Entries tagged "Black"
Despite activist investor, blogger and amateur comedian Carl Icahn's lawsuit against Apollo Management LP-backed real estate brokerage Realogy Corp., which does business as Century 21, Coldwell Banker and Corcoran, over its debt exchange offer, there is no love lost between Icahn and Apollo's founder Leon Black (pictured), who both go back about 25 years when Black was a young banker at Drexel Burnham & Lambert. Icahn made light of their history in one of his amateur comedy routines at Caroline's a few years ago. Watch the video after the break. - Matthew Wurtzel...
One can forgive the Chicago Sun-Times for consigning a slew of parent company changes to a three-paragraph "business brief" in its Wednesday edition, reminiscent, as they were, of a half-decade of pain. Pain as only internecine warfare between management and shareholders can wreak. Pain of the sort only former press lord Conrad Black could inflict on his shareholders, his employers and, ultimately, himself....
