Sentences with phrase «led by the billionaire»

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

The stock has surged 41 % since President Donald Trump's November election, surprising many who predicted the company led by billionaire Elon Musk would suffer under a Republican government averse to supporting clean - energy companies with federal tax subsidies.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Vivendi, led by billionaire Vincent Bollore, insisted that its 24 percent stake in TIM represented a 4 billion - euro ($ 4.95 billion) investment and that it had a vested interest in the success of the phone operator.

It is majority - owned by the Brazilian private - equity firm 3G Capital, led by the billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann.

The Sherwood Foundation, led by the billionaire's daughter Susan A. Buffett, targets social - justice issues in Nebraska.

Baidu is led by billionaire Robin Li who has a net worth of $ 7.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Led by billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, a former Brazilian tennis champion, 3G also worked with Buffett to put together a US$ 23 - billion deal to buy ketchup maker Heinz last year.

Spending millions to revitalize a struggling portion of the city might seem like a good bet, but the current effort led by a billionaire CEO is facing major challenges.

Continental Resources Inc, led by billionaire wildcatter Harold Hamm, is prepared to increase capital spending if U.S. crude reaches the low - to mid - $ 40s range, allowing it to boost 2017 production by more than 10 percent, chief financial official John Hart said last week.

Led by billionaire Chief Executive Officer Ivan Glasenberg, Glencore is now the world's fourth - largest mining company following the Xstrata takeover.

The besieged company, founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, will be bought after all by an investment team led by billionaire Ron Burkle and Maria Contreras - Sweet, the former head of President Obama's Small Business Administration, they announced late yesterday.

UPDATED, 5:22 p.m., Feb. 28: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that developers Jeshayahu «Shaya» Boymelgreen and Africa Israel Investments Ltd., led by billionaire Lev Leviev, have been temporarily banned by a Manhattan Supreme Court order from transacting any coop and condo sales.

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

As I detail in my book Hoosier School Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public schools.

Remember, the parent is led by billionaire real estate guru K. Rai Sahi.

Since 1972, the company has been part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the conglomerate led by billionaire Warren Buffett.

In recent years, the left, lead by billionaire Tom Steyer, has begun to copy the strategies pioneered by Charles Koch and other movement conservatives, investing millions in castigating Right - wing politicians as know - nothing climate - deniers.

SolarCity, a Californian solar leasing company led by billionaire clean tech developer Elon Musk, expects home battery storage to become commercially «viable» in the US within the next 10 years.

Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate led by billionaire Warren Buffett, today said it plans to enter the Indian non-life insurance sector as a corporate agent of leading player Bajaj Allianz General.

The Indian Conglomerate, AV birla group led by the billionaire Kumarmangalam Birla, is ready and scouting for a partner to enter the higly lucrative IRead More

The AV birla group led by the billionaire Kumarmangalam birla, shall hold 74 % stake in this partnership if expectations were to be believed.

The Indian Conglomerate, AV birla group led by the billionaire Kumarmangalam Birla, is ready and scouting for a partner to enter the higly lucrative Indian Health Insurance market

Coingeek, the cryptocurrency company led by the billionaire entrepreneur Calvin Ayre, has launched a bitcoin cash tokenization contest offering # 5 million in prize money.

The blockchain company led by the billionaire entrepreneur Calvin Ayre will fund Electron Cash with $ 300,000 USD per year for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) open source projects.

New York - based Cerberus, led by billionaire Steve Feinberg, manages more than $ 30 billion in private equity holdings, distressed debt, other credit assets and real estate.

Not exact matches

• A consortium led by French billionaire Xavier Niel agreed to buy a majority stake in telecommunications company Eir.

Leading the pack is Match.com, owned by IAC / InterActiveCorp, the Internet holding company controlled by billionaire Barry Diller.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

The group led by Stephen Riady's Overseas Union Enterprise threw in the towel after Thailand's TCC Assets, headed by billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, raised its takeover offer for F&N to S$ 9.55 a share last week and bought additional stock in the open market to build its existing F&N holding to more than 40 percent.

Shares of Fraser and Neave (F&N) finished 1.95 percent lower after a group led by a Thai billionaire won the takeover battle for the Singapore drinks and property conglomerate in a deal worth around S$ 13.8 billion ($ 11.24 billion).

The round was led by Softbank's Vision fund and also included investments by tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt.

Leading Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker was called a «liar» and a «fraud» by two rivals as the billionaire businessman's ties to secret offshore shell companies became the focus of the final forum of the campaign Wednesday night.

Sawiris said his view of Saudi Arabia was negatively impacted by a corruption crackdown that led to the arrest of high - profile princes and billionaires in November.

Last fall, as the rest of the league geared up for October baseball, MLB owners unanimously approved the sale of the Miami Marlins to a group led financially by billionaire investor Bruce Sherman, and publicly by former Yankees star Derek Jeter.

Although Monaco recently dropped down to the second tier of French football the club was sold to an investment group led by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.

Things didn't work out for Mourinho either, with the Portuguese manager being dismissed from his post in the Stamford Bridge hot - seat by the club's Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich in December, having led Chelsea to their worst start to a top - flight campaign since the 1960s.

A group of Democratic lawmakers, led by Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, urged regulators to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn used his role as an adviser to the White House to gain unfair trading advantages in the market for renewable fuel credits.

They were led by the holdings of the centenarian billionaire Leonard Litwin ($ 1 million), Connecticut - based developer The Richman Group ($ 314,000), Gary Barnett, with his wife, Ayala, and his company, Extell Development ($ 300,000), Brookfield Financial ($ 253,500) and Cablevision (the owner of MSG, $ 250,000; C.E.O. Charles Dolan and eight members of his family also chipped in $ 121,000).

It was initially funded by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and led by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

The deal, between the Weinstein Co. and a group backed by billionaire Ron Burkle and led by Maria Contreras - Sweet, who was in charge of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama, is said to be worth more than $ 500 million, according to Reuters.

In the Republican race, Joe Lhota, the former MTA chairman, leads billionaire John Catsimatidis by a nearly 2 - 1 margin.

That could lead to a mano - a-mano contest between former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joe Lhota, who is backed by Giuliani, and supermarket billionaire Catsimatidis, who was endorsed by Pataki.

The Politico list of the top political donors in the year 2014 was dominated by liberal billionaires, with Tom Steyer leading the pack.

A slew of polls shows the brash billionaire leading Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Cruz by a substantial margin.

The Time Warner / Siena poll, taken before the Trump hot - mic tape was released, found the bilious billionaire leading Clinton by a 43 - to -38-percent margin in the district.

Opponents of public education — led by a handful of hedge fund and Wall Street billionaires — bought control over the New York State Senate this past election with millions in corrupting campaign cash.

House Speaker Paul Ryan — fresh from celebrating passage of a health care bill in the House that would leave 24 million people uninsured and give a generous tax cut to billionaires — headed to Success Academy I in Harlem on May 9 for a personal guided tour led by Eva Moskowitz.

UPPER EAST SIDE — The candidates vying to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg are striking back against the billionaire mayor's edict that his successor should follow his lead by not living in Gracie Mansion.