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...Each B share has 10 times the voting rights of a single A share. Ordinarily the B shares would convert into A shares on sale by the Glazers....
...The Glazers control the company through supervoting B shares, which do not trade on the open market....
...One issue around Ratcliffe’s plan to buy the B shares is that United stock exchange filings say the class B shares are “automatically and immediately” converted into class A shares on transfer from the Glazers...
...Kroll Bond Rating Agency had given the club’s planned private placement a preliminary rating of triple B plus and a stable outlook on February 3 but later that month it lowered it to triple B, citing a revised...
...The Ratcliffe deal allows the Glazers to retain overall control of the club while making at least $900mn from the sale of 25 per cent of their B shares, which carry more voting rights....
...Typically, B shares convert into A shares when the Glazers sell. However, one of the people said the goal is for Ratcliffe to hold B shares because of the appeal of the voting rights....
...Under the terms of the deal being discussed, the Ineos founder is set to buy about a quarter of United’s A and B shares from the Glazers, who have controlled the club since 2005, according to people familiar...
...The government now needs to show it has a Plan B, as its preferred policy cannot be easily resurrected before the next general election....
...A dual-class share structure that gives B shares 10 times the voting rights of A shares has allowed the family to keep tight control of the club....
...In 1937 the writer began what would have been his first theatrical play, to be called Human Wishes, and based on the life of Samuel Johnson....
...Ratcliffe’s attempt to pull off a deal has been complicated by United’s dual class share structure, which would require the billionaire to secure the B shares currently held by the Glazers and that come...
...There’s not enough storage, and so prices have to go to a point where they curtail supply,” said Ademiju Allen, senior analyst at Rystad Energy....
...Deadpool star Reynolds will invest alongside actor Michael B Jordan and Rob McElhenney, one of the co-writers behind the sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia....
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...B, a biography of choreographer George Balanchine. Each wins £5,000....
...Chinese-manufactured 3D printers apparently retail in Russia for the rouble equivalent of a few hundred dollars,” said Allen Maggard, a Russian defence industry analyst at US think-tank C4ADS....
...“No-holds-barred free speech is a flawed idea,” says Samuel Woolley, a propaganda expert and assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, arguing that it is “powerful and highly organised groups...
...The US Supreme Court has adopted its first code of conduct in a landmark move that follows reports earlier this year that Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito failed to disclose gifts and...
...Rabadan defended both the parade and the Seine clean-up efforts: “There is no plan B, since pulling off plan A will be complicated enough.”...
...That merchant bank is Hill Samuel Australia, better known by the name it took after becoming independent in 1985: Macquarie....
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...The largest holder of Paramount’s B shares is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which in 2022 disclosed a stake of about 75mn shares at $28 per share — almost twice the share price today....
...Do read on — Samuel Agini, sports business reporter Rugby Union’s new World Cup hope Before the Rugby World Cup began, former England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson told Scoreboard that Ireland or France looked...
...Samuel Tesfai and his high school friends in Baltimore have been shifting tactics in their applications to elite US colleges after the Supreme Court this June ruled against affirmative action in student...
...People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times’ Samuel Agini and DD’s Arash Massoudi that one potential solution is for the Glazers to vote on a change that would prevent the B shares from converting...
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