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...A year later, Broadcom paid $10.7bn for Symantec’s enterprise security business....
...Endeavor’s shares jumped by almost 25 per cent after it announced the strategic review, giving it an enterprise value of about $14bn....
...(The FT has reported before about the Twitter board being sued a few years back for settling quickly with Elliott, a deal that included a convertible bond offering to private equity group Silver Lake that...
...For this reason, Silver Lake may ultimately decide to sell some of the company’s assets, he said....
...VMWare’s existing owners Michael Dell and US technology private equity group Silver Lake stand to get billions in cash from its close....
...On Monday, the Pittsburgh icon US Steel announced it had reached a deal to sell itself to Japan’s Nippon Steel at a total enterprise value of $15bn....
...In Nasdaq’s anti-financial crime division, we have built data lakes that bring together normalised and anonymised transaction data from more than 2,400 banks....
...Previously owned by Dell and Silver Lake, Dell Technologies listed at an enterprise value of about $100bn....
...On Monday, Greenhill announced that its 27-year run as an independent firm is nearing an end as it prepares to sell to Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group at a $550mn total enterprise valuation....
...“The way Michael Dell and Silver Lake are good at financial engineering, Broadcom is as well,” said Chalfin. “VMware is an ideal currency.”...
...Presenting more of an ethical dilemma and logistical challenge are the more than 30,000 staff they employ in the country, who face unemployment or absorption into another — probably state-run — enterprise...
...The news came after Twitter’s annual meeting, where a shareholder vote against the re-election of Silver Lake co-chief executive Egon Durban saw him tender his resignation from the board. 2....
...Dell and Silver Lake’s gargantuan return on the takeover indicated Dimon made the right call....
...These days, Dell defines itself as a diversified technology vendor specialising in dull but well-entrenched enterprise software....
...(Owen Walker) Quick Fire Q&A Every fortnight we ask a fast-growing fintech to introduce themselves and explain what makes them stand out in a crowded industry....
...national security to block China buying local builder (FT) Steris to buy Cantel Medical in $3.6bn deal (Wall Street Journal) German carmakers outpace Tesla with electrified vehicle surge (FT) Silver Lake...
...Dell’s near-$50bn of net debt bulks up its enterprise value....
...The US buyout group Silver Lake and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC bought the company for $2.6bn in 2016....
...The Texas-based company returned to the stock market in 2018, five years after it was taken private by Mr Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake....
...“We have one mandate — to conserve cash, survive, and use this time to reconstruct a stronger enterprise,” said Barry Diller, Expedia’s chairman....
...Another, the Cospearl Lake — a 2m barrel capacity supertanker — is currently hauling a full cargo of US crude oil to South Korea, having left the same loading facility in Galveston earlier this week....
...The security software vendor spent $7bn on acquisitions in 2016, buying enterprise security company Blue Coat Systems and LifeLock, which protects against identity theft....
...Mr Dell’s hardware, software and services play is a familiar construct in the enterprise technology business....
...For critics of the initial tracking-stock deal — like Icahn — Dell and Silver Lake have engineered a slick solution....
...Al Walker, Anadarko’s chief executive, worked with Mr Trauber when the two were at UBS. Mr Trauber would go on to seal Anadarko’s largest takeover: its $18bn purchase of Kerr-McGee in 2006....
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