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...Blackstone — whose property and corporate debt funds, Breit and BCRED, manage nearly $200bn in gross assets — remains by far the leader in private capital retail offerings....
...This is perhaps evident in Lemkau’s replacement. Jim Esposito, currently co-head of the global securities division, will take his spot....
...Houlihan Lokey has hired Shea Goggin as a managing director to run its US private funds group from Chicago. He joins from UBS....
...This seems reasonable under the rules set out in their indentures, which say: The company shall not permit any... lien on any of their respective properties or assets... in order to secure any indebtedness...
...Crowds had gathered outside the São Paulo court where Mr Lula da Silva was due to appear into testify in an investigation into alleged underhand property dealings by his family....
...Businessmen in Qatar saw the replacement of Mr Sayed as part of the new emir’s attempts to place his own team into senior government positions....
...His replacement was announced on Thursday as Iris Knobloch, chairman of Warner Bros in France....
...Mr Hennequin’s role as chief executive will be replaced temporarily by his deputy Yann Caillière until a permanent replacement is found....
...“A New York court should not have the right to attack my property....
...After its chief executive left early last year, it took a year and a half – and one bid from Indian Hotels – to get the company to name his full-time replacement. The markets have reflected as much....
...The company also pared down its properties, selling off a 95 per cent stake in the Chicago Cubs baseball team and related assets in 2009 for $845m....
...Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questions about them....
...Carrefour confirmed Mr Duhamel was leaving the group, and said his replacement will be announced “very soon”....
...Some analysts believe that Mr Olofsson remains mainly because a suitable replacement has not yet been found and partly because he is entitled to enhanced pension benefits after his third anniversary....
...In May, Damac Properties, a Dubai-based property developer, filed an international arbitration case at the ICSID against the Egyptian government over a land row and the conviction of its chairman....
...In reality, it is probably impossible to buy the more basic computer any more; consumers have no choice but to spend £500 on a replacement model....
...Tribune filed for bankruptcy in December 2008, less than a year after it was taken private in an $8.2bn leveraged buy-out by Sam Zell, a Chicago property magnate....
...If I decide today too, I want to privatise it, or do a private replacement, or securitise it, I can do it....
...Under Aim rules, the new board has 30 days to find a replacement nomad before the company is delisted....
...The replacement of Mr bin Sulaiman with an old school government official from an established Dubai merchant family could be another signal of a back-to- basics policy....
...So it is no surprise that Mr bin Sulaiman’s replacement is Ahmed al-Tayer, an old financial hand from one of a number of influential families, who have been calling for a return to a more conservative style...
...Mr Baquet’s successor, James O’Shea, quit in January. The Times has seen its newsroom shrink from more than 1,200 a decade ago to just over 700....
...The scheme aims to bring down sharply the retail price of electric cars by making their expensive batteries the property of an infrastructure company....
...This refers to the part of the federal tax code that allows owners of an investment property to defer capital gains taxes if they reinvest the proceeds in a “like-kind” replacement property (a non-investment...
...Pamela O’Shea, an American high-end villa specialist operating out of Italy, makes the same point about changing American tastes....
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