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...A top Manchester United shareholder said he was in the dark over the Premier League football club’s future, as the Glazer family continued talks with British chemicals tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe over potential...
...Sir Jim Ratcliffe, billionaire founder of UK chemicals group Ineos, has also made an offer to buy the club, the company confirmed in a statement on Saturday....
...It expanded into advising on employee benefits and wealth management through the purchase of Premier Pensions Management in January 2022....
...The US National Football League and Amazon Web Services have developed a player health tool known as the Digital Athlete, which they hope may in time be able to predict and prevent injuries....
...In September, UK private equity house Cinven struck a deal to buy back the outstanding shares in Synlab, a laboratory and medical diagnostic services company in which it retained a 40 per cent stake, after...
...Hovenkamp: Chemicals in the mid-century. Even still today, things like high-fructose corn syrup. Heavy industry, early in the 20th century....
...EMC’s premier asset was its 81 per cent stake in VMware, a cloud computing specialist which last week was sold to Broadcom for $92bn....
...The organisers of the conference, held in the scenic Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, announced on Friday that China’s second-ranked official premier Li Qiang would preside over the event this year...
...Frozen assets: Estonia’s premier Kaja Kallas says Russian assets must be seized before a potential new Trump presidency....
...“We need to populate all the key roles with people who are best in class, 10 out of 10s”, said the chemicals billionaire....
...In 2015 that changed with the launch of Nike’s SNKRS app, its proprietary service for releasing high-demand shoes in limited quantities....
...British Virgin Islands: The trial of the territory’s former premier Andrew Fahie begins in a Miami court on charges of drug smuggling, money laundering and racketeering....
...Apollo’s private equity business said it found bargains, taking private chemicals company, Univar for $8bn and Arconic, the metal products company for $5bn....
...Kindler said he was excited to be part of what he described as “the premier franchise for M&A and activism defence”....
...“The management team and I are excited to return to our heritage of owning and leading the premier healthcare investment bank and relaunching the business under the trusted Leerink Partners brand,” said...
...Two other large private equity buyouts were announced this week: the acquisition of another software business, Cvent, for $4.6bn and the $8.1bn purchase of chemical company Univar....
...The British chemicals billionaire turned 71 this week, but his next big present from the club isn’t quite ready: a seat on the board....
...Third Point, run by activist investor Daniel Loeb, wrote to its investors on Wednesday saying that dividing Shell into a legacy oil, refining and chemicals company, and a separate gas, renewables and marketing...
...US chemicals group Albemarle may, therefore, be overpaying by offering $4.3bn for Liontown, an Australian lithium miner....
...British chemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe hopes to get the green light to wrap up a minority investment in Manchester United in the coming days, after his only rival suitor for the Premier League club...
...Super-cyclicals such as chips, chemicals and steel are carrying the tech and materials sectors. Airlines and homebuilders are screaming. It goes on and on....
...The services sector contracted less than estimated in September, according to updated PMI survey data....
...Chart du jour: Strong labour With low unemployment, many countries struggle with labour shortages — especially in the services sector....
...Apple, Amazon and Meta have in recent years have paid billions of dollars for the rights to screen events from the NFL to English Premier League football matches....
...Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister for 13 years before he became premier in 2014....
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