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The Los Angeles Lakers are an NBA basketball franchise based in Los Angeles, one of the league's most valuable and storied teams.
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Four raises worth $7.7 billion landed in one week, and the largest is not a fund with an exit clock. Thrive's roll-up vehicle sold roughly a sixth of itself at a $12 billion valuation.
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The second NBA control change in a week is a reordering of an existing cap table rather than an auction. The number nobody published is what the buyer is actually paying.
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Two Walter-controlled insurers restated related-party holdings from $1.4 billion to more than $17 billion. The correction, not the credit quality, is the number allocators should be reading.
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A closed-end fund distributed $1.74bn over eight fiscal years while earning about a third of it, covering the gap by issuing shares above NAV. The premium is now a discount.
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Fortune reports a tax logic under the Thrive founder's franchise purchase. On one analyst's allocation estimate, the deal implies roughly $750 million a year of deductible amortization.
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Jeanie Buss says a co-trustee veto blocks her siblings from selling the family's last 17.8% to Kushner and Iger. The letter also warns anyone who helps them.
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Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger's record bid is being read by outside analysts as a non-passive shield against carried interest. The pricing logic may sit in the tax code.
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Mark Walter's Chelsea stake is the headline. The related-party loan figure an internal audit multiplied by 21 is the part that matters to anyone with money at Guggenheim.
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