How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA
Trump's son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout — Antoine Gara, James Fontanella-Khan …
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin
US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets — Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London
Sources: Thoma Bravo missed out on acquiring Qualtrics, which sold to Silver Lake and CPP for $12.5B in March, due to fears over a US antitrust investigation
Financial Times : Tweets: @antoinegara Tweets: Antoine Gara / @antoinegara : Big scoop from our deal team @EricGPlatt @JFK_America & myself on how Thoma Bravo missed out on the largest U.S. LBO of th...
Blackstone and others are trying to shake up the $40T global corporate bond market with computer-driven quant trading that already reshaped the stock market
Corporate credit has been largely untouched by computer-driven trading, but some investors are trying to change that Tweets: @robinwigg , @antoinegara , and @financialtimes Tweets: Robin Wigglesworth ...
Sources: Thoma Bravo is raising $35B for tech company buyouts; in 2021, the PE firm acquired RealPage for $10.2B and Proofpoint for $12.3B
US-based specialist on a software acquisition binge is raising $35bn for more — The mood was buoyant when private equity executives congregated … Tweets: @antoinegara and @robinwauters Tweets: Antoi...
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others
After years battling Silicon Valley skeptics and Wall Street adversaries, Michael Dell has pulled off the deal of the century … Tweets: @antoinegara , @johnbyrnecso , @antoinegara , @chrishelman , and...
Publicly traded identity management company Okta says it is acquiring Auth0, one of its biggest challengers, in an all-stock deal valued at $6.5B
that's a biggie. https://www.cnbc.com/... #oktasponsor #okta Clueless / @clueless_1337 : Turns out $OKTA bought Auth0 and solidified its lead-in IAM. Guess it's a clear monopoly right now! https://www...
Profile of investor Lee Fixel, the partner behind Tiger Global's investments in Flipkart and Peloton, who says he raised $1.3B for his VC firm Addition
he gave @Forbes a statement — but we spoke to founders he's backed like Eventbrite CEO @juliahartz, Peloton CEO @keylargofoley and Redfin CEO @glennkelman, as well as investors in his fund, to learn h...
A look at Cross River, a bank that is underwriting loans at a rate of $1B+ per month to customers of some popular fintech apps, including Affirm and Upstart
If you want a glimpse of the future of banking, don't look to Silicon Valley or Manhattan's financial district. Tweets: @mdudas , @antoinegara , and @jake_bernstein Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : “The...
Profile of Barry Diller, as he prepares to spin off IAC's 81% stake in Match Group and 84% stake in Angie's List owner ANGI HomeServices, worth a combined $20B
Antoine Gara / Forbes : Tweets: @lsukernik , @ckwitt3 , @modestproposal1 , and @antoinegara Tweets: Larry Sukernik / @lsukernik : “I wasn't a founder of a single company. We were opportunists and I t...