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...TPG sold a controlling stake in the talent agency CAA to Artémis, the holding company of the Pinault family, at a $7bn valuation....
...To our right the Selá carves its way through the treeless, edge-of-the-world tundra of north-east Iceland....
...“It’s on the sponsor to defend their portfolio,” said John Kline, managing director of New Mountain Capital....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
...The search engine said it was holding off to allow more time for discussion with regulators and companies involved in digital advertising, and to “avoid jeopardising the business models of many web publishers...
...The men engage in fly-fishing, wine-tasting and economic debate amid the mountains’ pristine beauty....
...The cash mountain Even the heightened rate of buybacks may not cap the growth in Alphabet’s cash mountain....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...The dealmaking, including buying the data storage company EMC for $67bn, led to a mountain of more than $50bn in debt....
...Keurig Green Mountain, the coffee group owned by JAB Holding, said in January that it was acquiring the soda maker to create a new public company called Keurig Dr Pepper, trading under the ticker KDP....
...Green Mountain coffee business....
...It has flown for an hour over mountains and the taiga, forest plains that stretch endlessly in all directions....
...High-profile investors including Apollo, Brigade Capital and Blue Mountain are among those who having been buying tranches with a maturity of two to three years....
...The utility group later collapsed under a mountain of debt it had taken on as part of the private equity groups’ buyout. Berkshire lost $1bn of the $2.1bn it spent on junk bonds issued by TXU....
...The sheer size of the deal epitomised the hubris of buyout players in the run-up to the financial crisis — and later contributed to the downfall of the utility group, which collapsed under a mountain of...
...Dell’s holding company, Denali, has set up a capital stock committee, made up of independent directors, to review any changes to the shares in future....
...Germany’s secretive Reimann family has launched a $13.9bn bid to take Keurig Green Mountain private, in its biggest challenge yet to Nestlé’s lead in the consumer coffee market....
...It can cost $10m to build a network of microwave towers to beam data across the Appalachian mountains, says a consultant....
...“An entire snow scene complete with pines and ski lift could not conceal the banality of a tartan-meets-sheepskin ‘Rocky Mountain High collection’,” ran the FT verdict on last season’s catwalk show....
...-based Permira Advisers , Italian private-equity fund Clessidra, Italian fund FSI, Qatar Holding LL and French buyout firm Ardian…” (WSJ) “India’s Gland Pharma said on Thursday U.S. private equity firm...
...The News Corp chairman filed for divorce last month and the press is now kept at a distance, but otherwise Sun Valley’s rituals are little changed as Herb Allen’s guests regroup near Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains...
...Mr Malone, Liberty’s chairman and America’s largest landowner, owns much of the land between the statue and the Rocky Mountains in the distance....
...The all-cash offer from MidAmerican Holdings, a Berkshire subsidiary that provides power in the midwest and Rocky Mountain regions, values NV at $10bn, including debt.”...
...It can access finance so easily and cheaply that it sometimes opts to use debt instead of its mountain of gas revenues for investments, another person familiar with the fund said....
...The deal continues to saddle BAA with a mountain of borrowings – its net debt stood at £11.6bn at June 30....
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