December 2025 – Page 11 – Finance Updates

SoftBank’s $4B DigitalBridge Buy Signals Major Play in AI Infrastructure

SoftBank is acquiring DigitalBridge for about...

DigitalBridge brings roughly US$108 billion o...

Post-deal, DigitalBridge will remain a separa...

The transaction advances SoftBank’s “physical...

How Metalmark’s 2018 Investment in Avondale Shipyard Transformed Host Group’s Logistics Edge

Americas M&A Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction

Metalmark Capital made a growth equity invest...

Host remains a family-led, majority family-ow...

The Avondale Shipyard is central to Host’s st...

Metalmark’s undisclosed minority stake reflec...

Weinstein & Saba’s Campaign Hits UK Investment Trusts: Demands, Pushback & Stakes

Europe M&A Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Boaz Weinstein’s Saba Capital has amassed lar...

Shareholders across the targeted trusts, led ...

Boards, industry groups, and regulators have ...

The clash spotlights rising retail voting pow...

Silver Market at a Crossroads: Short-Term Risks vs Long-Term Demand Drivers

Global Markets Mining (except Oil and Gas)

Silver has surged about 156% in 2025, with an...

Alexander Campbell warns of short-term headwi...

Despite near-term risks, Campbell remains str...

Societe Generale’s models flag bubble-like pr...

How Private Equity & Litigation Funders Are Reshaping Law Firm Financing

Global Tech Legal Services

Law firms are seeking new capital sources bey...

Alternative Business Structures and Managed S...

Europe and a few U.S. states such as Arizona ...

These financing shifts create opportunities f...

Private Equity’s Turning Point: Dry Powder, Exit Delays & Fundraising Landscape in 2025

Americas M&A Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

US private equity enters 2026 with a large ba...

Dry powder has fallen to about $880 billion w...

Managers are leaning on continuation vehicles...

Success in 2026 will favor PE firms that driv...

China IPO Reform: How New Rules on HK Listings, Nasdaq & Strategic Sectors Are Reshaping Capital Markets

Asia Markets Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Deloitte China reports a strong 2025 IPO rebo...

Hong Kong re-emerged as a top global IPO venu...

Regulatory reforms in the mainland (“New Nine...

Tightening U.S. (especially Nasdaq) listing a...

From Earthquake Survivor to Winter Paralympian: Haiti’s Ralf Etienne’s Journey

Global FYI Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Bank of America investment banker Ralf Etienn...

After losing his leg in the 2010 Haiti earthq...

U.S. immigration policy changes led BofA to m...

Haiti has officially nominated him, but he fa...

Fortunoff’s Fall: How NRDC’s Expansion Fueled Its Second Bankruptcy

Americas Firms Miscellaneous Manufacturing

Fortunoff, a luxury jewelry and home retailer...

The strategy collided with the recession, pro...

A severe liquidity crunch in early 2009, driv...

The case underscores how mistimed, capital-in...

VTB’s $1B SPO Raises Free Float & Cuts State Stake to Just Over 50% at Discount

Europe Markets Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

VTB plans to raise about 84.7 billion roubles...

The SPO is priced at 67 roubles per share, ab...

State ownership will fall to 50% plus one sha...

Strong demand of over 180 billion roubles, sp...