Hints and tips:
...Earlier this week the regulator hired real estate specialist Newmark to sell $60bn of Signature Bank loans....
...The disposals have angered big investors who feel the entrepreneur has abandoned the carmaker to focus on his new purchase....
...He works with the Napa Communities Firewise Foundation as a wildfire mitigation specialist....
...Returns would flow largely from financial engineering: sale and leaseback of properties, disposals including petrol stations, and from increasing debt and cutting costs....
...Fujitsu’s M&A strategy is spearheaded by Nicholas Fraser, an acquisition specialist poached from McKinsey, the professional services firm, in March....
...The planned disposal of StubHub follows eBay’s spin-off of PayPal in 2015....
...Research companies and consultancies have been buying up specialist commodity data providers to meet demand....
...“I’m not convinced grocery sales online are ever going to be profitable,” said Paula Rosenblum, managing partner at the retail technology specialists RSR Research....
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse are advising Bombardier on the disposal....
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...US energy majors have been refocusing their business on opportunities in the US shale sector, while the North Sea is increasingly populated by smaller, specialist operators focused on squeezing more value...
...“We would not be just pure transformers as you may have seen in other securitisation models,” Mr Ahmed said....
...Canadian plane and train manufacturer Bombardier is planning to cut 5,000 jobs and pull out of making turbo-prop passenger aircraft as part of a $900m disposal programme over the next 12 to 18 months....
...That compares with the 8,000 specialists currently employed in the area — the region worst hit by the UK skills shortage....
...Among the occupants of The Habitat , all specialists in their fields, are astrobiologist Cyprien, physicist Christiane, safety officer and doctor Shey, and Tristan, an architectural researcher....
...Private equity groups are set to benefit from further disposals of units by large conglomerates worldwide as they come under pressure from shareholders and regulators....
...Sell: Pearson (PSON) Pearson has been slimming and the proceeds of various disposals helped wipe £600m off the year-end net debt figure, writes Megan Boxall....
...The biggest US insurer by market value said on Tuesday it had struck a deal to sell Stowe Mountain Resort’s operations in New England to Vail Resorts, a listed specialist in managing such assets....
...But more recently it has faced calls from activist billionaire Carl Icahn to improve returns and accelerate the pace of disposals....
...So far, so good — though I doubt the same buyout specialists will keep my ancestors safe forever. My fears are not unusual....
...Cambian Group, a UK-listed mental healthcare specialist, is offloading some of its business as it struggles with mounting debts, while Four Seasons, Britain’s biggest care home operator, is also in the process...
...In short, the major turnaround that was expected following the disposal of Uber’s main loss-leading operation has yet to show up....
...The deal is the latest disposal by AIG, which last month agreed to sell its mortgage insurance business to Arch Capital for $3.4bn....
...He portrayed Arcanum as “some sort of super service that has super resources at their disposal”, Ablyazov remembers....
...Mr Lutnick has a knack of extracting high prices for disposals....
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