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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...He has donated more than $600mn to Chicago organisations, even funding the reconstruction of the city’s pedestrian and cycling path along Lake Michigan....
...In September, Lewis told Bloomberg that he had lined up funding for a bid for the paper. He plans to withdraw from the bidding process, according to a person familiar with the situation....
...Icahn wants to appoint three new directors to the board and remove Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza and chair John Thompson....
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...Last month, former England hooker Steve Thompson, alongside seven former rugby players, began legal proceedings against governing bodies over claims years of collisions and concussions had left them with...
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...LumRisk, which provides risk analysis to institutional investors who hold large portfolios, recently received SFr7.5m funding from unidentified investors....
...The Financial Times verified Chinese users’ findings and found with its own examination that Redcore was using components from the v. 49 version of Google Chrome....
...It established the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School three years ago, providing funding for PhDs and academics. Links to US colleges are less formal but no less important....
...Two years ago Manchester estimated that it faced a £2bn health funding deficit by 2021 if it continued as before, delivering a powerful spur for change....
...Airbnb, Uber and other technology innovators have avoided the cost and scrutiny of public ownership thanks to a surge in the availability of private funding....
...However, ULA’s reliability record may be challenged by a significant looming upheaval facing its main rocket, the Atlas V....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...“We [paid] about $10m to be on Spike and we ended up funding . . . close to $50m before we broke even and started making money,” he said. But self-funding had its advantages....
...Blue Origin — a private company funded by Mr Bezos, the founder of Amazon — has not needed to seek outside funding....
...The rebuffing of the bid made life harder for Aerojet, Mr Thompson added....
...Punter Southall, a firm which advises employers on pension funding, recently described the freedoms as a “new dawn” for pension liability management....
...Still, the selection process is tight: only around 25 films can be chosen for funding out of the 400 applications the fund receives each year....
...The loss factored in about £350m of funding costs incurred since the government raised the money to buy its stake in 2009....
...For Andy Golding, chief executive of Kent Reliance and OneSavings Bank – the vehicle for JC Flowers’ stake in Kent Reliance – the appeal of a private equity investor, particularly for a funding-constrained...
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It reminds us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...It has recently won funding from Atomico, the international venture capital firm formed by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype....
...For example, its $17.4bn TPG V fund was valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar at the end of 2010....
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