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...“So I’m not going to spend the rest of my life continuing to be CEO of a bank.”...
...“I’m not a fan of just unleashing inappropriate amounts of risk-taking,” Quinn added....
...Evercore was initially set up like Blackstone, to advise on M&A and execute private equity buyouts. The LBO investing business was an expensive bust. But the M&A group proved more promising....
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...We get that Franklin needs to revamp itself. Despite a spate of aggressive M&A swelling its assets to $1.4tn, its share price has sagged over the past decade, giving it a current market cap of $13.6bn....
...“What’s happening now — it’s like the movie Network, where the main character says ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore’,” says Gene Ludwig, a former Comptroller of the Currency and...
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...He worked closely with Adam Neumann when WeWork was struggling to win over investors, and has worked closely with buyers and sellers in tense M&A situations....
...“Steve’s a very careful investor, and I’m assuming that he did his homework,” Wilbur Ross, a private equity investor who worked with Mnuchin in Trump’s cabinet, told the FT....
...Discover less so,” said one bank M&A lawyer. “Part of this is regulators having Capital One solve a problem for them.”...
...I’m Benjamin Zephaniah. You are wonderful. Bye.”...
...“Based on the evidence we see — our building M&A and IPO pipelines, improving boardroom confidence, and an increasingly positive tone from our retail and institutional clients — we remain constructive on...
...Josh Franklin I’m thrilled to hear that. Thank you. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos That’s the show. Thank you for listening to Life and Art from FT weekend....
...Joshua Franklin Exactly. Stephen Gandel Right....
...“I’m hopeful that folks have included that analysis because if banks are saying it’s really hurting the real economy, but they’re providing increases in their share buybacks, I would suggest that there’s...
...Nachmann said that the “disadvantage” of its investment bank’s strong position, it ranks top in M&A advisory, was that it runs more sales processes than its rivals, in which its private equity team cannot...
...Josep M Colomer Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, US...
...“I’m interested in people that are trapped, black, white, whatever race: that is what attracts me . . . the trap that we are all in and how we try to get out of it, how we survive and the effects of that...
...“If we’re stuck with ‘Well, I’m white and I don’t want to be made to feel bad’, that is really a non-starter,” he says....
...“I’m certainly going to make sure that we have an organisation, particularly from the finance perspective, that has a robust set of processes, procedures, compliance that we can be in a position if [an IPO...
...“Antitrust is probably the biggest dampener [on M&A],” said Jefferies’ Friedman, “and that is only applicable to a small number of categories. The positive forces overwhelm that.”...
...I don’t know what became of those companies, but I’m assuming it wasn’t good, and that it took less than five years....
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