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Richard Beattie, Early Engineer of Private Equity Takeovers, Dies at 86

Reporter USJune 11, 2025

Richard Beattie, a mergers lawyer who helped pioneer private equity takeovers — work that was immortalized in the much-lauded book “Barbarians at the Gate” — and who served in Washington and New York City government, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. His daughter Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen said the cause was […]

Yale’s Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies

Reporter USJune 10, 2025

Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration. The Ivy League school has sought buyers for up to $6 billion in stakes in […]

DoorDash Plans to Buy Deliveroo and SevenRooms

Reporter USMay 6, 2025

DoorDash announced two deals worth billions of dollars on Tuesday, saying it has agreed to acquire Deliveroo, the British food delivery company, and SevenRooms, a platform used by hotels and restaurants to manage reservations and marketing. The acquisitions would enable DoorDash, the dominant food delivery app in the United States, to expand overseas and add […]

DoorDash Agrees to Buy Deliveroo in $3.9 Billion Deal

Reporter USMay 6, 2025

DoorDash said on Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Deliveroo, a British food delivery service, in a roughly $3.9 billion deal, part of its effort to expand overseas. The deal would give DoorDash, the dominant food delivery app in the United States, a larger footprint in Europe and a presence in the Middle East, […]

How Warren Buffett Changed the Way Investors Thought of Investing

Reporter USMay 4, 2025

Warren E. Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple. “Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate. This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Mr. Buffett, now 94, began […]

Thrive Capital Creating Vehicle for Serial M&A

Reporter USApril 29, 2025

Thrive Capital has bet big on artificial intelligence, including emerging giants of the field like OpenAI and Databricks. Now the venture capital firm is taking a different approach: creating and buying companies that it believes can benefit from A.I. — including in industries that seem far more humdrum, such as accounting — and holding on […]

Arthur Fleischer Jr., Veteran Corporate Takeover Lawyer, Dies at 92

Reporter USApril 24, 2025

Arthur Fleischer Jr., an art-loving lawyer who for decades was one of the leading deal makers in corporate mergers, died on March 21 at his home in Manhattan. He was 92. The death was confirmed by his wife, Susan. Over a 65-year career at the firm that became known as Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & […]

Boeing Will Sell Its Digital Businesses for Billion

Boeing Will Sell Its Digital Businesses for $10 Billion

Reporter USApril 22, 2025

Boeing on Tuesday announced that it would sell a handful of navigation, flight planning and other businesses for more than $10.5 billion as the company works to refocus on manufacturing planes and other aircraft. The company, which also wants to reduce its large debt, said it would sell four businesses from a digital unit to […]

The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.

Reporter USApril 15, 2025

The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft was found to have illegally stifled competition in personal computer software. A Federal District Court judge said yes to forcing Microsoft to split in two, separating its monopoly Windows operating system from its […]

What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?

Reporter USApril 14, 2025

In 2012, when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he had lost his marbles. “A billion dollars of money?” joked Jon Stewart, then the host of The Daily Show. “For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures?” Mr. Stewart called the […]

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Richard Beattie, Early Engineer of Private Equity Takeovers, Dies at 86

Yale’s Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies

DoorDash Plans to Buy Deliveroo and SevenRooms

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