Hints and tips:
...“The fact that the Greensill Group subsequently misused the funds for another purpose — which was not discovered by the SoftBank defendants until after the transaction was complete — does not make the SoftBank...
...The defendants are yet to respond to the lawsuit in court....
...PWP was advising on all the transactions....
...The defendant in the previously unreported case is Guernsey-based Elanus Holdings Limited, which Qipco says is controlled by the heirs of the late Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani, who led the acquisition...
...PDT argued that the action was aimed at forcing a distressed sale and, when that failed, securing a ransom payment for access....
...He was Sotheby’s top salesperson for private transactions worldwide for the past three years, the auction house said....
...It provides a rare glimpse into the world of private art sales, where anonymity and discretion are typically paramount, and how transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars are brokered between prestigious...
...Bouvier is not a defendant in the Sotheby’s trial, and has maintained his innocence in his art sales to Rybolovlev....
...That a purchaser bought the coins directly from the defendants or, instead, in a secondary resale transaction has no impact on whether a reasonable individual would objectively view the defendants’ actions...
...By the time of the sale, the project had become an embarrassing symbol of the Holy See’s opaque, inept financial management....
...One of the defendants in both cases, Re/Max, agreed earlier this month to pay $55mn into a settlement fund for both complaints, while another, formerly known as Realogy Holdings Corp, agreed to provide monetary...
...He claims that the defendants violated the laws of California, Colorado, Illinois, and Massachusetts by misrepresenting or omitting facts in connection with the sale of syndicated loans, possibly out of...
...Patriotic judges were installed to handle security-related cases with foreign lawyers barred from representing defendants....
...Javice herself stood to make $45mn from the sale of the company she founded in 2016, prosecutors said....
...The two transactions would have been handled by separate parts of Goldman....
...The judge added: “I do not see why it was legally improper for the defendant to have been motivated by these economic concerns which plainly are of national importance.”...
...Trafigura also brought its claim against a wider set of defendants that it alleges Gupta has “de facto” control of — Spring Metal, Mine Craft and New Alloys Trading....
...The transaction was not, however, completed before FTX’s collapse. We aren’t lawyers, but a “retroactive sale” sounds like an interesting strategy....
...While Gupta initially claimed TMT had raised €50mn through a bond sale, he later said know-your-customer “issues” were holding up the money from clearing....
...That deal allows either Comcast or Disney to force the transaction as early as January 2024 in a sale that would value Hulu at a minimum of $27.5bn....
...Activities include off-grid gas marketing, sales of heating oil and biodiesel, distribution of consumer electronics, and the manufacture of medical products....
...“From the outset, defendants’ information requests were designed to try to tank the deal....
...Twitter is arguing this must now be honoured because all sale conditions will be met....
...One company that did was LVMH, which got jeweller Tiffany to lower its sale price during the pandemic....
...Staveley’s husband, Mehrdad Ghodoussi, is the other defendant named in the claim as the guarantor....
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