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...TKO owns the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Wrestling Entertainment....
...It then advised UFC on its sale to the WME IMG — the predecessor to Endeavor — in 2016....
...The entertainment giant, unable to resist a last jab, said that it had won by a “substantial margin”. Peltz ultimately got about 31 per cent of the total vote....
...Endeavor had already combined its World Wrestling Entertainment and Ultimate Fighting Championship divisions in September into TKO, a new New York-listed company....
...The combination of World Wrestling Entertainment and Ultimate Fighting Championship into TKO, a new New York-listed company controlled by Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor group, is expected to generate more than $1bn...
...of about 13 times CAA’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in its latest financial year — represented a considerable premium to the valuation of Endeavor’s own talent agency, WME...
...WME London is bloody strong, which it wasn’t before,” she says. The live circuit is back up and running: WME’s gig bookings are running at the same level as 2019....
...Formerly co-president of talent agencies WME and IMG, which are part of Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor entertainment group, Francini has been tasked with deepening ties with investors and increasing growth across...
...As he sought to expand Endeavor’s influence through a series of deals, such as buying rival WME for $2.4bn and UFC for $4bn, Endeavor was left saddled with debt just as the pandemic would ravage its business...
...Deltatre will be at the centre of this, driving the sports and entertainment industries forward.”...
...Companies to follow this strategy include US media and entertainment company Endeavor, previously known as WME-IMG, which acquired the Ultimate Fighting Championship for $4bn in 2016 in one of the biggest...
...The Tinseltown super-agent, whose entertainment empire includes talenthouse WME, mixed martial arts franchise UFC, and the Miss Universe pageant, first introduced Durban to Al Mubarak and has been instrumental...
...True, the firm has moved into investing in sports, media and entertainment, including the Ultimate Fighting Championship, talent agency and events group Endeavor (formerly WME) and The Madison Square Garden...
...In early 2013, as Mr Durban was preparing to sign a $24.9bn deal to take the computer maker Dell private, he was also keeping an eye on the Golden Globes award show where WME clients were collecting trophies...
...The media and entertainment group was founded by Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood agent who inspired the Ari Gold character in the HBO series Entourage....
...Endeavor, the entertainment empire that fired the starting gun on an initial public offering on Thursday, is one of the world’s biggest talent agencies, representing top performers from Rihanna to Charlize...
...Endeavor, the entertainment group headed by Ari Emanuel, which owns another agency, WME, has taken that idea even further....
...Silver Lake does not have any football investments but it has other interests in sport and entertainment via its stake in Endeavor, the media group formerly known as WME-IMG....
...Whispers of a West Coast presence for the London-born fair began in earnest in 2016 when the Hollywood sport and entertainment conglomerate Endeavor (then WME-IMG) bought an undisclosed stake in the fair...
...WME-IMG has landed a $1bn investment from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, that values the US entertainment and sports agency at $6.3bn....
...Tate has acquired more than 100 works since 2003 through the Outset Contemporary Art Fund by artists such as Hurvin Anderson and Alice Channer (the entertainment agency WME|IMG now sponsors the Frieze Tate...
...WME-IMG this year struck a partnership with venture firm Sequoia Capital China and Tencent to expand the US sports and entertainment conglomerate’s Chinese business....
...WME-IMG is teaming up with venture firm Sequoia Capital China and internet group Tencent to expand the US sports and entertainment conglomerate’s Chinese business....
...The talent agent has, together with his co-chief executive Patrick Whitesell, turned WME-IMG into a leader in sports, entertainment and marketing, representing stars from Matt Damon to Serena Williams and...
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