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NEW: 10 years ago Steve Schwarzman spun off the Blackstone financial advisory business. That group is now worth $7bn in total and the Schwarzman and Paul Taubman respective stakes each worth ~$1bn: on.ft.com/4eCOaFo

#Pharma deals fall to lowest level in almost a decade ft.com/content/54a1d8… #FT story by Maria Heeter + Oliver Barnes + Ian Johnston Back in June #Bloomberg were reporting that sector transaction values were cooling, with private deals leading M&A bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Blackrock has swung a heavy bat this year as Larry Fink's ambition in private capital has come into full view. Nearly $20bn of BLK's M&A uses its stock, underscoring the importance of a valid acquisition currency + cash. Eric Platt Brooke Masters ft.com/content/70a053…

Just another Merger Monday... ft.com/content/01eb51… Maria Heeter James Fontanella-Khan Antoine Gara

Blue Owl co-founder seeking multiway merger to form PE investment giant on.ft.com/3DjHQpm

Blue Owl co-founder seeking multiway merger to form PE investment giant Billionaire dealmaker Michael Rees sounds out potential partners to assemble new firm in mould of Blackstone via ⁦Maria Heeter ⁦Antoine Gara⁩ Financial Times #PrivateEquity on.ft.com/3ZJ0COv

Over-paid, over-sized and over here. American asset managers are elbowing aside European ones on their home turf. Good piece on another facet of US exceptionalism by Harriet Agnew and Brooke Masters ft.com/content/bc1b6e…

Michael Rees, the pioneer of staking powerful private capital groups, has been sounding out dealmakers on the idea of a 3-to-5 firm merger among companies in his portfolio. A complex deal concept in a fast consolidating industry. From Maria Heeter & me ft.com/content/33193d…

I profiled Trump's new AI and crypto tsar David Sacks over the weekend. Those who know him describe a man who is controversial, theatrical - and offensive to those who take him literally but irreverent and witty to those who do not. Free article below on.ft.com/3ZEDPDu

Some of the best tech reporting of the year Ashlee Vance Cory Weinberg Kate Clark Maria Heeter Deepa Seetharaman keachhagey Berber Jin Kate Linebaugh rat king 🐀 erin griffith Kylie Robison

Thank you, @GordonHaskett ❤️

This is such an interesting column from Gillian Tett on the fiscal fight brewing in the court of Donald Trump - particularly this line on Steven Bannon saying Trump needs to increase taxes on the wealthy ft.com/content/c088a0…

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🚨SCOOP🚨 Pfizer’s chief executive Albert Bourla decamped with his top management team to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for an off-site meeting, in the latest attempt by corporate America to ingratiate itself with the US president-elect on.ft.com/3DWgDZZ

💊🚨SCOOP💊🚨MDMA start-up Lykos is the subject of a hostile takeover bid. Early Tesla investor Antonio Gracias has been pitching investors on a plan where he would take a controlling stake in Lykos. Gracias’s plan has the backing of Maps founder Rick Doblin and would tap Jeff

The new year is a good chance for IPO bankers to start getting excited about 2026 ⁦George Hammond⁩

Valor Equity Partners/ Antonio Gracias leads attempt to seize control of MDMA biotech Lykos ft.com/content/ae447a… via @ft

🚨💉JPM DEAL SCOOP💉🚨 Eli Lilly, the world's biggest drugmaker by market value, is in advanced talks to buy targeted therapy cancer biotech Scorpion Therapeutics in a deal worth up $2.5bn With superstar deals team Maria Heeter & James Fontanella-Khan ft.com/content/fdd081…

.Financial Times scoop from Hannah Kuchler & me confirmed: GSK to buy cancer biotech IDRx for $1bn and $150mn earnout

.Financial Times scoop on Eli Lilly buying Scorpion confirmed!