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...Richard (Robert Lindsay) is a pioneering doctor, loved and lauded by many because of his innovations in IVF treatment....
...Shearman & Sterling has hired Michael Mountain as a partner in its M&A practice in London. He was previously a partner at law firm White & Case....
...“Revolut finds nothing strange in insisting that a UK citizen, to whom it provided a sterling account in the UK, has to open a euro account to receive cleared, uncontested sterling and rand that Revolut...
...Lindsay Owens, acting executive director at Groundwork Collaborative, a liberal think-tank, said Democrats were “excited to do more” on top of the stimulus plan....
...Chart du jour: shooting up Sterling is proving an unlikely beneficiary of the UK’s vaccine rollout, hitting its highest level against the dollar in three years after almost 5m Brits had their first dose...
...Sterling Partners, the investment vehicle of owner Fred Wilpon, is negotiating a deal whereby Mr Cohen would increase his investment in the Mets, the team confirmed on Wednesday....
...Comments made by BoE officials often move sterling and gilt prices so having a start of a few seconds can allow traders to pre-empt the rest of the market....
...Some of the stability in the sterling-dollar exchange rate, however, is a mirage....
...He joins from Shearman & Sterling. Mayer Brown has hired Aimee Sharman as a partner in its banking and finance practice in London. She joins from Hogan Lovells....
...The Wilpons own the Mets through a vehicle called Sterling Partners after they assumed control back in 2002 when they bought out the publishing company Doubleday....
...Investors were concerned about Brexit (though some agreed that sterling is very cheap) and the mushrooming of negative rates....
...Lindsay says the plum spots for flats are the mansion blocks on Prince Albert Road, overlooking the northern side of Regent’s Park....
...He joins from Shearman & Sterling. Campbell Soup has named Mick Beekhuizen as its new chief financial officer starting at the end of September....
...Shearman & Sterling has hired John Beahn as a partner from DLA Piper. Beahn will bolster the firm’s Cfius practice....
...Additional reporting by Katie Martin and Lindsay Fortado laurence.fletcher@ft.com...
...The threat of a no-deal Brexit and fluctuations in the price of sterling didn’t help matters....
...Then, consider the plunge in sterling, the once mighty UK currency which these days is more accurately referred to as the Great British Peso....
...This is Sterling Partners’ version....
...The buyout fund, which invests in euros, could have even more firepower if sterling slides significantly on the back of political instability in Britain....
...Javier Espinoza reports back that the industry’s main concern is how to price the risks associated with a potentially disorderly UK departure from the EU, which some expect could lead to a massive flux in sterling...
...Latham & Watkins has added its fourth M&A and private equity partner this year with Rob Katz joining the law firm from Shearman & Sterling....
...The London-based private investment firm doesn’t exactly have a sterling reputation when it comes to saving damsels in distress....
UK Treasury questions whether mix of eight coins and four banknotes ‘meet current and future needs’
...The K and the R of KKR clearly had their differences over Brexit, with Roberts optimistic that a hard Brexit and a weakened sterling would create opportunities for PE....
...He was at Shearman & Sterling, where he was an M&A partner based in Tokyo. HSBC has hired Anna Tavano to head its global banking business in Italy....
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