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...From London and Abu Dhabi, Sawiris is building NNS into a holding company that can manage his various investments — including Aston Villa....
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...A person close to the family said the letter from the Abu Dhabi bank over funding should be sufficient to show that the offer was real....
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...The Financial Times has previously reported that Lazard engaged in negotiations to sell itself to ADQ, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, but that the sides ultimately failed to agree terms....
...Abu Dhabi energy group Taqa is in talks that could lead to a multibillion euro takeover bid for Spanish utility Naturgy and extend a Gulf push into European industry....
...Private equity group Carlyle and Abu Dhabi investment group IMI have agreed a fresh debt funding package for the Barclay family’s Very Group, the Liverpool-based retail and financial services group....
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...RedBird IMI is run by former CNN boss Jeff Zucker in New York but has the majority of its funding from Abu Dhabi....
...UK culture minister Lucy Frazer is poised to order a probe on public-interest grounds of the proposed takeover of Telegraph Media Group by Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI, in a move that could hold up the sale...
...Furthermore, Abu Dhabi, which provides about three-quarters of the money behind RedBird IMI, is a British ally in the Middle East and a source of inward investment....
...The event is sponsored by Lloyds, where representatives of Abu Dhabi are also expected to attend....
...Shareholders, which include the pension funds Omers and USS as well as the Abu Dhabi and Chinese sovereign wealth funds, would take losses estimated at £5bn, a fact they acknowledged in March when they refused...
...The Barclay family has regained legal ownership of the Telegraph for the next few months, as the newspaper’s prospective Abu Dhabi-backed owner awaits the outcome of a UK government probe into its takeover...
...The £600mn takeover of the Telegraph Media Group by Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI could face an in-depth regulatory review, giving the UK government more time to change the law to formally block the deal...
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...Redbird IMI, which is run by former CNN boss Jeff Zucker but majority owned by an Abu Dhabi fund, has already promised to maintain the Telegraph’s editorial independence....
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