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...Allen West, a Republican candidate in the governor’s race in Texas, fell ill with coronavirus this month....
...One critical thing to understand in all of this is the role of insurance — the supposedly sober, even sleepy, side of finance — in triggering this week’s chain of events, which the FT’s Tom Braithwaite spells...
...Allen & Overy has hired Stephen Besen as an M&A partner based in New York. He joins from Shearman & Sterling....
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe editor Photographs: Getty/AFP The Cold War: A World History , by Odd Arne Westad, Allen Lane £30/Basic Books $40, 720 pages Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation...
...In an excellent use of a blog by a government official, Julian Braithwaite the UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN and the WTO (our person in Geneva, so to speak), set out how the UK was...
...In the meantime, read this from Lex’s Tom Braithwaite: How high does a hostile takeover bid need to go?...
...With additional reporting from Tom Braithwaite in New York...
...“The negative comments about Eric were overwhelmingly about immigration,” said George Allen, a former Republican Virginia governor....
...“Nobody’s going to be happy with the final rule,” says Mr Landy at Allen & Overy....
...Three of the four outgoing directors had experience at senior levels in the financial industry, compared with only Ms Allen in the new batch....
...“It’s very pronounced against five years ago,” said Doug Landy, partner and head of the US financial services regulatory practice at law firm Allen & Overy....
...However, Douglas Landy, a partner at Allen & Overy, said the guidance remained “kind of incomprehensible”, with its “lingering threat” of applying reporting requirements before the end of the compliance...
...fresh focus comes as the SEC reorganises itself after being criticised for weak monitoring of brokers in the run-up to the financial crisis and missteps in inspecting companies run by Bernard Madoff and Allen...
...patrick.jenkins@ft.com brooke.masters@ft.com tom.braithwaite@ft.com This article was originally published on September 7 2011....
...Douglas Landy, partner at Allen & Overy, said: “People are going to look at where their staff sit, which is a very bizarre way to regulate....
...Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, by Rodric Braithwaite, Profile Books, RRP£25, 417 pages Former ambassador Braithwaite’s book is simultaneously a grim account of the Soviet Union’s costly...
...says Allen & Overy’s Mr Penn. Taxpayer anger about the 2008 rescues has also limited the options available for dealing with future crises....
...It missed the Madoff fraud, Allen Stanford’s alleged fraud and dozens of staff members were last year found to have watched pornography at work....
...The headline numbers are important but there is always a bit of a deal to be done behind closed doors,” says Bob Penn, UK partner at Allen & Overy, the law firm....
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