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...Vivacom is being sold by Spas Roussev, a London-based Bulgarian businessman, and the London arm of Russian bank VTB, which together took control of the company in a 2015 auction after a debt default....
...Some big ventures are expected to fail, or retreat. Smaller and midsized studios may take a more limited role as suppliers to the dominant platforms....
...Zama is twice as big as Trion, a deepwater field in the north of the Gulf that BHP Billiton partnered with Pemex to develop, in the first joint venture in the Mexican company’s 79-year history....
...Those ventures are typically small satellite ventures in the hundreds of millions of dollars, not multiple billions....
...Venture a few steps further and you soon realise that so are the blue and yellow runners that stretch down the long hall....
...But development was dogged by disputes and two years ago the steel giant pulled the plug on the $2.1bn venture – the single biggest foreign investment in Bolivia....
...Eni will have 50 per cent of the venture and EDF, 5 per cent, with the remainder held by Ukrainian state-owned companies Vody Ukrainy (35 per cent) and Chornomornaftogaz (10 per cent)....
...They are setting up a joint venture called “IQ Made in Italy” (oooh, the word play) to invest up to €2bn, shared equally, “in Italian companies operating in some of the sectors of so-called ‘Made in Italy...
...One, Nikki Beach, will be the second hotel venture by the brash Miami-based beach-club brand....
...The Plus Market-traded publishing house scored major coup in 2007 when it secured the English language print and digital rights to Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium series”, the Swedish detective trilogy that...
...Ferretti and Shandong Heavy announced a memorandum of understanding in July to establish a joint venture in the design, construction and marketing of yachts for China....
...“Digital Plus now has two very big beasts as partners in a joint venture and there won’t be many trade buyers for a 56 per cent share of something where Mediaset and Telefónica have got big stakes [because...
...Last month, as Li Keqiang, the Chinese vice-premier, toured Hong Kong, the trio announced that they had embarked on a joint venture to develop cross-border products....
...“My family was not ready to sell the company, but it was ready to change the profile of its entrepreneurial venture,” says Mr Trapani, who becomes head of LVMH’s watches and jewellery division....
...Enel, the state-controlled utility which has set up a nuclear joint venture with EDF, believes new reactors can come on stream by 2020, but Dr Veronesi hoped construction can be quicker....
...The French and German groups in February renewed their joint venture in small engines and both say they want to go further....
...Added to that, the growth of internet television and on-demand viewing from platforms similar to the Hulu venture in the US was expected to cannibalise advertising from established television companies....
...“IPOs in 2009 represented only 10 per cent of venture-backed exits and M&A was 90 per cent,” said Mr Tardy-Joubert....
...Second, to make such a salvage work all the European governments involved would probably have to consider taking part in the venture....
...● Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that earlier this month agreed to create a “dark pool” trading venue in a joint venture with the LSE, has applied to become a trading participant in Turquoise....
...That the venture is now successfully off the ground is a small but nonetheless significant victory. New York and London are already full of Italian refugees doing very nicely for themselves....
...There is also a golf academy with a floodlit driving range, practice range, golf shop and teaching bays and a luxurious clubhouse, with its own bar, restaurant, health club and spa....
...However, even then, any tie up between the two exchanges should not be a merger or acquisition but rather “an alliance”, suggesting some sort of joint venture between the groups, the report said....
...This can’t be what he wants from his new venture....
...Lottomatica is majority-owned by De Agostini, the privately held Italian conglomerate best known for its maps and publishing ventures....
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