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Endeavor is now a private company as the $25 billion acquisition by Silver Lake was completed on Monday, marked by a leadership change.
Was all the merging and acquisitioning worth the effort for Ari Emanuel and WME, which is now back to focusing on agenting?
With the move, Endeavor is changing its name to WME Group, reflecting its refocusing on the representation business. According to Silver Lake, when consolidating all of the value of TKO Group ...
The private equity firm says the all-in value of the company — which owns talent agency WME, marketing agency 160over90 and brand licensing agency IMG — is $25 billion. By Elizabeth Dilts ...
For starters, the newly-private businesses will go by WME Group, retiring the Endeavor name for public-facing purposes. Ari Emanuel, who founded Endeavor in 1995 and most recently served as CEO of ...
The Endeavor brand will no longer be used publicly. Its collection of assets will operate under WME Group, the companies said today. Emanuel, who founded the Endeavor talent agency in 1995 and ...
“The real inflection point of my career was the successful merger with William Morris,” he said referring to the 2009 merger between Endeavor and the William Morris Agency which created ...
The Endeavor brand will no longer be used publicly. Its collection of assets will operating under WME Group. The Silver Lake acquisition group, which also includes Endeavor management and some ...
If, like most people, you haven’t been paying close attention to the up and down fortunes of Endeavor, WME and Ari Emanuel’s ambitions to become a corporate titan, let us boil it down for you ...
Endeavor’s stretch as a public company has officially come to an end after nearly four years. Endeavor’s stretch as a public company has officially come to an end after nearly four years.
He has just stepped aside as one of the most influential talent agents of his generation, having shepherded the careers of everyone from Ben Affleck to Matthew McConaughey to Angelina Jolie, but ...