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29 Jun, 2007 10:53 am
Some brides-to-be are upset - "bawling," according to the New York Post - because Ronald Burkle, head
of the private equity firm Yucaipa, bought a $17 million penthouse in downtown New York. What's so bad about that? Well, there is the small matter of the many wedding receptions that
had been scheduled to take place [...]
27 Nov, 2006 6:31 am
Ronald W. Burkle, the grocery magnate who runs the investment firm Yucaipa, has more on his mind than
just becoming a media mogul. Mr. Burkle's firm, which recently bid for Tribune Company alongside Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad, also plans
to launch a "corporate governance" fund early next year, Forbes reports in its latest [...]
22 Feb, 2007 5:12 am
After stocking up on shares of Wild Oats Markets, Ronald W. Burkle is set to check out at a tidy
profit. Whole Foods Market, the natural-foods grocer, agreed Wednesday to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, a smaller competitor whose largest shareholder is Mr. Burkle's investment firm, Yucaipa. At $18.50 a share, Whole Foods' [...]
5 Jun, 2007 8:59 am
Is Dow Jones becoming a case of deja vu all over again? The union representing Dow Jones's employees said Tuesday that it would team up with the Los Angeles billionaire Ronald Burkle to try and formulate a counteroffer to the News Corporation's $5 billion bid. The arrival of Mr.
Burkle, who leads the investment firm Yucaipa, [...]
16 Mar, 2007 4:22 am
AOL founder Steven Case, supermarket magnate Ronald Burkle and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla are
teaming up to invest in a company that could produce up to 1 billion gallons of ethanol a year in Brazil, according to The Wall Street Journal. Brazilian Renewable Energy Company, known
as Benco, closed an initial $200 million round of [...]
16 Mar, 2007 6:49 am
Jeffrey M. Johnson, the former Los Angeles Times publisher whose stand against Tribune led to his ouster, has taken a position with Ronald
Burkle's Yucaipa Companies, the private investment firm that is trying to acquire his former employer. The Times, which is owned by Tribune,
said that Mr. Johnson will be a principal in the [...]
18 Dec, 2007 4:33 am
Bankrupt Interstate Bakeries has rejected the joint bid from Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa and the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters after it decided that the $580 million offer was not a qualified bid because it left too many unanswered questions. According to the maker of
Wonder Bread and Twinkies, the Yucaipa proposal, which was submitted to IBC Dec. [...]
30 Mar, 2007 4:04 am
The drama for control of Tribune intensified last night as two Los Angeles billionaires put in a last-minute bid, topping an offer from the Chicago real estate magnate, Sam Zell, by a
dollar a share. Ronald W. Burkle and Eli Broad, sent a letter last night to Tribune management prior
to the company's self-imposed deadline [...]
14 May, 2007 8:04 am
Primedia agreed on Monday to sell about 70 magazines, including Motor Trend, Hot Rod and Surfer, to Source Interlink, a company controlled by the billionaire investor Ronald W. Burkle, for about $1.2 billion in cash. The sale, which followed an auction process packed by bidders,
will help pay off Primedia's $1.31 billion in debt, the Florida-based [...]
12 Aug, 2008 3:00 pm
... votes against the re-election of Yahoo! board members were significantly higher than initially reported, due to an error. Four directors -- Chairman Roy Bostock, CEO Jerry Yang,
Ronald Burkle and Arthur Kern -- all received greater than 30 percent opposition at the company' ...
.7 percent support from Yang, whereas opposition to his election was minimal last year. Bostock and Burkle had the most re-election opposition
this year, with 39.6 and 37.9 percent withholds, ...
2 Jan, 2007 2:52 pm
... billion, inheritance, oil George Roberts, 61, $2.5-billion, leveraged buyouts Henry Samueli, 51, $2.4-billion, Broadcom Steven Udvar-Hazy, 60, $2.4-billion, leasing Jerry Yang, 37,
$2.4-billion, Yahoo Ronald Burkle, 53, $2.3-billion, investments Gordon Getty, 73, $2.2-billion,
inheritance, oil Alfred Mann, 80, $2.1-billion, inventor, entrepreneur Charles Brandes, 63, $2-billion, money management William Hearst III, 56, $ ...
10 Jul, 2007 4:28 pm
Ronald Burkle, the Los Angeles billionaire, and Brad Greenspan, a founder of MySpace, are exploring
the possibility of combining forces on a bid for Dow Jones to thwart a takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, The Associated Press reported citing an unnamed source. A committee
of Dow Jones directors, including a representative for the Bancroft family [...]
7 Sep, 2007 12:48 am
... Against Billionaire New York Law Journal A New York judge has denied pro hac vice admission to the Miami lawyer representing former gossip reporter Jared Paul Stern in his lawsuit
against billionaire Ronald Burkle. In denying Larry Klayman's application to practice in New York,
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub pointed to other judges' litany of complaints about "inappropriate and unethical behavior" by Klayman, who is known ...
8 Sep, 2007 10:07 pm
... who in 1997 sanctioned Klayman for making "preposterous" claims and engaging in "abusive and obnoxious" behavior. Klayman, who vows to appeal the ruling, is seeking the right to
represent former New York Post gossip reporter Jared Paul Stern in a lawsuit against billionaire Ronald Burkle. (Anthony Lin, "Klayman Denied N.Y. Admission in Former Gossip Reporter's Suit Against Billionaire", New York Law Journal, Sept. 7).
4 Apr, 2006 10:59 am
... divorce proceedings to be kept secret, legislation that opponents say is tailored to help Ron Burkle, a Los Angeles billionaire and
political contributor who has fought to keep information ... Judiciary Committee, also allows privately paid judges, such as the one hearing the Burkle case, to seal documents -- a right they do not have now. "Supposedly ... Supreme Court for a hearing. Janet Burkle's lawyer, Hillel Chodos, has asked Murray to withdraw his bill. "It may advance Ronald's litigation
strategies ...
19 Feb, 2008 8:40 am
Ronald W. Burkle may want to watch his back. Mr. Burkle,
the supermarket magnate and head of the investment firm Yucaipa Companies, is one of the 10 board members at Yahoo that Microsoft would try to eject if it wages a proxy fight at Yahoo's
next board meeting. As DealBook reported early Tuesday, Microsoft, whose unsolicited [...]
16 Jan, 2007 4:32 am
With the deadline for submitting bids for Tribune a day away, The New York Times examines the unlikely partnership of two possible suitors for the media company: Eli Broad, the
straight-talking billionaire whose art collection and philanthropic efforts to revitalize downtown Los Angeles have put him happily in the public eye, and Ronald W. Burkle, [...]
2 Apr, 2007 5:45 am
Sam Zell, a flamboyant Chicago real estate tycoon who has never run a newspaper, has won the battle of the billionaires for Tribune, which said it accepted his $8.2 billion takeover
offer after he matched a bid from Ronald W. Burkle and Eli Broad. Tribune also said Monday it would
sell the Chicago Cubs [...]
11 Apr, 2007 5:22 am
... directors get paid for service to the board? A considerable amount. Name Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($) Stock Awards ($) (1) All Other Compensation ($) (2) Total ($) Spencer
Abraham $ 91,500 $ 259,275 $ 36,024 (3) $ 386,799 Ronald W. Burkle $ 75,500 $ 259,275 $ 0 $ 334,775
John S. Chalsty $ 99,500 $ 300,759 $ 32,136 (4) $ 432,395 Edward P. Djerejian $ 95,500 $ 259,275 $ 2,898 $ 357,673 R. Chad Dreier $ ...
11 Jul, 2007 8:11 am
If Rupert Murdoch is worried about Ronald W. Burkle and Brad Greenspan working with the Bancroft
family and the union representing Dow Jones employees in an attempt to cut his purchase of The Wall Street Journal off at the pass, he certainly isn't showing it. He arrived in Sun
Valley looking fit and confident, sort of [...]
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