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...Eleanor Shanks has been appointed head of international private equity at Herbert Smith Freehills in London. She was previously a partner at Sidley Austin....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...In August 2019, SoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son and his top lieutenant Rajeev Misra had been holding meetings in the commercial centre of Jeddah when they were invited to visit Yasir al-Rumayyan in...
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Our resident capital markets expert Rob Smith’s memorable interview with short-seller Carson Block — watch it back here....
...Gary Goldberg and Christine O’Reilly will replace her in the roles at BHP, respectively....
...Shearman & Sterling has hired Philip Cheveley as an M&A partner in London. He joins from Travers Smith. Goodwin has hired Hugh O’Sullivan as a partner in its private equity practice....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...King & Spalding has added Stephen O’Neal as a partner to its construction disputes and international arbitration practice in San Francisco. O’Neal joins from Jones Day....
...They were both previously at Reed Smith. Jeffery Norton has rejoined O'Melveny & Myers in the corporate finance practice in New York from Dechert where he was a partner....
...for a full-throated defence of its indefensible track record,” DE Shaw managing directors Edwin Jager and Michael O’Mary said in a letter to the company’s board....
...Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a grandson of the late King Abdulaziz, and Kevin McCabe, an English property developer and boyhood fan — each with a 50 per cent stake — have been locked...
...(We aren’t holding our breath for a 2021 IPO as Saudi government officials claim will happen.) Yasir al-Rumayyan, who runs the PIF on behalf of Prince Mohammed, described the deal as“a win-win-win”....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...To get a sense of the scale, read the deep dive from DD’s Rob Smith and the FT investigation team’s Cynthia O’Murchu here....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Worse, had Dish deemed Viacom dispensable, Dish peers such as Comcast and AT&T might have been tempted to dump MTV et al as well....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...Are Moody’s et al miffed? Apparently not (yet). Hardwick says they’ve been having discussions about displaying traditional ratings information alongside the newly-liberated counterparty info....
...The group’s explanation is that the deals have been struck between the bankers and a Georgia-registered banking subsidiary. Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company....
...A Terry O’Neill image of Bowie from the Young Americans period appeared in the inspiration book left on the seats at Phoebe Philo’s Céline show this season....
...In 2007 Hufbauer et al. completed the third edition of their landmark study, looking at 204 “sanctions episodes” from the First World War through to 2006....
...Among the early bidders are a Chinese sports entrepreneur, Kenneth Huang, who claims to have the backing of his government; and the Kuwait-based al-Kharafi family.Related link: Liverpool FC auction draws...
...Istithmar has assets across the world, from New York retailer Barney’s to the V&A Waterfront, a retail and property development in South Africa....
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