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charles johnson Ann Johnson
William D. Cohan June 23, 2024
The only-in-Nantucket saga of billionaire Charles Johnson’s legal battle to put the kibosh on a humble clam shack, which ostensibly threatened the serenity of the Old North Wharf billionaire enclave.
Shari Redstone
William D. Cohan June 19, 2024
Charting the mounting animosities among all the interested parties—Shari, Skydance and RedBird, the special committee, Gabelli—after the endless Paramount saga capsized in an instant.
goldman sachs ceo david solmon
William D. Cohan June 16, 2024
The doubters have dropped away (for now) as David Solomon brings one of Wall Street’s most powerful firms back from its multi-billion dollar consumer banking boondoggle.
Shari Redstone
William D. Cohan June 12, 2024
Deal chatter around Shari Redstone’s shocking, and yet perhaps not entirely unsurprising, decision to kill the Skydance/RedBird acquisition at the thirteenth hour, and forgo billions in order to preserve her place at Sun Valley and table at Dan Tana’s. As one deal observer put it, “It’s why people shouldn’t inherit companies.”


shari redstone
William D. Cohan June 9, 2024
Advice for David Ellison and Gerry Cardinale as they contemplate a last-minute wrinkle in their Paramount deal. Plus, notes on Elon’s comp and the GameStop roller coaster.
shari redstone
William D. Cohan June 5, 2024
Unimaginably, Shari Redstone has reintroduced a dealpoint that threatens to nuke the Paramount sale. Will Gerry and Ellison blink? And will Mario Gabelli, the aggrieved longtime investor, finally wet his beak?
shari redstone
William D. Cohan June 2, 2024
News, notes, ruminations, and tea-leaf decoding regarding the final throes of the Paramount M&A saga.
Sam Bankman-Fried s.b.f.
William D. Cohan May 29, 2024
The crypto convict is on a cross-country prison bus to California, planning his appeal, and claiming Sullivan & Cromwell bartered away his freedom. Does he have a case?


david zaslav
William D. Cohan May 26, 2024
News and notes on the imagined internal monologue of David Zaslav as he contemplates a busy summer agenda: the NBA sitch, the exigencies of the Paramount Global deal, and the $39 billion in debt.
Jon Feltheimer
William D. Cohan May 22, 2024
An only-in-Hollywood story about Lionsgate, the Screaming Eagle SPAC, and “creditor-on-creditor violence.”
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