Thursday, 29 July 2021 7:55 pmYou would think bidding for supermarket giant WM Morrison would be enough to keep the uber Wall Street dealmakers at Apollo occupied for a few months.
Wednesday, 07 July 2021 8:01 amI see my former boss and colleague Alistair "Acerbic" Osborne is today in The Times talking up the prospects of a potential takeover bid for J Sainsbury following the private equity bid battle for rival WM Morrison.
Monday, 05 July 2021 8:39 amIt appears The Sunday Telegraph was bang on the money with it's weekend line about Apollo Global Management coming in for WM Morrison.
Saturday, 03 July 2021 8:54 amWM Morrison's has just agreed to a £6.3 billion counter offer from a consortium comprising the billionaire Koch family and Softbank's Fortress.
Thursday, 24 June 2021 8:40 pmThere is something curious going on in the London market with the string of private equity bids for London-listed companies.
Monday, 21 June 2021 11:06 amCommentators, journalists and analysts were out in force this morning adding their two pennies worth to the weekend's most exciting corporate news event, airing all sorts of (potentially wild) speculation about rival offerors for WM Morrison.
Saturday, 19 June 2021 3:59 pmHat tip to Mark, the "Kleinmanator", Kleinman, who has just landed a corking scoop about Clayton Dubilier & Rice approaching WM Morrison about a £5 billion buy-out.
Thursday, 21 February 2019 9:59 pmI see former colleague, Simon Duke, is being rather mean to NM Rothschild banker Majid Ishaq in today's business diary in The Times.
Thursday, 15 November 2018 9:45 amThe answer is: a corporate broker (an English concept whereby a company retains an investment bank to be its "interface" with the stock market).