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Byline: Lauren Hirsch, Benjamin Mullin and Ken Belson His bid to buy Paramount pits one son of a billionaire against the son of another. When the media executive Edgar Bronfman [...]

Byline: Kenneth P. Vogel, Theodore Schleifer and Lauren Hirsch The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere. After [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch For 50 years, Michaels has managed both the weekly circus of producing 'Saturday Night Live' and the broader task of keeping it relevant. How does he do [...]

Byline: Mara Hvistendahl and Lauren Hirsch Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican [...]

Byline: Brooks Barnes and Lauren Hirsch Individuals hold as much as 40 percent of the company's shares, and they may decide a proxy battle that is one of the most [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire. For [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and David McCabe Wall Street is abuzz about a potential deal, but the large price tag for the app is one of many factors that could limit [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Alan Blinder Rancor within the tour's board could shape decisions about the final agreement and influence the sport for decades to come. The PGA Tour is [...]

Byline: Jim Tankersley and Lauren Hirsch The law has effectively created a new marketplace that helps smaller companies gain access to funding, with banks taking a cut. The 2022 climate [...]

Byline: Kevin Draper, Alan Blinder and Lauren Hirsch With the addition of Woods, players will outnumber independent directors, giving them the final say in the tour's plan to form a [...]

Byline: Alan Blinder, Kevin Draper and Lauren Hirsch The 11-member board did not vote on the surprise pact, whose most significant details are still being negotiated. The PGA Tour's board, [...]

Byline: Alan Blinder, Lauren Hirsch, Kevin Draper and Kate Kelly Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, had gone unnoticed in Venice last month. With luck, he thought over breakfast near [...]

Byline: Daisuke Wakabayashi, Ana Swanson and Lauren Hirsch Foreign businesses, a top Chinese official said in March, 'are not foreigners, but family.' Then came a crackdown on firms with foreign [...]

Byline: Alan Rappeport, Lauren Hirsch, Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley Officials were initially unsure about the need for the measures they eventually announced to shore up the financial system, but [...]

Byline: Ana Swanson and Lauren Hirsch The Biden administration is preparing new rules that would restrict U.S. dollars from flowing to China. WASHINGTON - Growing concerns about China's military and [...]

Byline: Maureen Farrell, Lauren Hirsch and Anupreeta Das There were fewer mergers and public listings this year, shrinking investment banking revenue. For bankers, that means a smaller pot of money [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch Mr. Musk faces financial challenges in owning Twitter. The site frequently loses money and took on $13 billion in debt for the blockbuster deal. Now that Elon [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware's Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter. She is also the judge in at least [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch, David McCabe, Katie Benner and Glenn Thrush The Biden administration and TikTok have drafted a preliminary agreement to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned video [...]

Byline: Benjamin Mullin, Lauren Hirsch and Ben Hubbard The company is in talks to develop a content partnership with MBC, a Saudi Arabian media giant partly owned by the government. [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Kate Conger Most legal experts say Twitter has the upper hand. But Musk revels in brinkmanship. Now that Elon Musk has signaled his intent to walk [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch The world of deal making has always been rough and tumble. But Mr. Musk blows any predecessors away. The history of mergers and acquisitions is filled with [...]

Byline: Emma Goldberg, Alisha Haridasani Gupta and Lauren Hirsch In a deeply divided nation, public statements on Roe v. Wade can affect everything from recruiting to a company's bottom line. [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Mike Isaac It's highly unusual to move from a 'poison pill' to a $44 billion deal in under two weeks. But Twitter's board ran out of [...]

Byline: Anupreeta Das and Lauren Hirsch Financially speaking, the billionaire's buyout of the social media network breaks all the usual rules. At the peak of the buyout boom in 2007, [...]

Byline: Emma Goldberg and Lauren Hirsch A hybrid-work challenge: taking attendance. Hybrid-work arrangements often sound like math equations. Three days a week in the office, two at home; 50 workers [...]

Byline: Mike Isaac, Kate Conger and Lauren Hirsch The billionaire executive recently became one of the company's largest shareholders. Now he says he wants to buy the whole thing and [...]

Byline: Kate Conger, Mike Isaac and Lauren Hirsch Free speech, open-source algorithms - and an edit button: The world's richest person will soon help steer the social media platform where [...]

Byline: Eshe Nelson, Alan Rappeport and Lauren Hirsch Citing sanctions, the Russian government warned it might pay foreign debt obligations in rubles. Credit rating agencies say a default is imminent. [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Michael J. de la Merced Partners of the Winter Games in Beijing face tough questions over the host country's handling of the missing tennis star. Over [...]

Byline: Emma Goldberg, Lauren Hirsch and David McCabe In the absence of a national effort to make coronavirus testing widely available, a number of big American companies ramped up their [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Emma Goldberg Some businesses are changing their vaccination policies to require booster shots, while others are prioritizing coronavirus tests. It was the first workday of 2022. [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Sapna Maheshwari The Biden administration has called on major companies to help fight the pandemic. Big chains want to get past the holiday staffing crunch first. [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Michael Corkery The meatpacking giant, which was criticized for failing to do enough to protect its workers from Covid-19 last year, has become a leader on [...]

Byline: Matthew Goldstein, Lauren Hirsch and David Enrich The former president began discussing a deal with a 'blank check' company early this year. Investors weren't told. Just days after Donald [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch Companies are devising vaccination policies for new hires along with rules for their existing employees. The DealBook newsletter delves into a single topic or theme every weekend, [...]

Byline: Michael Corkery, Lauren Hirsch, Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning Tyson and Microsoft were the latest to require employees to be vaccinated. Other major employers have tried less sweeping approaches. [...]

Byline: Edmund Lee and Lauren Hirsch Not so long ago, when newspapers and magazines were going out of business all across the country, BuzzFeed and a few other fast-growing web [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch and Kellen Browning A wave of the contagious Delta variant is causing companies to reconsider when they will require employees to return, and what health requirements should [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch Companies are sending surveys, offering cash rewards and requiring disclosures to find out how much of their work force is vaccinated. The message from many companies to [...]

Byline: Jack Ewing and Lauren Hirsch Oatly, maker of dairy alternatives, could be worth $10 billion when it lists on the stock market this week. The share sale is a [...]

Byline: Gillian Friedman and Lauren Hirsch It is a delicate decision balancing employee health and personal privacy. Some companies are sidestepping the issue by offering incentives to those who get [...]

Byline: Choe Sang-Hun and Lauren Hirsch Coupang, a start-up founded by a Harvard Business School dropout, helped transform e-commerce in South Korea, one of the world's fastest-growing markets for online [...]

Byline: Gillian Friedman and Lauren Hirsch Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon are among the companies offering the government assistance with logistics and operations. Amazon wrote to President Biden on Thursday offering [...]