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Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO Group as well as the soon-to-be-private Endeavor, saw a pay package valued at $64.9 million in 2023 as CE0 of TKO Group, the home of WWE and UFC. TKO is a relatively new company that started trading on the New York Stock Exchange last September. Emanuel’s compensation included…

Silver Lake's plan to take Endeavor private includes an investment of $250 million of seed equity "into a new business to be founded, managed and controlled" by executive chairman Patrick Whitesell. The business will include “investing in and providing services to companies in the entertainment…

Vince McMahon, the ex-WWE impresario who abruptly left parent TKO Group Holdings’ board in the wake of a graphic sexual abuse lawsuit “is not coming back to the company,” TKO President Mark Shapiro affirmed Wednesday. Speaking at a conference in San Francisco hosted by Wall Street firm Morgan…

Endeavor President and COO Mark Shapiro said the ultimate resolution of the WGA strike will improve the fortunes of the company’s representation business. “This is a growth opportunity for us,” Shapiro said during an appearance at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Communication Conference. “When…

UPDATED with additional Shapiro comments in an interview. Endeavor Group Holdings President Mark Shapiro told Deadline in an interview that a hiring freeze is in place at the company through the end of 2022, but he emphasized that it was enacted as a way to be financially “prudent” and not due to any…

Endeavor Group Holdings’ CEO Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro have resigned from Live Nation’s board of directors after the Justice Department expressed antitrust concerns. The DOJ suggested that their positions on the board created an “interlocking directorate,” where one person serves as an officer of director…

Endeavor President Market Shapiro said the newly public company has a cleaner, clearer story to tell Wall Street compared with its first IPO try in 2019. It is starting its new chapter with a portfolio of assets poised to reap major benefits, the exec told Deadline, as Covid-19 retreats and cash flow from a wholly…

A high-profile SPAC with Hollywood ties, Bright Lights Acquisition Corp, has been priced and will begin trading on Nasdaq tomorrow, Jan. 7. The blank-check company is run by former Dick Clark Prods. CEO Mike Mahan, who serves as CEO, as well as co-chairmen of the board of directors Allen Shapiro and John Howard, and…

The long expected cutbacks at WME will happen Monday. At the agency, 20% of its employees will either be laid off, furloughed or reduced to part time during this pandemic. This will include some agents, a lot of support staff and cuts will be felt deepest in music and non-agents in areas like shared services, and less…

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor chiefs are telling staff today that there were will be companywide pay cuts ranging from 0-30% that will occur in the coming weeks, Deadline has confirmed. This is similar to a strategy adopted by Disney and other companies, to avoid mass layoffs during a pandemic that has brought world commerce to…

Endeavor, the umbrella company that holds the likes of WME, IMG and the UFC, has promoted Mark Shapiro to the newly created post of president. The longtime exec has been chief content officer at IMG since 2014, when he arrived after being CEO of dick clark productions. During his time at Endeavor, he has helped to…

Mark Shapiro and Ioris Francini have been named Co-Presidents of WME | IMG. Shapiro previously served as Chief Content Officer and Francini had been President of IMG Media. As Co-Presidents, Shapiro and Francini will oversee the company's media, events, fashion (including IMG Models, Art + Commerce, and The Wall…