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...A new crop of IPO candidates in CVC, General Atlantic and L Catterton may test the waters of public markets in 2024, while BlackRock continues to hunt for its “transformative” private capital deal....
...A valuation topping $9bn would mark an impressive outcome for L Catterton, which is backed by the French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...The declines are a setback for Birkenstock and its private equity owner L Catterton, the firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...German shoemaker Birkenstock’s IPO, meanwhile, could be valued above $8bn — unlocking a big return for its owner L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...Inspired by the 18th-century bronze and ceramic candelabras flanking the hall’s entrance, the works have tentacle-like forms in green, pink and yellow hues that reflect the colour palette of the trompe l’...
...loan over $4bn to struggling buyout firms (Bloomberg) PayPal: M&A plans will be hampered by weak share price (Lex) Russian court bans UBS, Credit Suisse from subsidiary disposals (Reuters) Departing L&...
...News round-up L’Oreal on the lookout for further acquisitions after Aesop, says chief (FT) BNP Paribas faces US fine over messaging violations (FT) Barclays shares slide after earnings reflect fading...
...It’s another sign of the eye-watering prices buyers are willing to pay for top-shelf beauty brands, after L’Oréal shelled out $2.5bn for minimalist soap maker Aesop in April....
...Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, to May 29, musee-orangerie.frMusée Matisse, Nice, June 23-September 24, musee-matisse-nice.org...
...UBS has hired three Barclays bankers in New York, according to a memo seen by DD: Marco Valla joins as global banking co-head (his predecessor Ros L’Esperance will launch a senior advisory group within the...
...Job moves Kim Kardashian’s private equity firm SKKY Partners has made new hires including Apollo alum Kaitlin May as chief operating officer and L Catterton’s Brittany Serafino and Bain Capital’s Zachary...
...She would photograph mushrooms and pebbles, bright pink desserts, the splayed fronds of fern leaves and traffic cones cheerily touting flags, isolating their particular forms, textures and colours with her...
...News round-up EY came close to uncovering Wirecard fraud in 2016 (FT) Perella Weinberg suspends London-based banker after insider trading probe (FT) LVMH, L’Oréal among suitors for stake in Aesop (Bloomberg...
...And my Vanilla Bean is a trompe-l’oeil pastry that you cut into to reveal a variety of textures....
...LVMH-backed private equity group L Catterton has hired Ian Friedman as a partner and managing director in its growth fund. He was previously co-head of Goldman Sachs’ growth equity team....
...A bulky cone, squeezed too early into its end point, the opening sentence a death sentence....
...Odey famously used the Italian proverb il mattino ha l’oro in bocca, meaning “the morning has gold in its mouth”, to describe the feeling of winning. Better check that it’s not a pound coin instead....
...On the outer wall are sculpted friezes of ox heads and garlands — pine cones and bunches of grapes — signifying sacrifices. Later, I notice those same pagan motifs on the Renaissance cathedral facade....
...minefield involving one of Italy’s wealthiest dynasties, a Spanish football tycoon and one of London’s most powerful hedge fund managers to buy a stake in Italy’s main toll road operator, Autostrade per l’...
...involving the Benetton retail dynasty, the Real Madrid football tycoon Florentino Pérez and the billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn to buy a stake in Italy’s main toll road operator, Autostrade per l’...
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...The seasonal fruit gelati includes bergamot and jasmine-scented Principe di Calabria and Regno delle Due Sicilie, made using pistachios from Bronte (the village in Sicily) known as L’oro verde (green gold...
...be paused on new evidence disclosure (FT) Boots in store for $10-bn sale as bid deadline looms (Reuters) Ken Griffin’s Citadel is pulling back most of Its $2bn Melvin Capital investment (Bloomberg) L...
...designed by Martin Brudnizki (the Oetker Collection, owners of the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, now manages the hotel), but the young French beach crew still jump around handing out frozés in paper cones...
...Most poignant are Francesca Woodman’s photographs of her body obscured by blurs of slow exposure, charting adolescent introspection and also awakening politics: their title is “A Woman, A Mirror: A Woman...
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