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...“I thought it was better to talk to people directly than through headhunters,” he said. “I’m a front door sorta guy. I think it was effective and I’d do it again.”...
...The cases against Meta have now really been reduced to two acquisitions: Instagram and WhatsApp. But we’ve got a statute for dealing with acquisitions....
...“I think if you were selling all of this as is there’d be a line of bidders around the block to actually buy all the content, all the bundling of Hulu,” Roberts told a Goldman Sachs conference in September...
...“We haven’t seen a very large single-B leveraged buyout tested in our market but . . . I think there’s demand for it.” Investors have had limited bond and loan financings to entertain this year....
...“People told me I was crazy, that we’d never be able to attract the foot traffic we’d need....
...In an Instagram post last month, he said that becoming a public company was “not an experience I’d recommend to anyone”, but added that the experience had been “a decent test of our start-up mentality”....
...“It’s certainly not an experience I’d recommend to anyone, but it’s been a decent test of our start-up mentality.”...
...The swashbuckling Englishman once described by a fellow pheasant shooter as “the rudest man I’ve ever met” spent his early career facilitating payments for online gambling groups aboard a yacht in Monaco...
...Who billionaire’d it better?...
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...What I saw then was something I never thought I’d see, which is that people would imprint their lives into that world....
...That turnround strategy hit a snag when he broke off a $1.4bn US acquisition of Wealthfront, a deal that would have been UBS’s largest acquisition since the 2008 financial crisis and helped Hamers’s strategy...
...I asked the PM’s office this week why new legislation was necessary, given such a strong defence of his country’s laws. I didn’t receive a response....
...“In August I heard lots of big asset managers [were] putting in big tickets and they were excited to get a big coupon,” the lender said. “After CPI that kind of fell apart....
...“So I think whoever buys Chelsea today at the prices we’re talking about is getting it for a steal.”...
...Explaining the deal in a note to staff, he said: “I am as energised as ever.”...
...“I’d not be very comfortable if we had balances” at one of the banks caught up in the scandal, said the head of a large Europe-based hedge fund firm....
...The latest UK institution to see a high-profile departure is Linklaters, but not in the way you’d expect....
...“I am an obsessive compulsive sicko collector,” he has said. “I love the art of acquisition . . . My wife goes to bed at 11, and I wander around and I rehang things in the apartment....
...I’d be nervous on some of these growthier deals about constant multiples on the way out five years from now.” Watch the full private equity panel held by DD’s Kaye Wiggins....
...The club has made a net transfer profit — sales minus acquisitions — of almost €200m over the past two years, he says....
...I think that B assets are getting priced like A assets and A assets are getting priced like A+ assets,” he says....
...“Ten years ago, I don’t know anyone who thought they’d still be growing at 20 per cent,” said Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets....
...I would say it has gotten worse. You have all these people saying that a no-deal Brexit would be fine. To me, that’s worse.”...
...Michael Leuchten, a research analyst at UBS, credited Soriot with “giving the organisation its R&D mojo back”....
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