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...knowledge of the merger....
...Thomson had no comment beyond News Corp’s announcement that it was exploring a merger with Fox....
...When Paramount was created by reunifying CBS and Viacom four years ago, the combined company generated $6bn in operating profits....
...for control of the Paramount studio in 1994 and moving into television with acquisitions of Viacom and CBS....
...Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, is unconvinced by an $11bn offer from Apollo for its Hollywood studio, people briefed on the matter said, and is instead negotiating a rival deal with...
...Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News....
...Buyout firms are shaving tens of millions of dollars off interest costs by refinancing debts racked up in private credit markets with publicly traded bonds and loans, delivering a windfall for the Wall Street...
...(His successor at HKEX, Nicolas Aguzin, is also a former JPMorgan banker). Li made his name with ambitious dealmaking, including the £1.4bn acquisition of the London Metal Exchange in 2012....
...A spat also broke out with former Body Shop employees over money they allege they are owed by its new owner. Earlier this week, administrators were called in for the group’s UK arm....
...Buffett’s anointed successor, vice-chair Greg Abel, was charged with overseeing the negotiations and ultimate settlement, according to people briefed on the matter....
...He spent 18 months in jail until he was approved for parole by Park’s left-wing successor Moon Jae-in in 2021....
...The merger with its New York rival hasn’t satisfied the law firm’s appetite for M&A....
...Redstone spent the twilight years of his long life feuding over control of Viacom and CBS as lurid details of his personal life and sexual affairs emerged in the press....
...BT Group chief executive Philip Jansen is preparing to step down next year, prompting the telecoms company to begin a search for his successor, according to two people familiar with the matter....
...The recent listing of Singapore-based tech group Grab, which completed the largest-ever merger with a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) at the start of December, has also helped draw renewed attention...
...Buying Twitter There’s a lot of detail about how Musk fell into the twit-hole by confusing engagement with adulation, celebrity with fame and memes with wit....
...Launched in 2006, it is the successor to two now-defunct rival minor broadcast networks, the WB and UPN, which competed for young audiences with programming such as Dawson’s Creek and America’s Next Top...
...Whether or not it was his first choice, the merger plan rings eerily similar to the reunification of media conglomerates CBS and Viacom, worth $13bn today — less than half of the value of the separate groups...
...The FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson reviews Paddy Manning’s book The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch....
...lead the publisher on an interim basis while a permanent successor is chosen....
...Italy is in exclusive talks to sell a controlling stake in ITA Airways, the successor company to bankrupt Alitalia, to Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and US private equity firm Certares....
...Chief operating officer Yaron Shohat has been tasked with overseeing a reorganisation of the company ahead of naming a successor....
...The anointment of Greg Abel as Buffett’s successor has also stoked expectations of more energy investment, as he rose through Berkshire’s energy unit and worked on some of the company’s bigger deals in the...
...“I could make a deal with anybody and it doesn’t get all messed up with process.” Greg Abel, the billionaire investor’s anointed successor, won’t be afforded the same luxury....
...The number of public exits — whether by initial public offering or Spac merger — was down 45 per cent....
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