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...Over the past year and a half, activists including Dan Loeb and Nelson Peltz have set their sights on Disney....
...The Hollywood factor added glamour to the fair, whose arty crowd included actors Jessica Biel and Robert Downey Jr, and basketball superstar LeBron James....
...Ethan WuIn Ackman’s case and in Loeb’s case, you know, Icahn’s main competitors, the stock trades below the value of the stuff. So that makes Icahn’s—....
...Arseniy Yatseniuk Chairman, Kyiv Security Forum; Prime Minister of Ukraine 2014 and 2014-2016 Lawrence H Summers President Emeritus of Harvard University, US Treasury Secretary 1999-2001 Amb Robert B Zoellick...
...Google even staged a nice little rally, after Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb disclosed fresh investments. Today, more on consumers and a look at high-yield bonds....
...(DD readers may remember Disney’s quarrel with activist Dan Loeb over ESPN.)...
...Email us your conspiracy theories: robert.armstrong@ft.com & ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Mr Loeb will be the sole general partner of the new fund, which will also be led by Robert Schwartz, a Silicon Valley-based managing partner who has overseen Third Point’s venture investments since 2000....
...Global Value Fund’s Staude was also part of the activist group facing Loeb....
...Disney boss rejects Loeb’s calls to spin off ESPN Bob Chapek, Walt Disney chief executive, has rejected calls by activist investor Dan Loeb to sell or spin off the ESPN sports television network, vowing...
...US billionaire Dan Loeb’s UK-listed vehicle ran into similar problems....
...Activist investor Dan Loeb appeared to pull back from urging Disney to sell or spin off its ESPN sports television network....
...Separately, Linda Sim has joined as a Los Angeles-based partner in its M&A practice from Loeb & Loeb. Dasha Sobornova has joined Akin Gump’s structured finance team as a partner in its London office....
...He followed in the footsteps of his father, also an engineer named Robert, to the Rochester Polytechnic Institute, in upstate New York and finished at the top of his class....
...Daniel Loeb’s Third Point has made a profit of around $300m on its stake in Rivian in the wake of the electric truckmaker’s IPO this month....
...Complicating the task further are the dual threats of rival Nvidia, and activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point....
...But following a trading update this week, chief executive Simon Roberts was quick to shoot down speculation. “If we had anything to update on, we’d be updating on it,” he curtly told reporters....
...In this new feature, he details how traces of Robert Maxwell, Sumner Redstone, Gina Rinehart and James Packer are in evidence, and how many of the show’s other outrageous twists have parallels in actual...
...UK’s Prudential is also seeking to split off Jackson, its US life insurance business, under pressure from the activist investor Daniel Loeb....
...The set-up recalls the case of George Strawbridge, grandson of the founder of Campbell’s Soup, who allied with activist hedge fund investor Dan Loeb to oust the entire board....
...UK’s Prudential is also seeking to split off Jackson, its US life business, under pressure from the activist investor Daniel Loeb....
...Cappellazzo, arm characteristically high in the air, had placed bids on works by Clyfford Still, Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Colescott. “It was exciting, even in a limited capacity, to have people back....
...Separately, Citigroup promoted three of its managing directors within consumer and retail banking: Emre Eler and Robert Plowman to co-heads of Emea consumer products investment banking and Roberto Costa...
...Also out on Thursday is a quarterly update from recruiter Robert Walters....
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