Josh Kosman
Background
Josh Kosman has be𓄧en a New York Post business reporter for 13 years. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, Josh has regularly broken news on major stories including Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and upheaval at the Subway fast-food franchise. He wrote the 2009 expose "The Buyout of America𓄧" for Penguin Publishing. When he was in college, Kosman gave sports updates on Dr. Dre's hip-hop radio show, where he met rappers including Flavor Flav.
Latest Articles
Sphere will spend $80M to bring classic film to high-tech Vegas arena: sou🐻rces ꦿ
The state-of-the-art concert venue, with its unparalleled visuals and haptic seating🧔, is nearing a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to adapt the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" for a...
Tampa Bay Rays' fire sale of top players sparked after busted deal to sell team: source
A lead investor who was going to scoop up a 35% stake in the team dropped༒ out and plans for a deep-pocket🌠ed buyer worth about $10 billion to step in...
Billionaire Bill Ackm𓆏an delays IPO for Pershing Square USA
A s𒉰ource close to the situat🥃ion told The Post that IPO could go live at the end of next week.
💦 Beyoncé, Sphere end residency talks ⭕-- but singer could land at this Sin City venue: sources
The sticking point turned out to be Beyonce's demand for the Sphere to go dark for two weeks so that she can rehear𒊎se, sources close to the situation said.
Key Paramount investor says he 'may not sell stock' in proposed Skydance merger: 'We are on hold'
Earli🌜er this week, heiress Shari Redstone surprised media insiders with her announcement that she was accepting a merger proposal from Sk🦹ydance.
The Golden State Warriors are slipping in value -- and here's why
The value of the Golden State Warriors is sinking faster than🦩 a Steph Curry jump shot. An 🌄attempt to sell a minority stake in the team, the NBA's most successful...
Sharꦉi Redstone reaches preliminary deal to sell controlling stake in Paramount to Skydance Media for $1.75B
The media heiress reached a preliminary agreement to sell her controlling stake💜 in Paramount Global to Skydance Media – just weeks after she walked away from a deal between ꦅthe two...
Paramount mulls $1.7B offer t⛎o sell BET to its CEO and NYC private equity firm: rep𒀰ort
Scott Mills is teaming up with Ch🏅inh Chu, th🐭e head of CC Capital, in a bid for BET, according to Bloomberg News.
Here's what the Koch family's 15% stake in Nets values for: source
𓆉 The Koch family’s deal f🐟or a 15% stake in Brooklyn Nets parent BSE Global values the struggling NBA franchise at $3.8 billion – and puts the valuation for the parent...
NY Giants 'helmet catch' hero blows nearly $500K after failed juice store venture
He should have passed on this deal. New York Gia🐷nts Super Bowl hero David Tyree says he plowed nearly $500,000 in a botched investment in a healthy juice franchise --...
Wall Street bankers, lawyers losing out on hundreds of millions in fees after Paramount's scrapped merger: sources
Wall Street bankers and white-shoe law firms are losing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in fees 💟after Shari Redstone this week made a last-minute decision to scrap plans...
Legal threat was 'major factor' in collapse of Paramount's $8B deal with Skydance
A legal threat from investor Mario Gabelli was a "major factor" in this week's implo🦩sion of Shari Redstone's deal to merge Paramount Global with Skydance Mediꩵa.
Be𒀰hind the Nets ownership decision that drastically altered the NBA
Pagliuca — born in New York and raised in New Jersey — almost teame💧d up with Joe Tsai to buy the Nets from Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov in 2017.
Michael Bloomberg joi𝓰ns Marc Lore, A-Rod in bid to buy Ti🌊mberwolves
Lore and Rodriguez are locked in a battle with current T-Wolves majority owner Glenಞ Taylor over control over the team.
How Live Nation and veteran music mogul clinched Dead & Company's lucrative Las Vegas residency -- despite heat from the DOJ
Live Nation and its ex-chairman, the veteran music mogul Irving Azoff, have quietly secured an iron grip over the lucrative Las Vegas residency of Dead & Company -- even as... 🍰
Paramount Global shares drop afte🎃r annual meeting as hopes of merger with ꦑSkydance fade
Paramount Global executives revealed a plan to slash costs a𝔉nd find a partner for its streaming service -- but shares fell nearly 5% Tuesday as hopes of a merger with...
KKR hires Andrew Lustgarten, ex-CEO of♕ MSG Sports🧜, to drum up business for Edge observation deck
Private⛎ equity giant KKR is bringing in James Dola🔯n’s former right-hand man to attract more visitors to Hudson Yards’ Edge observation deck.
NYC lawmaker blocks Steve Cohen's $8B casino project by Mets' Citi Field
Steve Cohen’s Mets are losers — and so is apparently his Queens casin✨o bid, at least for now.
J.Lo's deal for $1M-per-show Vegas residency in jeopardy as new album, concert tour flop: source
The embattled pop diva -- whose hea⛎dline-grabbing marriage to Ben Affleck is reportedly crumbling -- recently had been in talks with MGM Grand on a guaranteed $1 million a show... ꧋
Sports Illustrated fails to deliver May issue after breakup 🔥with publisher: sources
Sports Illustrated’s tumultuous breakup with its publisher caused the magazine to skip production of the May e🎉dition – leaving more than 1 million subscribers with empty mailboxes last month, The...