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...“[I]f JetBlue were permitted to gobble up Spirit — at least as proposed — it would eliminate one of the airline industry’s few primary competitors that provides unique innovation and price discipline,” Judge...
...Exhibit A: “This is a big f-ing deal,” said Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club....
...Boris Johnson infamously said “F**k business!”; that was an expression of exasperation but more importantly it was an abrogation of responsibility....
...In another reported exchange, Forlano replied that “Rigatoni”, a nickname for Viggiano, “literally works for” Blackstone, and Bleckley responded, “F[**]k u should’ve told me f[**]k the feds.”...
...He served on Sainsbury’s board and chaired insurer LV during its failed attempt to be taken over by private equity group Bain Capital....
...There is a poignant joke at the end of Tammy Faye, between Tammy and her fellow evangelist Jerry Falwell, I tell him, which prompts from the audience a sound that is halfway between a laugh and a sigh that...
...The party had already sent out the same message by launching raids earlier this year on the Chinese offices of US consultancies Bain, Capvision and Mintz....
...And here’s a smart listen: increasing barriers to achieving financial security have led a younger generation of investors to say, “F@$K it”....
...As with Ink and Tammy Faye, Graham focuses on a specific moment that seems to crystallise a shift....
...The case centred on the $33bn LBO of HCA, which was won by Bain Capital, KKR and Merrill Lynch, after there were no other competing bids....
...Iona Bain In an ideal world, yes....
...But when Nato decided to penetrate deep into Russia’s long-stated areas of vital interest, Putin had to respond, just as President John F Kennedy did in 1962 when the Soviet Union tried to penetrate into...
...Representatives for H&F and Bain Capital declined to comment....
...At the time, H&F outbid Permira in a shootout for the group....
...The Series F round was led by Sequoia Capital, with Ribbit Capital NEA and 9Yards Capital also taking part....
...Private equity groups, including Blackstone and H&F alongside Carlyle, KKR and others, took the company private in 2006. In 2011 the group took Nielsen public with a total debt of more than $8bn....
...Glass Lewis, on the other hand, gave the pay plan a “F” grade but said shareholders should support it. That’s essentially a: “you’ve failed with flying colours”....
...She doesn’t know who the f— she’s tweeting. I gave away more in the year then she has in her whole f—-ing lifetime.”...
...H&F, whose deal team is being led by its deputy chief executive, Patrick Healy, will acquire a majority of Nets, with a group of co-investors who are helping to fund the takeover....
...Just this week, German lighting group Osram, with a market value of €4bn, said it was in talks to be acquired by Carlyle and Bain Capital....
...“Read the f**king plan,” the Rottweiler growled. “We haven’t spent two years developing it for the minister in charge not to read it.”...
...Most recently, French group Worldline won a fight to buy Swiss stock market operator SIX’s payments unit for €2.3bn, narrowly beating a rival bid from Nets owner H & F....
...That’s exactly what’s happened since 2010, according to an analysis from Bain & Company we reported on back in March: PE managers failed to execute but were bailed out by a nearly 25 per cent increase in...
...In an ironic twist of faith, it would be going back to its original owners as both Blackstone and H&F used to own it in 2006....
...H&F originally invested in Verisure in 2011 alongside Bain Capital, before buying out Bain’s stake in 2015 and investing €574m of further equity in the group....
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