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donald trump
WALL STREET February 21, 2024
Assessing Trump’s path to paying his recently levied $500 million-plus financial penalty.
During the fourth quarter of 2023, Warren Buffett sold 30.4 million shares of Paramount, or about one-third of his stake in the company.
WALL STREET February 18, 2024
The Oracle of Omaha, presumably pissed that his underlings did the Paramount deal in the first place, is cutting his losses and apparently voting with his feet on a sale process run by his old banker, Byron Trott. Plus: Peltz’s defeat.
michael klein
WALL STREET February 14, 2024
The fascinating and shocking but not surprising story of how a generationally talented banker found himself in the Senate’s crosshairs.
adam neumann
WALL STREET February 11, 2024
Does one of the world’s most disgraced entrepreneurs actually want to buy back his old company, or is Adam Neumann’s seemingly fake bid for WeWork just his latest P.R. ruse?


Larry Culp
WALL STREET February 7, 2024
In two months, GE, which Jack Welch once steered to a $650 billion market value, will officially be split into three public companies—the final act of its last C.E.O., Larry Culp. It didn’t have to be this way for America’s formerly most iconic company. This is how we got here.
byron allen
WALL STREET February 4, 2024
News and notes on Byron Allen’s bid and the Paramount suitor carousel. Plus, Nelson Peltz’s script for the Disney turnaround.
When rich and powerful families get into a sticky situations, they tend to call Warren Buffett’s favorite banker, Byron Trott.
WALL STREET January 31, 2024
Byron Trott, perhaps the most successful investment banker of his generation, has helped Buffett, the Pritzkers, the Waltons, and the Mars families. Can he work the same magic for Shari Redstone?
JPMorgan Chase is no closer to solving its succession problem after this game of musical chairs than it was before, especially since Jamie has zero reason to turn down a $50 million thank-you card in 2026.
WALL STREET January 28, 2024
News and notes on the most topical items among the Sebonack crowd: Jamie’s executive shuffle, M&A activity at Paramount, and Elon’s stock rant.


The biggest impediment to a deal for the Redstone family’s NAI or Paramount Global is the change of control provision that would require any financial buyer to refinance $11.2 billion of Paramount’s senior notes.
WALL STREET January 24, 2024
Here’s what the apostles of private equity really want from the Redstone heirloom. “It’s the beginning of the end, not the end of the beginning,” as one wise banker told me.
The new lead independent director of Goldman Sachs will be David Viniar, the firm’s longtime chief financial officer.
WALL STREET January 21, 2024
Notes on the two hottest governance topics among the Maidstone crowd: Goldman’s post-Bayo board shuffle and Peltz’s latest monkey wrench.
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