Are private equity firms the new conglomerates?
Plus, THG tries to win back shareholder confidence and a group of America’s most elite universities get $40bn richer
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Partners Group hires ex-CEO of Kindred Healthcare; will fundraising finally slow down?
Partners Group will announce today it is hiring Ben Breier, former CEO of Kindred Healthcare, who led the $1.4 billion sale of the healthcare provider to health insurer
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In Twitter Meeting, Elon Musk Fields Questions From 8,000 Employees
Mr. Musk answered questions from Twitter’s 8,000 workers for the first time in a virtual meeting on Thursday.
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Sen. Warren asks bank regulator to reject TD’s $13.4 billion acquisition after customer-abuse report
In a letter sent Tuesday to the OCC, Warren cited a May 4 report that alleged that TD used tactics similar to those in the Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal. Source: Sen. Warren asks bank regulator...
BREAKING: Facebook Mostly Loses Giphy Merger Appeal, But Case In Limbo
The U.K.'s specialist antitrust tribunal on Tuesday largely rejected Facebook's challenge to a decision blocking its $315 million acquisition of GIPHY, but agreed that Britain's competition watchdog...
Elon Musk said set to address Twitter employees for first time this week
Musk originally agreed to purchase TWTR for $54.20 per share, though he has been complaining for weeks that the social media company may be be misstating the number of spam accounts that it...
FSN-backed OptiGroup agrees to purchase MaskeGruppen
With the investment, OptiGroup expects to conduct strategic add-on acquisitions.
Source: FSN-backed OptiGroup agrees to purchase MaskeGruppen
Schwarzman outlines Blackstone’s ‘innovation machine;’ THL’s Josh Nelson discusses ‘valuation correction’
Happy Fri-yay dealmakers! Aaron here on the Wire. I don’t know about you, but it sure seemed like things picked up this week, and I am all for it! As the old cliché goes, “news never sleeps.”...
Hollywood’s Investment Boom Continues With Deal for Spanish-Language Producer
Foreign suitors for Credit Suisse face high hurdles
Switzerland’s typically liberal M&A market might make an exception for such a national institution
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