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Your Buyer Is Researching You: The Communications Side Of Acquisitions
Valerie Chan is the Founder and Principal of Plat4orm, a strategic communications agency. Most CEOs preparing a company for acquisition know what they need to get the deal they want: clean financials, defensible forecasts, strong margins, customer…
How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business
Bluesky No, Frodo did not throw the ring into Mt. Doom in time. Ethan Hunt did not get to the top of the Eiffel Tower to defuse the bomb. A lone X-Wing Fighter did not blow up the Death Star. This is all to say that, despite the best efforts of the…
How to know when an acquisition fits - by LaundryHeap's CEO
News from the City, market updates plus comment and analysis from our business desk I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Acquisitions have been integral to Laundryheap's growth…
Latham guides on entertainment powerhouse acquisition
The acquisition brings together two of the world's best-known media and entertainment companies under one brand. Global law firm Latham & Watkins has advised Skydance (formerly Paramount) on its completed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery…
Uniqlo on track to overtake H&M, eyes Zara for global No. 1
Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co.'s annual revenue climbed 17% to a record ¥3.96 trillion ($25 billion), putting it solidly on a path to pull ahead of H&M as the world's No. 2 apparel retailer and challenge Zara for the top spot. The sales…
Paramount-Warner Bros. merger survives opposition
Norm Eisen's Democracy Defenders Action and Democracy Defenders Fund have poured money into the effort. Eisen claims that his groups were “proud to help build” the campaign, which became the principal opponent to the merger. Eisen was…
Man charged with murder over fatal A1(M) crash
A man has been charged with murder following a fatal collision on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire. A 22-year-old woman, from Newcastle, died when a silver Ford Transit and a silver Volkswagen Golf collided on the southbound carriageway on Sunday, in…
VodafoneThree to slash £1bn in costs after mega merger deal
Mobile phone giant VodafoneThree has announced plans to scale up its UK cost-cutting target to £1 billion annually by 2032, continuing to extract efficiencies in the wake of last year's landmark merger. The operator, which was formed in 2025…
Is my HBO safe? What the Paramount-WBD merger means for the future of CNN, movies, and more.
What's going to happen to all my favorite TV shows and movies? Paramount has joined forces with Warner Bros. Discovery, prompting questions about what the mega-deal means for the likes of HBO and CNN. Skydance, David Ellison's new entertainment…
New Lidl £5 trousers similar to £189 M&S and £45 Next out Sunday
Lidl is set to expand its supermarket fashion lineup next week with a new range of Esmara autumn clothing. The supermarket launches new Special Buy deals every Thursday and Sunday, and it has now shared a glimpse with viewers of what will be coming…
Laser Clinics Australia founder says KKR-owned empire cannot survive
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
The spiky dilution clauses driving Firmus IPO talks behind the scenes
No wonder it was radio silence out of Firmus Technologies on Thursday. The pressure is on the neocloud's co-founders Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield to get a float away, stopping their big-ticket strategic backers from cornering a bigger slice of…
Firmus pricing talks slide towards $8; bankers scramble to revive IPO
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
Firmus pulls down deal docs as bankers try shrinking $7.9b IPO
Firmus Technologies' initial public offering documents have been pulled down from a virtual data room provided to fund managers, as its bankers try to save the second-largest float in Australia's history from hitting the wall. A heavily watermarked…
PEP jumps onboard Skip Capital, Grok Ventures-backed Energy Bay
Pacific Equity Partners is joining Energy Bay's illustrious roster of shareholders, which counts the family offices of both Atlassian founders among its backers, buying a 30 per cent stake in the renewables business. PEP will acquire the stake…
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