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Ben Glickman

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Writing about M&A and shareholder activism @wsj. Send me tips and whatever you're thinking about: [email protected]. he/him

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Many people make the mistake of assuming bird stories are silly. When in fact they're very serious nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/…

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Two trips to the hospital, 110 hour workweeks and a pizza-party scolding. Over a dozen departures at the junior level since the start of last year. alexander saeedy and I wrote about the working conditions for juniors at Baird industrials. wsj.com/finance/bankin…

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Someone should ask Tom Cruise his thoughts on this executive order because the guy basically never speaks out on even vaguely political issues unless it directly affects The Movies (Trump approval rating 16 points underwater, Tom Cruise +41) wsj.com/business/media…

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Popes named Leo have - started the holy roman empire - overseen the East-West schism in Christianity - excommunicated Martin Luther I'm sure everything will be cool and normal this time tho

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Providence Equity Partners struck a more-than $1 billion deal to acquire a live-event logistics company that has worked on Taylor Swift and Beyoncé’s tours. Ben Glickman with the scoop! wsj.com/business/media…

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Scoop: Salesforce expected to pay $25 per share for Informatica, in a roughly $8 billion deal set to be announced later Tuesday. $crm $infa wsj.com/business/deals…

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ICMYI: We wrote about how, for all the hand wringing about M&A in the last few months, it's looking sort of like an average year. There's a lot of nuance here (lame, I know)! In charts! Ft incredible viz by Alana Pipe wsj.com/business/deals…

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🚨🚨🚨 SCOOP: Shell is holding early-stage talks to acquire rival BP in what would be the largest oil deal in a generation. $shel $bp W/ Ben Dummett and jenny strasburg wsj.com/business/energ…

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SCOOP: Starboard Value has taken an over 9% stake in Tripadvisor, expected to be revealed tomorrow in a filing $TRIP WSJ Banking wsj.com/business/deals…

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SCOOP: A new independent expenditure group named “New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25” is launching a campaign against Zohran Kwame Mamdani, with a plan to raise around $20 million. It comes as some financiers in New York are racing to find a way to take a final months-long

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Some of the city's biggest financiers are scrambling to fund groups that can oppose Democratic nominee for mayor Mamdani. So far, the efforts have been chaotic and scattered. Via Brian Schwartz, Kevin T. Dugan and me wsj.com/politics/polic…

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Jamie: Private credit boom reminds me of the subprime mortgage craze Also Jamie: We should spend $50b on that Great stuff from alexander saeedy wsj.com/finance/bankin…

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NEW: Zohran Mamdani said today that he would “discourage” the phrase “globalize the intifada” in a meeting with business elites today — a step to defuse Wall Street’s suspicions of the mayoral frontrunner wsj.com/us-news/mamdan…

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Exclusive: Union Pacific is in talks to acquire its smaller rival Norfolk Southern in what would be a megamerger in the railroad industry on.wsj.com/3Ukrvpw

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🚨🚨🚨SCOOP: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire the Israeli cybersecurity provider CyberArk Software, in what would mark one of the biggest technology takeovers so far this year. $panw $cybr wsj.com/business/deals…