Category: Playbooks

Analysis: Musk Tears Up Buyout Playbook With $46.5 Billion Twitter Financing

It is the biggest acquisition financing ever put forward for one person. Elon Musk is doing it his way. More than two-thirds of the $46.5 billion financing package that Musk unveiled on Thursday in support of his bid for Twitter Inc. would come from his assets, with the remainder coming from bank loans secured against…


Tokyo Games Offer Playbooks to Assure Athletes, Sway Public

TOKYO—It will be an Olympics like no other, the world’s largest mega-sports event being staged in the middle of a pandemic. Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out “Playbooks” to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan—and exit Japan—with the Olympics opening…