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...It’s an important win for activists in Korea Inc., where corporate behemoths including Samsung and Hyundai operate without much interference....
...Its foray is led by entertainment industry insiders Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs....
...Benjamin Wilson, head of shareholder activism in North America at JPMorgan Chase, has left the US bank to take a senior role in the M&A department of Guggenheim Partners, Reuters reported and DD confirmed...
...This remaking of Japan Inc rests on a critical structural shift: the changing role of banks....
...Braun joins from Ondra Partners. Before that he was at JPMorgan Chase....
...“Those people are kind of our boots on the ground,” he said, referring to about 90 staff in Phoenix in underwriting and verification....
...Team 8, which described itself as a “start-up for start-ups”, announced its launch in Tel Aviv on Tuesday with $18m of investment from Cisco Investments, Market LLC, Bessemer Venture Partners and Innovation...
...string of venture capital groups like Norwest Venture Partners and Canaan Partners....
...Dan Loeb’s Third Point took $1bn-plus stakes in Sony and SoftBank in 2013, though his overture to Sony suggesting it partially spin off its entertainment business was rebuffed....
...News Corp is understood to be working with bankers at Centerview Partners, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase and lawyers at Skadden Arps....
...Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, two former executives with Spyglass Entertainment, were appointed co-chairmen and co-chief executives of MGM....
...media group Nine Entertainment....
...Caesars Entertainment made a nominal float earlier this year, but is still waiting for a larger sale and an exit for its largest investors....
...Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JPMorgan....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...One Equity Partners had been working with Bob Sillerman, who stepped down as chairman and chief executive of CKX this month to pursue buyout plans....
...CKX, which owns the hit American Idol television programme and the rights to the Elvis Presley estate, is in talks over a sale to One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JPMorgan....
...Rival buy-out groups, including Bain Capital, Carlyle, Advent International, Hellman & Friedman and a consortium of CVC Capital Partners and BC Partners, attempted to pre-empt the planned listing of Kabel...
...While CAA and WME2 slug it out, opportunities have emerged for UTA and ICM. “Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Walt Disney, the venture’s marketing and distribution partner, is expected to provide $175m in mezzanine finance. ”I’m not sure it speaks to the broader market as much as it speaks to the quality of the...
...“Proponents of a V-shaped [economic] recovery are underestimating how much rising unemployment and an unstable structure of indebtedness can lengthen and deepen this recession,” says Sandy Chen, banks analyst...
...The insurer, which is being advised by Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Blackstone, would prefer to secure nearly $20bn in capital from private equity investors to provide itself with a thicker cushion....
...of Geoff Boisi, the former Goldman Sachs partner who founded the firm....
...In spite of early strength, stocks slowly turned lower during the day, with investors reluctant to chase the market at elevated levels said traders....
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