Mark Kleinman: AA float needs smart pricing to avoid breakdown Business Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly CityAM column Here’s a candidate for toughest IPO mandate in the City: return the venerable AA, the UK’s biggest breakdown recovery service, to the public markets roughly five years after it was taken private for a fraction of [...]
Telegraph bought by US private equity giant Media The Daily Telegraph is poised to be sold to an investment consortium led by a US private equity firm, bringing a likely end to two years of uncertainty over its ownership. Redbird Capital Partners, one half of the vehicle which first bought the broadsheet newspaper from Lloyds bank in 2023, is the lead investor in [...]
Telegraph frontrunner has ‘high confidence’ in bid despite losing backer Media The frontrunner in the race to buy The Telegraph has maintained that his bid for the paper is still on track despite one of his key backers withdrawing its financial support. Dovid Efune, the British owner of the New York Sun, had entered exclusive talks to buy The Telegraph Media Group last month after trumping [...]