Hints and tips:
...Carrefour is locked in a legal battle with Chinese conglomerate Suning over payment for a deal to acquire the French retailer’s stores in China, which are in crisis after the pandemic gutted the business...
...Wanda Austin has been nominated to join the Apple board. She is the former chief executive of the Aerospace Corporation....
...But the battle for the hearts and minds of football clubs isn’t over yet....
...The house style remains sacred: headachy green-screen, grunting battles, knowing quips. “We’ll get you back on the lunchbox,” a sweet-talking Strange tells Wanda. It all comes back to merch....
...It made its investment in Legendary on a preferred basis, giving it seniority to equity holder Dalian Wanda, a foundering Chinese conglomerate that overpaid for the outfit, spending $3.5bn in 2016....
...We see Wanda Wulz growing whiskers and fur, metamorphosing into a cat....
...DNEG worked on The Eight Hundred, a Chinese production about the Battle of Shanghai that was the world’s highest grossing movie of 2020. It was the first Chinese movie shot entirely on Imax cameras....
...He intended to do what he could to lobby those present aggressively, bringing the confidence of his 2015 battle with the business regulator to the campaign....
...Japan’s prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last week it would be “difficult to hold” the event unless “the world has won its battle against the coronavirus pandemic”....
...Cinema operator AMC Entertainment raised $500m of fresh cash from bond investors on Friday, as it battles to stay afloat amid an almost total shutdown of its business because of the coronavirus....
...But the board said on Sunday it had agreed to end that dispute, in order to “eliminate the risk of a costly and time-consuming legal battle”....
...That same year, Wu was involved in a bitter battle with Marriott to buy Starwood Hotels, at one point offering $14bn for the chain only to abruptly withdraw the bid without explanation days later....
...“To concede a penalty after 30 seconds, that completely changed our plans and had a massive impact,” said Mauricio Pochettino, Tottenham Hotspur manager, after the match played at the Wanda Metropolitano...
...On the other is Infront, a Swiss-based marketing agency, owned by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda and run by Philippe Blatter, nephew of former Fifa president Sepp Blatter....
...Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired Wanda Woo as a partner in the law firm’s corporate and securities practice in Hong Kong. Woo was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis....
...The Ratners, who hold about 10 per cent of the shares of Forest City, have an uphill battle....
...The company’s role in a complex boardroom battle for control of China Vanke, now the country’s fourth-largest developer, was a case in point....
...Fosun marches on While China’s HNA, Wanda and Anbang are out of the acquisition game, Fosun’s appetite for deals (especially in France) isn’t abating....
...In the tussle over junk bond covenants, the battle lines are drawn....
...Since then, three of those groups — Anbang, HNA and Wanda — have started unloading billions of US dollars in overseas assets at a rapid pace....
...The better year has defied Wall Street forecasts, padding the earnings of the world’s largest media companies such as Disney and Fox, and lifting the stock price of Wanda-owned AMC, the biggest US movie...
...The recent rush of asset sales by major Chinese corporates such as HNA and Dalian Wanda is another clear sign of the new discipline being imposed....
...Both Fosun and Wanda have also borrowed internationally....
...It’s different from Wanda, which borrows from banks onshore to invest offshore....
...Mr Thohir, who remains Inter Milan’s president, faces an uphill battle in his new role....
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