Ken Belson

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Ken Belson |Karen Weise

A trade war with China and tariff threats on other countries are ramping up pressure on stores that sell products from overseas - which, for some categories, is just about all of them. Vivian Hoffman has worked in retail for a half-century, including 25 years as a buyer for Century 21 and the last eight running Whim, a chain selling affordable women's clothing in the suburbs of New York City. She has adapted to recessions, the turmoil after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

1 month ago | pressdemocrat.com | Lauren Hirsch |Ken Belson

The San Francisco Giants, one of Major League Baseball’s most successful franchises, have sold about 10% of the team to private equity group Sixth Street. The team will use the cash to help pay for upgrades to the franchise’s 25-year-old stadium and other facilities, as well as the Mission Rock real estate development adjacent to the ballpark. Details of the purchase, which was approved by MLB on March 17, were not disclosed. But the team was last valued at $3.8 billion by Forbes.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ken Belson

Robert E. Denham, a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer who was known for parachuting into imperiled companies and splintered board rooms and steering the organizations out of trouble, died on Saturday at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 79. His family said the cause was cancer. Soft-spoken, erudite and strategic, Mr. Denham had a knack for being calm under pressure, listening before talking and not necessarily taking the lawyerly path to a resolution. Those traits led Warren E.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andrew Ross Sorkin |Ravi Mattu |Bernhard Warner |Sarah Kessler |Lauren Hirsch |Ken Belson | +1 more

Image Jung Hoo Lee of the San Francisco Giants signing autographs. The franchise has sold a roughly 10 percent stake to a private equity firm. Credit... Lindsey Wasson/Associated Press The San Francisco Giants, one of Major League Baseball's most successful franchises, have sold about 10 percent of the team to the private equity group Sixth Street, The Times's Ken Belson and DealBook's Lauren Hirsch are first to report.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ken Belson

It's hard to be ubiquitous in Tokyo, one of the largest cities in the world, but Shohei Ohtani has found a way. The Los Angeles Dodgers star seems to be everywhere: on billboards, on products, in television ads and news and entertainment shows and, of course, on the field when his games are broadcast live in Japan.