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...All 50 US states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, signed on to the agreement with Google....
...Henry Cheng’s acquisition of the company was “brilliant move number one”, says James McBride, CEO of Nihi hotels and an industry doyen of almost 40 years....
...News round-up UBS sounds out investors over first AT1 sale since Credit Suisse rescue (FT) Marcelo Claure’s Latin America fund makes first investment (FT) Cayman Islands to open Singapore office to lure...
...Black met Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s, around the time Epstein was buying Little St James, the private island where he later held dozens of girls in sexual servitude....
...She was previously assistant director of DEI at Skadden Arps....
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...The hedge fund titan Jim Chanos, also known as “Darth Vader of Wall Street” and the “LeBron James of short selling”, would agree....
...The other, James Zelter, is a decade older, and joined from Citigroup in 2006. He has focused on the firm’s burgeoning credit business....
...The recent wavering and volatility in global stock markets driven by the spread of the virus is likely to complicate dealmaking, according to Paul Schnell, a partner at law firm Skadden Arps....
...The island is also dominated by a group of conglomerates and powerful property developers who are quite happy with the status quo....
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Mark Vandevelde interviewed the billionaire investor, who once flew his private jet to his native Puerto Rico filled with supplies after a hurricane devastated the island....
...(FT) Big Tech’s top threat David Cicilline, a Democratic representative of the state of Rhode Island, has become the bête noire of Amazon, Google and Facebook since becoming chairman of the subcommittee...
...Interestingly, Skadden Arps — the law firm that helped defend Gucci back then — is now working with LVMH....
...Two corporate partners at Allen & Overy have departed for Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom....
...A major part of the success story has been recruitment of hotshots such as David Fox, a specialist in public company M&A and one of the biggest earners at Skadden, Arps, who jumped ship to Kirkland in 2009...
...For what it’s worth, Jamie rated the island a buy. More here....
...Before that, she held various positions at Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Citi Private Bank has made three new hires....
...James Rockas, Mr Ross’s press secretary, said in a statement that the holding would not conflict with government duties on trade and industry, it reported....
...“They are definitely respected and companies do pay attention when one of these ‘sons of activists’ shows up at their doorstep,” says Rich Grossman, a partner at New York law firm Skadden Arps, which defends...
...It claims debt levels are high for a business where customer loyalty and average revenue per subscriber (ARPS) is low. One of the main analytical claims made by Gotham is to recalculate ARPS....
...The yacht, which once featured in the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, was originally built for the Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi....
...They include Alan Hartman, a Harvard lawyer who practised at transaction-focused law firm Skadden Arps and later rose to become head of Americas M&A at BofA....
...In September, it bought gourmet jerky maker Golden Island for $35m....
...Centerview Partners and Goldman Sachs advised Hillshire, with legal advice from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom....
...stock. 888 on Monday also announced that it was poised to launch an online poker operation in Nevada after agreeing a deal with Treasure Island, a Las Vegas gaming group....
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