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...unconvinced by an $11bn offer from Apollo for its Hollywood studio, people briefed on the matter said, and is instead negotiating a rival deal with billionaire David Ellison to secure the future of her family...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Last year Driftwood lost two more high-profile buyers in Shell and Vitol and was forced to abandon a $1bn bond sale. Tellurian’s shares have lost 80 per cent of their value since 2019....
...The suit filed at the London High Court last July alleged that their shell company was in line to receive €100bn for United Nations-approved funding of humanitarian projects, but that the first instalment...
...Brookfield’s acquisition of AGL shares prompted speculation the company could again be planning to join forces with Cannon-Brookes, who owns an 11 per cent stake in the company through his family office...
...Galperin’s focus, meanwhile, stretches far beyond any legal disputes in Argentina — he prefers to liken his company to the cross-cultural energy group Royal Dutch Shell....
...SAI co-founder Bill Watson said that following a death in the family he was not able to comment. Another peculiarity is around the role of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury....
...One thing to start: Credit Suisse made just $17.5m of revenue last year from Archegos Capital, the family office whose sudden collapse in March caused the Swiss bank $5.4bn in losses....
...But the events embroiling Samsung’s founding Lee family are the latest twists in a decades-long saga. At its heart is Lee Jae-yong....
...The project will come to a climax in Miami at Art Basel in December, when these structures will be joined by a third, this time in the shape of a conch shell....
...Mr Hefner died in 2017 aged 91, and his family sold its 35 per cent stake for $35m to the tech-focused investment fund in 2018....
...ConocoPhillips boss Ryan Lance isn’t too perturbed, however, as he shells out $13.3bn to create the world’s largest independent oil and gas producer....
...He is replaced by the former executive vice-president of Royal Dutch Shell’s upstream joint-ventures business, Sami Iskander. More here. Squarespace hired Marcela Martin as its new finance chief....
...“These were shell companies — they had a PO box address at Fujairah [in the UAE] but didn’t have any real business activities,” said one person familiar with the audit probe....
...Outside the office, Mr Van Hassel enjoys experimenting with complicated recipes for family guests. “I’m a good hobby cook and a wine lover, particularly burgundy....
...Friends of the family: why Sanjeev Gupta’s bank drew regulatory scrutiny For a while now, DD has been taking you inside the steel empire of Sanjeev Gupta — the “Gupta Family Group” or GFG Alliance....
...Outside, hospitals are deluged and families hole up indoors for the better part of a year....
...At the centre of the transaction was Pagurian Corporation, which was controlled by executives including Mr Cockwell and shared its name with a species of crab that, having no shell of its own, steals the...
...Nurses and doctors sleep there to avoid the risk of infecting their families back home. The UN building is empty, he tells me....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The company did make the first electric sports car, collaborating with Tesla to fit a battery to the shell of a Lotus Elise to make the Roadster in 2010, but since then has sat out of the technology race...
...As you enjoy the season with your families, please reflect with us on the year that has passed. It was weird. We mean: all years are weird, like all families are weird....
...His childhood household, living in 1970s Chelsea and then Soho, valued the power of the dinner table to knit a family together: “Both my parents were my education in food,” he says....
...And advises it to find a deep-pocketed buyer, like the New York Times’ Sulzberger family or “even Rupert Murdoch”. “I don’t think there’s any other way to protect the paper,” he adds....
...Shareholder activism has been on the rise around the world, with companies as established as Royal Dutch Shell and Deutsche Bank recently having faced opposition from their investors....
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