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24 document-grounded files · 109 quoted exchanges
The long, twisting saga of how Shari Redstone finally sold control of Paramount—after a failed bid, a special committee fight, a rival bidder, and one of the most difficult family succession stories in American media.
The $71 billion deal that remade Hollywood: Bob Iger's gamble on Rupert Murdoch's film and TV assets, the bidding war with Comcast, and the streaming war it was meant to win.
The $4.7 billion deal to fold Spirit AeroSystems back into Boeing—after the door plug blowout exposed two decades of outsourcing quality control—and the awkward homecoming that followed.
Darren Woods's $59.5 billion bet that Exxon should own the Permian Basin outright, and the FTC's unusual personal-politics condition that shadowed the deal.
Marc Benioff's $27.7 billion bet that Slack was the future of how companies work—and the culture clash with Stewart Butterfield that followed.
Amazon's $1.7 billion bid for Roomba maker iRobot was meant to bring robotics into the smart home. European regulators saw a vacuum company's disappearance as a threat to the entire device market, and the deal died.
How Exxon's pre-emptive rights claim threatened to derail Chevron's $53 billion acquisition of Hess, and the arbitration that decided who gets a slice of the world's most exciting oil basin.
The 72-hour scramble that forced UBS to swallow Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion, as Swiss regulators turned a proud rival into a fire sale over one weekend.
How Adobe's $20 billion bet on Figma—the biggest software deal of its era—unraveled under U.K. and EU antitrust scrutiny, and why the price tag collapsed to nothing.
Inside Nvidia's failed $40 billion bid for Arm, the hardest deal of Jensen Huang's career, blocked by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.
Internal messages, board communications, and employee letters from the five days in November 2023 when Sam Altman was fired and rehired at OpenAI.
The three cases that reshaped crypto regulation: the FTX collapse, the Binance guilty plea, and the Coinbase SEC fight.
Three antitrust battles that defined the new era of merger enforcement: Google's default search deals, the JetBlue/Spirit Spirit Effect, and Microsoft's Activision fight.
The internal communications and IPO filings that revealed the gap between WeWork's messianic public image and its chaotic internal reality.
Internal airline emails and trial testimony from the DOJ's successful challenge to the JetBlue-Spirit merger, as told through the antitrust trial record.
Elon Musk's sworn deposition testimony in the SEC's lawsuit over his 'funding secured' tweet, as told through the court transcript.
The DOJ's case against Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, as told through the plea hearing, compliance documents, and internal communications exposed in the settlement.
Internal Google emails and trial testimony from the DOJ's landmark antitrust case reveal how the company spent billions to remain the default search engine everywhere.
Internal communications and congressional testimony from the March 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the largest bank failure since 2008.
The Kroger-Albertsons merger trial produced internal documents showing how two grocery giants planned to defend a $24.6 billion deal against antitrust scrutiny.
Coinbase's internal communications during the SEC Wells notice reveal a company preparing for war with its regulator.
Internal FTX and Alameda messages from the bankruptcy proceedings reveal the blurred lines between the exchange and the trading firm.
Text messages between Elon Musk and his bankers reveal the chaos behind the Twitter acquisition financing.
Internal Microsoft emails and testimony show the tense negotiations and personal friction behind the $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition.
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