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...Almost by accident, the Texan billionaire had become the owner of an 80-year-old hotel at the south-east corner of Central Park....
...HK and other dissident shareholders want Eric Oliver, the head of Texas-based hedge fund SoftVest Advisors, to fill the vacancy. Here’s his pitch....
...Even ardent defenders of the IMF say Ms Lagarde is facing an uphill struggle as she tries to conclude this fundraising round by next year....
...Mr Yesilhark was among a team of four that joined Carmignac in January 2014 following the closure of SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund in London, part of Carmignac’s expansion plans in the UK....
...Executives and advisors will launch the tour on Monday with a luncheon in the rooftop ballroom of the St Regis Hotel off New York’s Fifth Avenue, signalling bankers’ efforts to pitch Ferrari not as an ordinary...
...Daniel Masters, ex-husband of Blythe, complained last year that his Global Advisors Jersey Limited, which manages a regulated bitcoin investment fund, had been cut off by HSBC....
...Immediately after leaving the private briefing to investigators, Mr Ross met Mr Martoma in the hotel’s lobby and told him the drug failed but he was hopeful it might still help patients....
...Wild nights appear mandatory – unsurprising given Salt is held at the Bellagio, the showy hotel and casino on the Vegas strip famed for its dancing fountains....
...On Monday, Blackstone-backed hotel chain Hilton Worldwide said it would seek to raise up to $2.4bn in what would be the largest ever IPO by a hotel operator....
...“Management enters the public market with something to prove,” said Michael Knott, an analyst with Green Street Advisors....
.../PRNewswire/ — Morgans Hotel Group Co....
...Venice hotel too....
...Mirror feels the hacking heat - Beauty brands put a wrinkle in Tesco’s plans to rival Amazon - RBS transfers 15 million policies in insurer merger - Hilton Worldwide to be China’s official hotel...
...On Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the four-star Aloft Hotel – and its hip WXYZ bar – opened in January, the first new Harlem hotel in 45 years....
...Go long clipboards and rural Chinese hotels. Related links: Sino-Forest coverage – FT Tilt Pile of crap: suspending coverage – FT Alphaville Sino-Forest postpones tour of its forestry assets – Reuters...
...In a recent letter to the senior managers of its portfolio companies, DIC said it had spent $300m on supporting its troubled European investments, such as hotel chain Travelodge, diagnostics group Alliance...
...Most of the hotels, yes, maybe the rates have dropped a little bit, especially last year, but the occupancy remained at a very higher number....
...Blackstone’s private equity arm recently closed the benchmark liability management exercise for hotel-backed CMBS when it restructured USD 20bn of Hilton Hotels debt....
...“So the name of the game is to buy, renovate and reposition,” says Joseph Toy, president and CEO of the hotel-consulting company Hospitality Advisors, based in Honolulu....
...Enoc’s advisors are Standard Chartered and Goodbody stockbrokers. HSBC and Davy, which is broker to Dragon, are advising the independent directors, who back the deal....
...Our book found an audience among Obama advisors but has also been touted by Conservative leader David Cameron....
...) for the bottom-rung Superior – I want service, whether a hotel is hip or not....
...Steven Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital and an ardent collector, recently undertook to buy a Picasso from casino operator Steve Wynn, reportedly for $139m, although the sale was cancelled after Mr Wynn...
...Colony Capital owns gambling resorts and hotels, including the Atlantic City and Las Vegas Hiltons....
...Bear, Stearns and Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisors to Blackstone on acquisition of MeriStar. Lehman Brothers acted as financial advisor to MeriStar....
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