The Fight Over the World’s Oldest Bank
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the world’s oldest bank. It has survived the rise and fall of the ...
Tag: Acquisitions and Divestitures
Leopold Aschenbrenner Built a Hot A.I. Hedge Fund. Then it Melted Down.
Last year, Leopold Aschenbrenner, a man barely of legal drinking age with a fondness for Rubik’s Cubes, crisscrossed the nation ...
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Sues Over Takeover of Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of freelance journalists that for years owned and operated the annual Golden Globe ...
Why Paramount Paused Its Blockbuster $111 Billion Deal for Warner Bros.
On a call around 9 p.m. on Thursday, Jeffrey Kessler, the top trial lawyer for the media behemoth Paramount, made ...
Sell the Company for $400 Million? He’s Giving It Away Instead.
Back in 1968, Eddie Smith Jr. bought a fledgling boat maker based in Greenville, N.C. It was a risky move. ...
Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months
Paramount said on Friday that it had agreed to halt its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until next June at ...
Judge Extends Pause for Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
A federal judge said on Thursday that Paramount could not close its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery until at least ...
Judge Temporarily Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
A federal judge on Monday temporarily stopped Paramount from completing its $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery while she ...
PayPal Receives $53 Billion Takeover Offer Involving Stripe
The payments company Stripe and the private equity firm Advent International have offered to acquire PayPal for about $53 billion, ...
Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Challenged in Court by California and 11 Other States
A coalition of 12 Democratic states including California, New York and Washington filed a lawsuit Monday to block Paramount’s $111 ...
States Prepare Lawsuit to Block Paramount’s Merger With Warner Bros.
A group of states are preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as soon ...
‘Michael’ Crosses $1 Billion at the Box Office as Lionsgate Roars Back
Not long ago, Lionsgate — the last major independent movie company — seemed headed to Hollywood’s scrap heap.It couldn’t seem ...
Comcast Adds Heft With Sky’s Deal for British Broadcaster ITV
Sky, the British media group owned by Comcast, said on Monday that it was buying the television arm of ITV ...
Chanel Is Buying Charvet, the World’s Oldest Shirt Maker
Chanel has designs on men — if not men’s wear, exactly.The French luxury brand announced on Thursday that it had ...
Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Other Old Internet Brands, Is Going Public
America Online merged with Time Warner in 2001 in a deal worth $165 billion. This year, what remains of AOL ...
Trump Plans to Name Adam Candeub as Antitrust Chief in Justice Dept.
President Trump plans to nominate a tech critic and telecommunications lawyer, Adam Candeub, to lead the antitrust division at the ...
For New Car Brands, the Path to Success Is Littered With Flops
In March, with hundreds of millions of dollars sunk into the project, trial production completed and showrooms already opened, Honda ...
Elon Musk’s Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
SpaceX held the biggest initial public offering of all time, but Wall Street may be expecting something even bigger from ...
Riding High After I.P.O., SpaceX to Buy A.I. Start-Up for $60 Billion
SpaceX said on Tuesday that it would acquire the parent company of Cursor, an artificial intelligence code-writing start-up, for $60 ...
Merger Cleared, David Ellison to Join Trump at U.F.C. Bout
The Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House on Sunday is in some ways a birthday present for President ...
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