch towards the end of last year — triggered by reports about the misuse of Pegasus....
...US defence group in talks to buy Pegasus spyware L3Harris, a top-10 US defence contractor, is in talks to buy the hacking technology behind Pegasus, the military-grade spyware developed by Israel’s NSO Group...
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