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...“We want to establish a clear path for the bank that will strengthen our franchise for the long term....
...Together with investors including hedge fund manager Steve Cohen and Atlanta Falcons NFL franchise owner Arthur Blank, Henry and Fenway are paying up to $3bn for a minority stake....
...Middleton handled Lehman’s liquidation with “speed and aggression”, the former colleague said, including agreeing to sell its Asia-Pacific franchise to Nomura within days of the bank’s collapse....
...“Until that stadium opens you need to make sure you build it on time and at cost,” says Greg Carey, global co-head of sports franchise at Goldman Sachs....
...Amid New Orleans festivities, rainmakers wonder if the party is over for Delaware Delaware, Inc. may be the enterprise now under the most intense activist threat....
...Domino’s Pizza will no longer be available in Russia after the US brand’s local franchise operator on Monday announced it was following other western companies in leaving the country....
...TKO Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, with Endeavor holding a 51 per cent controlling interest and WWE shareholders 49 per cent....
...The CMA granted provisional approval last month, holding a short consultation before clearing the deal on Friday....
...The pair are among a group of investors buying a 24 per cent stake in Formula One team Alpine, the Renault-backed racing franchise, though it’s unclear how much money the two actors are actually putting...
...According to Berkshire’s second-quarter report, as of June 30, the company’s holding of Apple was worth $178bn....
...originating certain kinds of loans than the banks it competes with; it sells a lot of those loans on to banks or securitises them, which keeps the balance sheet tight; and now they are building a deposit franchise...
...Sega Sammy, the Japanese gamesmaker behind the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has launched a €706mn ($776mn) offer for Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish group that gave the world Angry Birds....
...The transaction left GSK and Pfizer holding 13.5 per cent and 32 per cent of the shares, respectively....
...“We’re not going to be picky about who we do business with as long as they meet the standards of our franchise.”...
...EU regulators have cleared Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, breaking from the UK and US which are holding up the gaming industry’s biggest deal....
...Walk away from the deal, and you can probably forget about having an investment banking franchise in India....
...In January 2022, Bank of America analysts suggested that the “franchise could be worth US$12.5bn-$15.5bn”....
...One thing to start: The Phoenix Suns are on track to set a record price for the sale of a National Basketball Association franchise, with mortgage lending billionaire Mat Ishbia nearing a $4bn deal to acquire...
...Raising the spectre of Microsoft making Activision’s Call of Duty exclusive to its Xbox console, the UK regulator said the companies may even have to sell the franchise to get their deal through....
...It’s clear that the wind-down path makes the most sense given the many complicating factors,” said Titi Cole, head of legacy franchises at Citi....
...Yet even as Flatt built an asset management franchise to rival those of Wall Street, Brookfield’s balance sheet has remained as a vestige of its conglomerate past....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 9 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...The company, owned by Comcast, has held the US rights to the Games since the summer Olympics in 1988 — a lucrative franchise that has raked in billions of dollars in advertising over the years....
...The retired French champion has traded in his Nordic skis for the Alpine variety, taking some advice from lyrics by Dem Franchise Boyz for how to navigate the slalom....
...Tesla’s bitcoin holdings were worth $1.3bn at the end of the second quarter. Unrealised gains and losses tend to be recorded using mark-to-market accounting....
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