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Baillie Gifford Can't Dine Out on Tesla Forever

Baillie Gifford Can't Dine Out on Tesla Forever

When US hedge fund Saba Capital Management launched its attack on the UK investment trust industry, one firm got particularly savage treatment:...

24.01.2025 70

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Mario Draghi Wanted Big European M&A. Here It Is.

Mario Draghi Wanted Big European M&A. Here It Is.

Does America always have to be home to the global leaders in every industry? Former Italian premier Mario Draghi has been calling for Europe to take a...

17.01.2025 9

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Hindenburg Research Exit Shows It's No Market for Old Shorts

A little more than a year after legendary Enron short-seller Jim Chanos threw in the towel on activist short selling, the equally famous Hindenburg...

17.01.2025 30

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

London Is No Place for Equities Bargain Hunters

The recent selloff in gilts and sterling has left some sectors of the UK stock market trading at levels last seen in 2023, reinforcing the perception...

16.01.2025 20

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

A US Hedge Fund Put UK Trusts on Notice. Good.

A US Hedge Fund Put UK Trusts on Notice. Good.

US hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein is taking brickbats for highlighting the flaws of the UK’s sleepy investment-trust industry and attempting to...

14.01.2025 8

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

The UK No Longer Offers Easy Money for Buyout Bidders

There is little sign that the rot in the UK stock market is stopping. Companies have continued to succumb to takeovers by private equity funds and...

04.01.2025 10

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Blackstone Deal Shows Funds Wooing Insurers Still Works

If these are good times for mergers and acquisitions bankers, they’re great for those whose Rolodex is stuffed with contacts in asset management...

13.12.2024 7

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Hershey Takeover Is Worth the Risk for Oreo-Maker Mondelez

An acquisition of Hershey Co. would mark the pinnacle of confectionary deal making. It would also be one of the sector’s most challenging takeovers...

11.12.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

A $31 Billion Ad Deal Shows the Mad Men Are Scared

Big deals are risky in most industries but especially in advertising — that’s why it’s so rare to see the so-called Mad Men give them a go. But...

10.12.2024 4

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

BlackRock Pays $12 Billion to Catch Up in Private Credit

The trend is your friend. Or, in Larry Fink’s case, your primary acquisition tickbox. The chief executive officer of asset management giant...

03.12.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Vincent Bolloré Risks Pyrrhic Victory on Vivendi Breakup

Vivendi SE’s plan to split into four companies is going badly. The media conglomerate’s separation has become a bitter battle, and hopes that it...

03.12.2024 40

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

7-Eleven Needs More Than a Name Change to Stop $47 Billion Takeover

The company behind 7-Eleven will at last be called “7-Eleven.” That was one notable feature of the unofficial defense strategy outlined by...

10.10.2024 2

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Billionaire Drahi's Cunning Gets Clearer Daily

Patrick Drahi caused outrage in March when he suggested the creditors owed nearly €25 billion ($27 billion) by his French telecoms empire should...

08.10.2024 2

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Adnoc Denies Hedge Funds the Neat German M&A Trade With Covestro Bid

The first question at the beginning of any German takeover is what the ending looks like. Buying a Frankfurt-listed company is typically a tortuous...

01.10.2024 4

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

BC Partners Gives Buyout Firm Self-Dealing a Boost

Rarely has a transaction had such high stakes as BC Partners’ forthcoming €4.5 billion ($5 billion) initial public offering of Springer Nature....

01.10.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Murdoch’s Bid Still on the Wrong Side of Rightmove

Rupert Murdoch has so far made it easy for Rightmove Plc to resist his takeover bid. Three weak overtures have put little pressure on the UK real...

26.09.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Silicon Valley’s MAGA Moment

Trump’s backers in tech see him as a fellow victim of the state and a shield they need to escape accountability.

25.09.2024 9

The New York Times

Chris Hughes

Good Luck to Qualcomm in Getting Intel Inside

There’s opportunism — and there’s Qualcomm Inc.’s approach to buy Intel Corp. The acquisitive semiconductor giant has an opening to attempt...

24.09.2024 10

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

KKR Avoids Messy Divorce in Breakup With Politico Owner

Dividing the assets of a marriage fairly in a divorce is rarely easy. But the carve-up of Politico publisher Axel Springer SE between buyout firm...

19.09.2024 1

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

How 7-Eleven Can Get a Big Price From Circle K

Everyone agrees the takeover battle for the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven is a watershed moment that could prove the Tokyo market is now open to...

18.09.2024 2

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

A $16 Billion Freight Deal Humbles Private Equity

The stock market’s verdict is hard to ignore. Danish logistics firm DSV A/S gained 10%, or $4 billion, in value this week as it closed in on a...

13.09.2024 1

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Canary Wharf Bondholders Need Nerves of Steel

The view from Canary Wharf is brighter than it was in January. But the east London financial and leisure district still has a big problem. Its £4...

09.09.2024 8

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Suing Redstone Over Paramount Mess Just Got Harder

For a brief moment, Paramount Global shareholders enjoyed the possibility that Edgar Bronfman would usurp the fiddly merger agreed with producer...

27.08.2024 2

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Bronfman’s Paramount Bid Fails to Top Ellison’s

Market forces have done their job. An alternative to David Ellison’s takeover bid for Hollywood studio Paramount Global has finally surfaced. The...

20.08.2024 2

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Couche-Tard’s 7-Eleven Bid Is Neatly Opportunistic

Barely weeks after the Japanese stock market’s stunning roller-coaster ride, here comes a hugely ambitious takeover approach for a target whose...

19.08.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

The S&P Always Looks Good Next to European Stocks

When markets gyrated at the turn of the month, US and Japanese stocks had the cushion of an earlier surge to fall back on. In Europe, the rout hit...

08.08.2024 4

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

KKR’s $1.7 Billion PR Deal Could Be Easy to Mess Up

It won’t use up much of KKR & Co.’s pile of dry powder. But Wednesday’s deal to take control of public-relations firm FGS Global will certainly...

07.08.2024 1

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

This $25 Billion Private Equity Target Is a Puzzle

What do they see that everyone else has missed? First activist investor Nelson Peltz took a stake in UK pest-control business Rentokil Initial Plc,...

30.07.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Jamie Dimon’s Crack at Shadowy Proxy Firms Is Resonating

Pressure is again mounting on the proxy advisory firms that recommend how investors should vote on executive pay and other corporate matters....

25.07.2024 3

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes

Who Dares Push the Ellisons to Pay More for Paramount?

The saga around the future of Paramount Global has gone on too long. Shareholders may nevertheless hope that there’s one last twist in the script....

11.07.2024 6

Bloomberg

Chris Hughes