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...And CEO of Channel 4 Alex Mahon, for one, is delighted: “When I go to Ibiza, I plan to be stacking my calendar full of acupuncture and vitamin drips.”...
...that time, I don’t think the major studios can still be as powerful in the Chinese market,” forecasts Shawn Xiang Yue, who produced the Detective Chinatown films, a popular slapstick comedy franchise by Wanda...
...After the market crashed, Chinese investors entered, with giants such as Tencent, Alibaba and Dalian Wanda pouring in cash. But now Chinese money has dried up....
...Earlier this year, 60,739 fans packed into Atlético Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium to watch the home team lose 2-0 to rivals Barcelona....
...The last thing I bought and loved was my 1993 Land Rover Defender 110, which I’m about to joyfully restore with Alex Reinwald, king of Defenders. alexanderreinwald.com. landrover.com....
...Rachel Sanderson reports from Milan on what the death of fashion matriarch Wanda Ferragamo signifies....
...“Some investors are intelligent and have business plans,” says Alex Jarvis of Blackbridge Cross Borders, one of several investment advisory companies trying to profit from the Chinese football M&A boom....
...“They’ve brought the offshore entities into the regulatory framework,” said Z Alex Zhang, head of China mergers and acquisitions in Shanghai White & Case, a law firm....
...Wanda in particular has been fast to act to address its leverage problem....
...Alex Wessendorff, former communications manager at Apax, the European private equity group, abruptly left his post in May after close to two years in the position....
...One can't help but wonder how many other aggressive Chinese acquirers — companies like HNA Group, Fosun, Anbang, and Wanda — will face similar problems down the road....
...Within a two-week period earlier this year, Jiangsu Suning Football Club acquired Chelsea’s Brazilian midfielder Ramires for €28m ($32m) and Brazil’s Alex Teixeira from Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk for €50m...
...Record signing Alex Teixeira, a 26-year-old Brazilian midfielder, joined Jiangsu Suning from Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk for $55m in February....
...Stenbeck, who married British millionaire Alex Fitzgibbons last year, avoids interviews....
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