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    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Leonard Blavatnik’s entertainment empire plans media acquisition spree

      Access Entertainment boss says Ukraine-born billionaire to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in TV, film and theatre

      Danny Cohen
    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      DAZN Group
      Sports rights to sports betting: what next for Blavatnik-backed DAZN?

      Lossmaking streaming service looking for wins after failure to acquire BT Sport

      Puerto Rican boxer Amanda Serrano at DAZN’s Miami Fight Night in January 2020
    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      DAZN Group
      Len Blavatnik agrees $4.3bn recapitalisation of DAZN

      Deal will take sports streaming group debt free as it explores new markets

      Football action from Bayern Munich v Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga first division
    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      City InsiderBryce Elder
      Bob Dudley and Len Blavatnik reunite at LyondellBasell Premium content

      Former BP boss joins board of Dutch petrochemicals group

    • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
      #techFT
      Rocketmen’s down-to-earth mission

      Warner Music float plan, immunity passports inspected, Syng’s Cell speakers

    • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
      Warner Music Group Corp
      Warner Music resumes flotation plans

      Offering would give group, whose artists include Ed Sheeran and Lizzo, valuation of up to $13.3bn

      Warner Music Group is behind artists such as Lizzo, pictured performing in London last year
    • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
      Media
      Sports streaming group DAZN seeks cash to help secure future

      Group owned by Len Blavatnik faces upheaval as pandemic shuts down sports

    • Thursday, 6 June, 2019
      FT Magazine
      From Russian oil to rock’n’roll: the rise of Len Blavatnik

      He made a fortune in the chaotic world of 1990s Russian capitalism, then took a place at the heart of the British establishment

    • Monday, 26 November, 2018
      Telecoms
      Len Blavatnik’s Norwegian telecoms group Ice set to float

      One of Europe’s fastest-growing telecoms companies aims to raise £275m

      Women use their mobile phones at Luxury Time, the city's first women-only restaurant, in Erbil, Iraq July 17, 2018. Picture taken July 17, 2018. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RC17C56DBBF0
    • Wednesday, 17 October, 2018
      Sport
      Blavatnik-backed DAZN strike $365m deal with boxer Canelo Alvarez

      Deal is one of the largest with a single athlete in sporting history

    • Saturday, 24 March, 2018
      News in-depthExpats
      Expat Russians fear cold front in ‘Londongrad’

      Rich settlers, bankers and property developers all left exposed to fallout from Skripal case

      Russian money has made inroads at Westminster, with the most recent example being Oleg Deripaska
    • Tuesday, 6 March, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Investor group deal for Weinstein Company collapses

      Discovery of undisclosed liabilities at film studio leads to purchase falling through

      FILE - In this April 7, 2014 file photo, Maria Contreras-Sweet speaks during a ceremonial swearing in as Administrator of the Small Business Administration in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. A group of investors says it has revived a deal to buy assets of the Weinstein Co., potentially saving the beleaguered studio from bankruptcy. The announcement Thursday came just four days after the Weinstein Co. announced it was pulling out of the sale and would file for bankruptcy for protection. Businesswoman Contreras-Sweet is leading the investors' group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
    • Tuesday, 6 March, 2018
      Media
      The Weinstein Company deal with investor group collapses
    • Monday, 27 November, 2017
      US politics & policy
      Fast Asia Open: Indonesia loan growth, S Korea manufacturing
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2017
      US & Canadian companies
      Weinstein Company board told of bid interest 

      Len Blavatnik and Ron Burkle said to have expressed interest 

      FILE - In this March 7, 2012 file photo, U.S film producer and movie studio chairman Harvey Weinstein during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, the same day as Weinstein received, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. French President Emmanuel Macron says Sunday Oct. 15, 2017 that he wants to revoke Harvey Weinstein's Legion of Honor award after the wave of accusations of sexual harassment and abuse against the Hollywood titan. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
    • Friday, 16 June, 2017
      UK honours system
      Len Blavatnik knighted in Queen’s birthday honours

      Also a posthumous George Medal for Westminster attack policeman

      Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists...Len Blavatnik, chairman and president of Access Industries Holdings LLC, listens during the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists held at Cipriani in New York, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of the most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Photographer: Rick Maiman/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2017
      UK economy
      Tate Modern names extension to mark donor’s record £50m gift

      Blavatnik Building has attracted 6m visitors in the 11 months since it opened

      LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 14: A general view of the interior of Tate Modern's new Switch House on June 14, 2016 in London, England. The Tate Modern art gallery unveils its new Switch House building today designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 28 April, 2017
      US & Canadian companies
      Time Inc turns the page on plans for sale

      Magazine publisher decides to stay independent after months of talks

      The silhouette of a pedestrian is seen walking past the new headquarters of Time Inc. in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Time Inc. employees start working at their new headquarters in lower Manhattan on Monday. The shift is cultural as well as geographic for the magazine company, associated with its namesake Midtown building since 1959, and once the most powerful brand in publishing. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
    • Saturday, 22 April, 2017
      US & Canadian companies
      Blavatnik cleared of fraud claims over Lyondell Chemical buyout

      Bankruptcy judge says trustee failed to prove case involving billionaire investor

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2017
      Media
      Five suitors in the running for purchase of Time Inc
    • Monday, 28 November, 2016
      US & Canadian companies
      Time Inc rejects $1.8bn bid from media executives

      Team behind unsolicited offer included Len Blavatnik, Edgar Bronfman and Ynon Kreiz

      Time Warner...FILE - This Nov. 19, 2008 file photo shows President Barack Obama featured in a special issue of Time Magazine on a New York newsstand. Time Warner Inc. on Wednesday March 6, 2013 said that it will spin off the magazine unit behind Time, Sports Illustrated and People into a separate, publicly traded company by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
    • Monday, 28 November, 2016
      Media
      Publisher Time Inc rejects unsolicited bid
    • Monday, 31 October, 2016
      Inside BusinessSujeet Indap
      Just how LBI went bust is subject to legal controversy

      Lyondell trial could force those footing bill for alleged wrongdoing to include victims

    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford — ‘Sculptural exuberance’

      Circles and spirals distinguish Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron’s new university building

      Spiral stairs lead to quiet retreats around Oxford university's new Blavatnik School of Government building
    • Tuesday, 24 November, 2015
      Strategy
      Gett - new name, new direction for taxi app

      Shahar Waiser is changing the model from transporting just people to include speedy delivery of goods

      Shahar Waiser founder and CEO of The Gett application at his offices in Tel Aviv Tuesday Oct. 27 2015. Photo by Eyal Warshavsky.
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