“His ability to finance these multi-billion dollar media consolidations are at least to some degree, margin loans on his Oracle holdings ... he had to do a $40 billion backstop”
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Financed his son David's acquisition of Paramount and Warner Bros. assets through Skydance, providing tens of billions of dollars
tens of billions of dollars
“His ability to finance these multi-billion dollar media consolidations are at least to some degree, margin loans on his Oracle holdings ... he had to do a $40 billion backstop”
“There's $40 billion in backstop of the Warner Brothers deal ... a third of his shares ... made available as collateral for him to use for personal reasons.”
“We recruited the team that managed a mass, a much larger business. A bit like bringing in an asset manager who was managing $100 billion to go manage a billion dollar portfolio.”
“We were able to really back ourselves and continue to invest... introduction to Gilead Kite came through our network... acquisition by Gilead in April for $7.8 billion”
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