Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Sony and Apollo’s Plan for Paramount: Break It Up
Shari Redstone helped build Paramount Global into a media empire, but if Sony Pictures Entertainment and the private-equity giant Apollo Global Management succeed in acquiring ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Would Paramount Bidders Break It Up?
Splitting the Paramount empire Ever since Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management expressed interest in buying Paramount Global, a big question has loomed over ...
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Financier Found Guilty in Trump Media Insider Trading Trial
A federal jury in Manhattan on Thursday convicted a financial executive on securities fraud charges arising from a multimillion-dollar insider trading scheme that involved the ...
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32 Due Diligence Red Flags
Certain Risks May Impact the Decision to Proceed with the TransactionBy M&A Leadership Council During an M&A due diligence process, certain red flags might ...
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Opinion | Campus Protesters Are Demanding Colleges Divest From Israel. That Is Intellectually Impossible.
“Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” is a frequent chant ringing through pro-Palestinian college protests. Of all the actions one could ...
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Avoiding Value Erosion: Secret #1
Talk Is Cheap: Value Erosion Secret #1By Jack Prouty, Past President, M&A Leadership Council Note: This article was developed in response to several issues raised ...
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TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
Less than two weeks after President Biden signed a bill that will force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular social media app or ...
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Kent State Protesters Call For University to Divest, Echoing Vietnam War Protests
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at Kent State University in Ohio on Saturday to protest the war in Gaza, exactly 54 years after a similar ...
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Sony and Apollo in Talks to Acquire Paramount
Paramount has decided to formally open negotiations with a bidding group led by Sony Pictures Entertainment and the private equity giant Apollo, according to three ...