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SoftBank’s Nuclear Option Puts the 'You' Back In to WeWork
Everyone would be hurt if Masayoshi Son’s showdown with Adam Neumann reopens this debacle.
Never missing an opportunity to gain an edge in a deal.
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WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s past shenanigans are catching up with him, and SoftBank Group Corp. seems delighted.
Probes by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have given SoftBank an excuse to go back and renegotiate a deal with existing shareholders of The We Company, of which Neumann was among the largest, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News reported late Tuesday.