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...Activision’s decision to bring in Pannick, widely seen as one of the top barristers of his generation with former clients including Queen Elizabeth II, is a sign of how seriously it is taking the threat...
...The junior market did not suffer the same squeeze on trading as when City research budgets were cut following the Mifid II reforms....
...Avid Bioservices, a small-cap company that helps develop and manufacture drugs for pharmaceutical companies, filed this with the SEC yesterday: On February 29, 2024, Avid Bioservices, Inc....
...Berkshire had struck a deal about six years ago to acquire an interest in Pilot Travel Centers, founded by billionaire James “Big Jim” Haslam II, patriarch of a powerful Tennessee family....
...The Luxembourg-domiciled Xtrackers II Target Maturity Ucits ETFs, which aim to make regular quarterly payouts to investors and are liquidated at the end of their term, are available with fixed durations...
David Attenborough narrates a further chapter of the natural world’s marvels and terrible man-made environmental damage
...It would have been sacrilegious to sell special rights to jump the long queue to witness Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state last year....
...Zombies aren’t real, part II We wrote yesterday about fears of a corporate zombie apocalypse — the idea that legions of half-dead companies kept alive by easy money will soon die off en masse, killed off...
...As the tribunal decision summarised it: Walkers contend that the products should be zero-rated for VAT purposes on the basis that they fall within Item 1 of Group 1 of Part II to Schedule 8 VAT, being “...
...The deal will put Blade into business with Pierre and Andrea Casiraghi, nephews of Monaco’s Prince Albert II, who are shareholders of Monacair alongside Elkann, who runs Italy’s Exor....
...unusual in that it generated persistent uncertainty,” they wrote, differentiating the UK’s decision to leave the EU from other big, one-off shocks such as “the 1973 Opec oil price shock, Gulf Wars I or II...
...But it has been filleted for news lines — such as Musk playing with Ukraine’s wartime communications access as if it’s a game of Civilization II — which for the casual reader is unfortunate....
...measure of customer spending which excludes revenue deferrals related to online services — for the December quarter, thanks to record sales and engagement in the latest Call of Duty launch, Modern Warfare II...
...This just hit BusinessWire: WeWork Inc....
...After raising private capital from blue-chip Silicon Valley funds including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Accel, Bird merged with blank-cheque company Switchback II in November last year at an initial...
...This is more than the market value of Switchback II Corporation, the special acquisition company with which it went public via a reverse merger....
...II” (1930) sold for $48mn ($51mn with fees, estimate $50mn). Mondrian’s previous auction high was a fee-inclusive $50.6mn....
...and contemporary art include a small Alberto Giacometti editioned bronze of his wife and model Annette, priced at €1.45mn (c1953-54, Kamel Mennour), Robert Motherwell’s France-appropriate “Je t’aime No II...
...Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, has died. The Queen was so much more than a head of state — she was quintessential Britain....
...There’s also the complication that Mifid II changed incentives both for analysts and IB clients, meaning the period after 2018 might not be directly comparable with what came before. Still....
...As Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc, puts it: “The monarchy is one thing the Americans don’t have.”...
...Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the FT will be regularly updating our readers with the latest developments. You can follow our latest coverage here....
Nevermind the Queen’s platinum anniversary, another epoch-defining figure is turning 15
...He was a semi-finalist for the LVMH Prize in 2021, and this year won the International Woolmark Prize and the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design in the same week....
...Mark Hodges, the former chief of Aviva UK and British Gas and current chair of insurer RSA, has been named chair of MAC II — the latest acquisition company in the UK by London-based sponsor Marwyn....
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