Hints and tips:
...Herb Allen, the president of Allen & Co, the PGA Tour’s adviser, is set to tee off on Pebble Beach on Thursday morning....
...Because of the Allen sale, Christie’s had the greatest fall at auction, of 30 per cent....
...VMware’s existing owners Michael Dell and US technology private equity group Silver Lake, who stand to get billions in cash once (and if) the ink dries, will also be watching with bated breath....
...Allen & Overy thinks it can do one better....
...Marcus Allen, founder, The Society Archive There’s a great place here in New York called Stock Vintage that has a lot of Big Mac flannels and shirts from the ’50s and ’60s....
...The gulf kingdom’s sporting ambitions are at odds with its treatment of Saudi women’s rights activists, Amnesty International’s Kate Allen told the Guardian....
...So-called secured debt deals were once a rarity in the corporate bond market, but American companies are now pawning their family silver as never before....
...It’s not just Norwegian that is putting up the family silver to see it through Covid-19....
...Dominic Long, partner at Allen & Overy, wrote: “The reforms will effectively create a new layer of UK merger control....
...It still required a modicum of effort, but when the reward was not having listen to “Maxwell's Silver Hammer” one more time, the benefit was clear....
...But many of the techniques he described to Inc. magazine in a 2008 feature were in evidence in Toronto. The rooms were cold, apparently so that people wouldn’t feel sluggish....
...Before that, he worked at Freshfields and Australian firm Allens....
...They will be joined by North Island, a private equity firm, led by Glenn Hutchins, co founder of US private equity firm Silver Lake, and Bob Greifeld, chairman of Nasdaq....
...Back in New York, there are few names who could step into Proenza Schouler’s silver-tipped shoes....
...Additional reporting by James Allen in Monza...
...Dinner parties would end with a tour of his collections of silver, porcelain and engravings, much of it inherited from his family, which made its fortune running department stores in Chicago....
...Morita, with his trademark silver hair, was also an avid and at times controversial spokesman for Japanese business, criticising what he called the US industry’s preoccupation with short-term profit....
...The move is Quintain’s first step towards developing “a rental product with critical mass” over the next five to 10 years, said chief executive Maxwell James....
...Poor relations with neighbouring Argentina hardly help matters (although there are some silver linings: Argentina’s energy crisis has led to a tenfold increase in purchases of electricity from Uruguay compared...
...Last year, Maurice Lévy, 73, the silver-haired CEO of Publicis, WPP’s French rival, said that he would not miss Sorrell when he retired....
...Microsoft is also considering bidding for Yahoo, as is Silver Lake Partners, Providence Equity Partners and Hellman & Friedman....
...Both firms belong to the so-called magic circle, an elite cadre of international firms that includes Allen & Overy and Linklaters....
...Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co are advising Yahoo in considering its overall options. But other advisers, including UBS, are exploring how the company could sell its Japanese stake....
...The moves are likely to focus attention on Nomura’s plans for Instinet, which it bought for $1.2bn (£730bn) in 2007 from Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity group....
...He rummages through medical records and comparative wage rates, measured by silver. Parts of the argument remain unresolved, and he admits it....
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