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...Vodafone has agreed to sell its Spanish business to UK group Zegona for up to €5bn — the latest iteration of Della Valle’s strategy to focus more on the UK after merging Vodafone’s domestic operation with...
...At the PE conference in Berlin, Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, called on business leaders to help resolve the tensions....
...“I want so to see the Arno,” insists Lucy Honeychurch as she is confronted with the dismal vista at her Florence guesthouse in EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...Morgan Stanley led a $1bn credit facility for Blackstone’s $4.6bn acquisition of Cvent, which is majority owned by Vista Equity Partners....
...Through its majority ownership of Legends, the concessions and hospitality company, Sixth Street has a view into the operations of many of sport and entertainment’s top stadiums and arenas....
...Filings show that Invoke, which has funded several UK tech start-ups since it was founded in 2012, then financed Darktrace’s first two years of operations....
...Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Elliott Management and Robert Smith’s Vista Equity Partners agreed a deal to take Citrix private for $16.5bn, merging it with an existing Vista portfolio company Tibco...
...Guided hikes, of course, and hot outdoor plunge pools....
...Sporting goods company Vista Outdoor is buying golf-simulator maker Foresight Sports in the hope of bringing new players to an old game....
...One thing to start: Elon Musk’s $43bn bid to take Twitter private is struggling to draw interest from institutions with the financial firepower to pull off such a large deal including Blackstone Group, Vista...
...Thoma Bravo’s assets have catapulted above Vista’s....
...A spokesman for Mr Smith and Vista Equity declined to comment....
...He says that for 15 years, half of the carried interest he was entitled to from Vista’s premiere fund was filtered through a Nevis LLC called Flash Holdings, owned via bearer shares by a Belize foundation...
...“What I remember most as a child is being outdoors with my father and brothers,” Mr Bacon told Forbes in a rare interview in 2012....
...Google’s blue building houses the planning operation and exhibition centre, which it has assembled in preparation for a decision — expected within months — by the city’s authorities....
...To the south is a sweeping vista to One World Trade and the Statue of Liberty....
...In a sign of its changeable approach to the sector, Carlyle has opened, closed and reopened a Silicon Valley operation all within the past 10 years....
...Separately, Cabela’s also said it was selling its credit card operation – including its $5.2bn credit card receivables portfolio – to Capital One....
...I think what we want to do with the facility is inspire people on how wonderful and great the outdoors really is.”...
...It also has a catalogue and online operations. In a joint statement, John Morris, founder and chief executive of Bass Pro, pledged to continue expanding Cabela’s brand....
...This comes as companies ranging from Silicon Valley start-ups to multinationals choose to host more of their operations in the cloud....
...Fasting holds forth on friluftsliv, the national ethos of outdoor living. “We have a special bond with nature, a need to engage with it actively.” He flips his steak on the grill plate....
...Artists came in the 1920s, attracted by picturesque vistas and Mediterranean light....
...Platinum Equity and Searchlight, which is teaming up with private equity group GMT, are the last remaining bidders for CBS Outdoor’s overseas operations, according to people with knowledge of the talks....
...In addition to selling off its outdoor operations in Europe and Asia, CBS said it would convert its Americas division into a real estate investment trust....
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