capital i small L make captcha suck sometimes
i don't think he knows what side he is on anymore.
https://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/ufc-sold-new-owners-ari-emanuel-wme-img-patrick-whitesell-4-billion-071116
William Morris Endeavor-International Marketing Group is a huge conglomerate that merged in 2013 after WME purchased IMG for a reported $2.4 billion price tag. WME already boasted an incredibly powerful slate of clients as a talent agency representing movies, television, music and more. Some of the clients represented by WME include Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Timberlake, Drake and Rihanna.
One of the names you’ll hear the most during this UFC sale is Ari Emanuel, who is the co-CEO behind WME-IMG.
Silver Lake is a private equity firm with investments in technology and many technology based industries. Silver Lake has invested in companies such as Dell, Go Daddy, and of course WME-IMG
If a major decision is being made at WME-IMG, Emanuel, Whitesell and Durban are the people making the call.
Before joining Silver Lake, Durban worked at Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division while heading up investment opportunities in the technology industry.
MSD Capital has teamed up with Silver Lake previous in a sale to purchase EMC, a company specializing in cloud computing, information security and data storage. They also teamed up to acquire Dell Computers, a company Michael Dell started with $1,000 when he was still a teenager 30 years ago.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/saudi-arabia-debacle-hollywood-questions-sources-shady-cash-1152903
Though a source says Endeavor would have exited the Saudi pact regardless, clients of its WME agency had begun lobbying Emanuel to cut ties (and at least one high-profile agent at a rival agency was using the Saudi situation to attempt to poach talent). WME reps a number of visible and vocal journalists including Ronan Farrow, Mika Brzezinski, Chris Matthews and Scott Pelley. Had Endeavor kept the money, it likely would have led to departures. On Oct. 14, client John Oliver took a shot at World Wrestling Entertainment for staying noncommittal about its relationship with the Saudis on his HBO show. It was only a matter of time before Oliver took aim at his own agency. “This was absolutely the right thing to do and I’m glad Ari Emanuel addressed it quickly,” Farrow tweeted Oct. 16.