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Endeavor Group Holdings has updated the planned timeline of its IPO until September at the earliest, giving it time to close a $700 million acquisition and post second-quarter results, according to a person familiar with the situation. The company had previously estimated the offering would happen in the second half…

Veteran media analyst Todd Juenger of Bernstein has offered one of the first detailed looks at Endeavor from a Wall Street perspective ahead of its planned IPO. His conclusion: Investing in the company “is not for the faint of heart,” and the mega-agency’s pitched battle with the Writers Guild is just one of the…

In order to move toward its long-awaited IPO, Endeavor has had to reveal a trove of financial information, including the pay packages for Ari Emanuel, Patrick Whitesell and other executives, as well as extensive details about its financial performance. The 387-page SEC filing dropped late last week by Endeavor Group…

Endeavor has officially made a move that many from Wall Street to Hollywood have long expected, filing with the SEC to become a publicly traded company. No range was given in the S-1 prospectus for how much the company hopes to raise from the initial public offering, though the 200-page document did include a range of…

Harry Sloan, known in Hollywood for, among other things, leading MGM in the 2000s, and former CBS executive Jeff Sagansky, have priced the initial public offering of their fifth public acquisition vehicle. Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, will aim to raise $400 million, with…

Talk about timing. WGA members are right now voting to authorize its WGA West board and WGA East council to implement a new agency code of conduct that includes banning packaging fees and severing agency ties to affiliated production entities. That vote closes Sunday morning. What a moment for a bombshell Wall Street J…

Digital scrapbook Pinterest has filed for an initial public offering of stock, joining what should be a busy IPO season for tech stocks. Pinterest is a big site for so-called influencers, who use it to tout fashion, interior design, and travel tips, among other topics. Pinterest said Friday it will list on the New Yo…

UPDATED with closing stock price. Snapchat parent Snap Inc. has revealed that regulators at the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether it misled investors ahead of its 2017 IPO. The news sent the company’s battered shares, which have already fallen more than 50% in…

Sonos has priced its IPO at $15 a share, below the range it specified last month of $17 to $19 a share. Led by underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the maker of high-end smart audio products, will start trading tomorrow on the Nasdaq, using the ticker symbol SONO. Even at the lowered price, the offering…

STX Entertainment, which is known for action features like The Foreigner starring Jackie Chan and Killer’s Game with Jason Statham is looking to go public in Hong Kong in August. If the planned IPO goes through, it would mark the first U.S. company to raise funds in Hong Kong. According to the South China Morning…

China’s largest music streaming company, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, is poised to create an initial public offering (IPO) and is negotiating with several banks for underwriting. The Wall Street Journal reported that the successful debut of Spotify Technology SA is the motivator for Tencent. If all goes as…

Despite having extended CEO Randy Falco’s contract through 2020 last November, Univision has now confirmed that he will retire by the end of 2018. The accelerated retirement plan comes during a 24-hour period when the company ditched its long-planned IPO stratregy and replaced its CFO. Univision provided a statement…