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...In today’s newsletter: Kirkland & Ellis confronts a dealmaking slowdown The PE dealmaker who’s everywhere right now KKR jumps on a deal Carlyle snubbed QE+PE= K&E Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis has...
...Rather, the key figure at the time was the “liquidation preference” on the preferred stock of 1.8 times....
...Yet a growing cohort of investors don’t want the liquidation value of their holdings to be set by clattering market machinery....
...It already owned a third of Tribune Publishing, whose titles include the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News....
...Steve Waldman, founder of Report for America, a journalism non-profit modelled after the Peace Corps, proposes raising money for a “deconsolidation fund” that would buy back individual newspapers....
...The deal includes content from The Australian newspaper, the Sydney-based Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne-based Herald Sun as well as regional publications, News Corp said in a statement....
...What’s next for the mysterious hedge fund gobbling up newspapers?...
...That was just one newspaper printing fake news in 1948....
...Sears, now based in suburban Chicago, is the latest casualty in an industry grappling with the rise of ecommerce, and the most high profile since the liquidation of Toys R Us last year....
...Hong Kong-based Skycom Tech was voluntarily wound up by its members in June last year in a liquidation process overseen by international accountancy firm BDO....
...Newspaper publishers have always come from diverse backgrounds....
...But for most of their business lines, Goodall says, “The best strategy for the oil companies is almost certainly gradual self-liquidation.”...
...The Murdochs could bring newspapers back under the same roof as their TV assets, by reuniting Fox and News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers, which was separated from the entertainment...
..., which also include the Chicago Tribune and several local dailies and magazines....
...But I wanted to write,” he told the Vindicator newspaper. Booker’s first job at Baltimore Afro-American in 1942 paid $18 a week....
...The Financial Times and Tronc, the owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, have also been hit....
...The Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday that the DBJ was considering an investment in Toshiba’s Nand flash memory business through a fund jointly run with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp....
...The volatility came after the Asahi newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission planned to present new findings to Japanese prosecutors, alleging that Toshiba’s...
...“Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago,” he tweeted....
...It has been a dark year for newspapers, with advertisers deserting print on both sides of the Atlantic....
...Gannett, the newspaper group that owns USA Today, has terminated takeover discussions with Tronc, the owner of titles such as the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune....
...“The bot still doesn’t know what ‘Chicago’ is, it is just following trend data.”...
...Tribune newspapers....
...Total advertising revenues fell 12.4 per cent in the last quarter at Tribune Publishing, owner of a portfolio of newspapers that includes the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune....
...— a newspaper publisher and an entertainment group....
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