Hints and tips:
...US megadeals are slowly bringing M&A action back If a UK paper and packaging company is at the centre of a bidding war, then M&A must be back....
...M&A lawyer Jon Bowden has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a partner in Singapore. He joins from White & Case....
...I’m sure those institutions right now are embarrassed....
...“It’s like the greatest M&A advisory business.” Apollo instead opts to buy cheaply and in bulk....
...BNP Paribas has hired Apoorva Shah, Nomura’s former head of Asian M&A, to lead its UK business....
...The high prices have helped fuel a rise in oil drilling activity, especially in the US. The number of rigs drilling for oil in the US has risen to 548, up about 60 per cent over the past year....
...And in the end, I’m confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time, freedom of speech,” Trump said....
...J Sainsbury is taking the opposite approach. Britain’s second biggest supermarket raised its full-year profit target in an unscheduled trading update....
...Alongside corporate CEOs from Accenture’s Julie Sweet to Mastercard’s Ajay Banga, there are big-name M&A lawyers including Paul Weiss’ Brad Karp and Cravath’s Faiza Saeed and well-known dealmakers such as...
...(Current owner Walmart, blocked by regulators from selling it to rival J Sainsbury last year, wants out and is running out of options.)...
...He said: “M&A never dies. It dies for a couple months.”...
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@FT.com So much for M&A being dead Megadeals are acting a bit like London buses....
...Letter in response to this article: Lowering the tone / From J M L Stone, London W1, UK...
...King & Wood Mallesons has hired Jake Robson as an M&A partner in its Singapore office. Robson was formerly at Morrison & Foerster....
...Victoria Rosamond has rejoined White & Case’s New York office as a partner in its M&A practice. She was previously at Katten Muchin Rosenman....
...(FT) Job moves White & Case has hired Nirangjan Nagarajah as a new partner in Melbourne in its M&A practice. He joins from Gilbert + Tobin....
...That’s why I’m so confident that we in the UK can get to net zero carbon by 2050, and we are going to do it through technology,” he said....
...A flurry of deals saw J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam and Grey added to WPP’s portfolio. Other companies, such as the media buying giant GroupM, were created in-house....
...Don’t be fooled by the ancient rivers and cloud-swathed peaks: Thomas Cole’s American landscapes are no more timeless than an “I’m With Her” button....
...“ELDs seem to think they know when I’m tired,” says the 66-year-old driver from Texas, smoking a cigarette during his 10-hour break....
...Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
...Geltzeiler, consultant for Temasek Holdings.Stephen J. Girsky, Managing Partner of VectoIQ, an independent advisory firm.David G. Golden, Managing Partner at Revolution Ventures.Veronica M....
...He said in a note that the buybacks were a “positive signal that (Anadarko) remains focused on creating value not just through the drill bit and reserve and production growth or M&A at any price”....
...But that's what I'm seeing on the ground....
...government is very sensitive to having the renminbi shorted and considers it some kind of national disgrace to have foreign funds be able to outflank them,” notes Anne Stevenson-Yang, director of research at J...
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