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...Following deals like Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s purchase of Wm Morrison and the takeover of G4S, US dealmakers continue to ramp up their shopping spree in the UK....
...Francisco Partners has hired Ashley Evans as a partner focusing on software investments. She was a managing director at Carlyle Group....
...Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group said it instructed brokers to spend up to £60m on share buybacks ahead of the retailer entering its closed period for full-year results....
...Minneapolis resident Ashley Flanigan, 29, said that Floyd’s death had opened people’s eyes to racial injustice. “George Floyd didn’t die in vain,” she added....
...Ashley Hurst, a lawyer at Osborne Clarke said the Morrisons ruling was “a great result for employers” and would be “welcome relief to employers in light of the increased risks of data liability that they...
...Morrison & Foerster has hired Mitchell Presser as a co-chair of the firm’s global corporate department in New York with a focus on M&A and private equity. Presser left Freshfields last week....
...But he clashed repeatedly with chairman Ken Morrison and retired in 2006....
...Now is not the time for founder Mike Ashley and Tim Martin, Brexiter founder of JD Wetherspoon, to default to their anti-establishment braggadocio....
...“It’s disappointing to see Scott Morrison agree to send Australian forces to an entirely avoidable engagement in the Strait of Hormuz,” said Ashley Townshend, director of foreign policy and defence at the...
...Arnold & Porter has hired Jonathan Levine as a partner from rival Morrison & Foerster. Levine will join the law firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice in New York....
...FT) Jeremy Corbyn targets millionaires The Labour leader will launch his general election campaign with a direct attack on “the privileged few”, naming the Duke of Westminster, retail billionaire Mike Ashley...
...December began with Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley warning that retailers were being “smashed to bits” and ended with entertainment chain HMV going into administration....
...But Ashley Highfield will not be there to see if these can lift the group’s fortunes....
...Adam Hankiss, Ashley Arons, and Egbert de Groot have also been hired from Morrison, while Natascha Kiernan joins from Skadden....
...Rachel Morrison, who also worked on Black Panther, was the first woman to be nominated for cinematography for Mudbound....
...On the other side of the Debenhams trade is Sports Direct, controlled by the billionaire Mike Ashley, which has built up a 21 per cent voting interest in the company as its value has fallen, along with other...
...Mike Ashley, chief executive of Sports Direct has hailed a “spectacular trading performance”, which appears to have delivered a 67.3 per cent drop in reported half-year profit....
...Last year, that was bad news for Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Iceland. But it bodes well for all of them, bar Asda, this time round....
...Morrisons, the UK supermarket chain, is returning to the index as part of the reshuffle....
...“Sports Direct has nothing to hide,” Mr Ashley said in the letters. Mr Ashley, who had been resisting a parliamentary invitation since March, has now confirmed he will answer MPs’ questions....
...Some shareholders have become increasingly disillusioned with the way Mr Ashley, who is deputy chairman and owns 55 per cent of the shares, runs the group....
...Ashley Highfield, chief executive of Johnston Press, says he is “not expecting any miracles on print advertising”....
...Tidjane Thiam stepped down from Prudential, while Dalton Philips was forced out of Wm Morrison....
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