Sentences with phrase «stake in vice»

A former joint owner of Debenhams is among the investment firms in talks to buy a $ 500m stake in Vice, Sky News learns.

In August, A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Disney and Hearst Corporation, took a 10 % stake in Vice Media for $ 250m, valuing the business at $ 2.5 bn.

Lastly, Freston said Dauman was ill - advised to sell an ownership stake in Vice back to Shane Smith.

A&E Networks is buying a 10 % stake in Vice Media for $ 250 million, the Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Other investors include Silicon Valley fund Technology Crossover Ventures, which invested $ 250 million in 2014 for a 10 % stake, and 21st Century Fox, which in 2013 bought what was then a 5 % stake in Vice for $ 70 million (it now owns about 3 %).

The deal also reportedly boosts Vice's valuation to $ 5.7 billion, according to multiple reports, though the companies did not disclose the size of TPG's minority stake in Vice.

Not exact matches

Last year, Vice took a majority stake in U.K. production studio Pulse Films and the company said earlier this year that Viceland had ordered six episodes of a scripted comedy series from actor James Van Der Beek and musician / DJ Diplo, called What Would Diplo Do?

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Sky News says one of the funders that is considering a $ 500 million investment in Vice is TPG Capital, an investment fund based in the U.S. with $ 70 billion under management that owns stakes in Airbnb and J. Crew, among other things.

Bren held a 34 % stake in the company and served as the vice chairman before buying out five stockholders, which increased his stake in the company to 86 %.

The disclosure reveals more than was previously known about his ties to Cambridge Analytica, where he was vice president of the board: He had a stake in the company that he valued at $ 1 million to $ 5 million, which he plans to sell.

That's right: As TV networks and media buyers get ready to begin the high - stakes upfront negotiations for ad time in just the 2015 - 16 TV season, Vice says it has already «effectively» locked in deals for all its commercial time for three seasons.

HBO's parent company, Time Warner, had talks with Vice last year about buying a stake in the company.

Mr. Ackman, whose firm has a 9.0 % stake in Valeant, will join Pershing Square's Vice Chairman, Stephen Fraidin, on the board.

A US private equity group which owns a stake in Airbnb is in talks about buying a shareholding in Vice Media, the millennials - focused news and entertainment group, that would value it at about $ 5.25 bn (# 4.1 bn)

It was unclear which of TPG's platforms was leading the talks with Vice, although one industry observer suggested that it was likely to be TPG Growth, a vehicle used to hold its stakes in technology companies like Airbnb and Box.

Bannon, who divested his stake in April, was also a vice president at the company from 2014 to 2016 and received a monthly consulting fee until 2016.

It would be named Cambridge Analytica (a name reportedly provided by Bannon, who would also have a stake in the company and serve as a vice president).

With all the important issues at stake in the presidential and vice presidential debates, it takes a small and pettifogging disposition to be concerned with a matter of fairness.

Reid's stake in Clark County NV provided the desert traveler with many a vice.

The attorneys challenged both the statements and the motives of Charles Dorego, executive vice president and general counsel to luxury developer Glenwood Management, about why he helped secure the Skelos scion work at a wastewater treatment start - up firm he and Glenwood's founder owned large stakes in and got the 33 - year - old large payments for selling title insurance for the real estate giant's properties.

Anderson deals with the resemblances head - on — the routine involving the kidnapped tycoon's wife is like a hyper - alert variant on the Lebowski method — but, as in that initial languid, multifaceted exchange between Doc and Shasta, Inherent Vice's emotional stakes are far higher and the snark quotient lower.

The process began for the contestants in the spring, when applications were collected from more than 100 eager industry members under age 40, each a leading executive such as president, CEO, COO, or vice president with ownership stake in their companies.

On the Monday after the weekend when Amazon and Macmillan faced off in a dramatic battle over eBook pricing, I turned to James McQuivey, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, for his perspective on who won, what the stakes are, and what might lie ahead.

Despite coming out only one year after the massive debut of Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City raised the stakes in so many ways.

Benita Dodd, vice president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization, told The Daily Signal in an email that the state's 6th District race was largely civil despite what many partisans saw as high stakes.

Over the past 10 years Rozee, who is senior vice president commercial and legal affairs at Teck Resources, has been involved in a number of large transactions, including the company's $ 14.8 - billion purchase of the Fording River coal mine and its $ 825 - million sale of its stake in the Waneta hydro - electric dam.

«This is a critical time for health care, and women have much at stake in the debate,» said PPFA Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy Laurie Rubiner.

«What's at stake, if Congress doesn't reauthorize this program, is the very good thing they started in 2009 could start to unravel,» said Karen Howard, vice president of early childhood policy, for First Focus and a co-convener of the Home Visiting Coalition, which includes around 50 organizations.