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UPDATED with additional Shapiro comments in an interview. Endeavor Group Holdings President Mark Shapiro told Deadline in an interview that a hiring freeze is in place at the company through the end of 2022, but he emphasized that it was enacted as a way to be financially “prudent” and not due to any…

UPDATED with comments from post-earnings conference call: Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel said today that if there is a dip in content spending underway, his company "isn't feeling it." Responding to the question he gets from Wall Street every quarter now, he ticked off all the high-end deals Endeavor's made…

Endeavor's IMG global events group has sold The Miss Universe Organization to Thailand-based JKN Global Media. Financial details weren't disclosed but the deal is said to be valued at $20 million. The organization that oversees the annual Miss Universe competition has been part of IMG since…

Endeavor’s IMG has acquired a majority stake in Barrett-Jackson, a collector car auction and live events group, for just over $261 million in a cash and stock deal. Endeavor is taking 55% of the company for about $249 million in cash and 563,935 newly-issued Endeavor shares. IMG — which operates events including…

Endeavor Group said revenue rose 18% to $1.3 billion last quarter led by higher media rights fees and live event, partnership, consumer product and licensing revenues at UFC as well as the return of live events. Owned sports properties, which includes UFC, saw revenue of $332 million up 28% from the 2021 quarter…

Endeavor has struck a deal to sell its professional development league business, Diamond Baseball Holdings, to investment firm Silver Lake, Endeavor’s major investor, for $280 million. DBL has been operating under Endeavor “to bring value to local minor league clubs affiliated with Major League Baseball through…

Endeavor Group has amended its pending purchase of sports betting company OpenBet in a cash and stock deal that's now worth $800 million versus $1.2 billion when it was announced in September. The talent agency, sports and events giant led by Ari Emanuel had agreed to pay $1 billion in cash and over 7.6 million newly…

Endeavor sales jumped 38% to nearly $1.5 billion during the first quarter of 2022 and the company on Thursday reported net income of $518 million as talent representation and live events jumped. EPS was $1.19 for the quarter ended in March, a year after the talent agency, UFC owner and live event operator went public…

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel’s 2021 compensation reached $308.2 million, at least on paper, thanks to the company’s initial public offering last April. In part of a set of SEC filings released Wednesday evening as the company reported fourth-quarter financial results, Endeavor said the “recognized compensation” was…

Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, who has long espoused the benefits of streaming’s boom times, said he’s “not nervous” about Warner Bros Discovery possibly pumping the brakes as it looks to take on Netflix and Disney. Discovery chief David Zaslav, as Emanuel was reminded during Endeavor’s fourth-quarter earnings call…

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to exit the board of directors of Endeavor Group Holdings in June. The company disclosed the departure Wednesday in an SEC filing, which conveniently landed due to SEC rules just as the company was starting its quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts. The owner of…

(UPDATED with Endeavor statement) No one is ever going to say that Ari Emanuel doesn't play rough, but a new lawsuit filed today accuses the Endeavor boss of having some very sticky fingers in his well compensated desire to turn his 2019 IPO dreams into a 2021 reality. Seeking a jury trial over breach of implied…