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...Allen & Overy has created an artificial intelligence contract negotiation tool....
...Take a break from the news FT senior business writer Andrew Hill selects his must-read business books of 2023 — including Bethany Allen’s Beijing Rules, an eye-opening chronicle of the multiple ways in...
...The London law firm Allen & Overy is merging with New York’s Shearman & Sterling to form a practice with combined revenues of about $3.4bn....
...Equity partners at Allen & Overy and Linklaters saw their share of profits fall in the most recent financial year while Clifford Chance’s profit per equity partner was flat....
...Law: Read the profile of the Belgian-born leader of Allen & Overy who is the driving force behind one of the largest mergers ever seen in the legal industry....
...The Trump Organization faces a fine of up to $1.6mn and sentencing for Allen Weisselberg, the business’s former chief financial officer and a key witness for the prosecution, has been set for January 13....
...Paul Allen’s art collection fetches record $1.5bn at auction Artwork amassed by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has broken the sales record for a single collection, fetching $1.5bn at a Christie...
...Job moves Shearman & Sterling’s chief commercial officer Robert Brown has joined Sheppard Mullin as chief operating officer ahead of its $3.4bn merger with UK firm Allen & Overy....
...Critics say Angelo Gordon is simply being too cute-by-a-half by asserting a difference in Revlon and Serta transactions....
...Paul Allen had much more art than Christie’s could offer in its recent two-day sale and works will continue to creep on to the market....
...The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty to hiding $1.76mn from tax authorities in August....
...Jeffrey Allen Bell, Kirkland, Washington, US “Even pre WWII and almost post WWII there were direct contacts. It is imperative to do it now.”...
...Days earlier, TPG struck a $2.7bn deal to buy privately held distressed debt giant Angelo Gordon, underscoring a wave of consolidation in private markets....
...When not ensconced at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other Beat luminaries would roam or write on Mount Tam’s slopes....
...“I’m not afraid of death,” Woody Allen once wrote, “I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Some Conservative MPs feel the same way about the next general election....
...He joins from Allen & Overy. Jeremy Balkin, JPMorgan’s global head of innovation and corporate development for payments, is leaving the bank to pursue a new fintech venture....
...Belinda Allen, senior economist at Commonwealth Bank, said: “Unlike other central banks where a recession is required to bring inflation down, the RBA remains committed to lifting interest rates but still...
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...Brown’s music offers a smorgasbord of pastiche from Sondheim to rock anthem to Flanagan and Allen — and there are enough quick-fire gags to bounce us along....
...The head of the joint venture, Allen Wu, has launched a third legal case against Arm China. 2....
...British Land leased more than 700,000 sq ft of space to three blue-chip firms in the period: estate agency JLL, law firm Allen & Overy and Meta, Facebook’s parent company....
...“He sparkled in company,” said John Allen, his biographer — but it was all without artifice. “Who he was publicly was exactly who he was in private.”...
...Ironically, it was a Labour prime minister and his chancellor — Tony Blair and Gordon Brown — who promoted the “light regulatory touch” that encouraged money from across the world to pour into London....
...Norse America: The Story of a Founding Mythby Gordon Campbell, Oxford University Press £20 The idea that the Vikings preceded Christopher Columbus in “discovering America” became widespread in the US in...
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