Football financier Keith Harris is leading a bid to buy a 45% stake in Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a deal that could be worth nearly £200m. Sky News has learned that Mr Harris is advising a group of businessmen including Zakaria Janjua and Nafshir Jaffer on a bid for shareholding in Eagle … Read more
The corporate raider Carl Icahn might be on a new streak as of today, his 88th birthday. JetBlue Airways announced on Friday that it had struck a deal to grant seats on the company’s board of directors to two representatives from Icahn’s companies. The lightning-fast JetBlue settlement came just days after utility company American Electric … Read more
Misery loves company and after facing steep stock price declines of more than 50% each, activist investor Carl Icahn and JetBlue might need each other right now. Icahn Enterprises disclosed a 9.9% ownership stake in airline JetBlue today, Icahn’s first foray back onto the dance floor after promising that the firm would “stick to our … Read more