Tuesday, 25 September 2018 9:42 amOh look - Comcast has just announced it owns over 30pc of Sky after tapping up shareholders (officially) for stock after the Saturday's shenanigans were finalised.
Saturday, 22 September 2018 12:32 pmThe reason Betaville posits such a question in the headline is that yesterday it was suggested in The Times that Ian Osborne - a former adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron - is trying to buy Fortune magazine from Meridith Corporation via his advisory firm/investment vehicle Connaught, which counts Sir Simon Robey as a director.
Wednesday, 22 August 2018 10:36 pm21st Century Fox is said to have appointed a powerful shareholder solicitation firm amid speculation it is preparing to launch a final "knockout" offer for Sky.
Wednesday, 20 December 2017 7:44 pmCrispin Odey's firm yesterday sold around 192,000 Sky shares, according to Bloomberg data. That's probably not a clever thing to do, say rival hedgies, if your trying to argue 21st Century Fox should make a higher offer, which is what the old buffer was doing on the record earlier this week by handing out quotes to Reuters and the Evening Standard with the argument that FTSE 100-listed Sky should be sold for 12 times cashflow or £12.30 a share (see the links below).
Sunday, 23 April 2017 8:30 pmTucked away in that story is a line about how the Mergermarket Group has struck a deal to sell its life sciences division, Infinata, to London-listed GlobalData for an estimated $20 million.
