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...He joins from InfraRed Capital Partners. Smart reads The toxic tycoon Mike Ashley, the retail tycoon behind Sports Direct, is suing Morgan Stanley over a $1bn trading row, The Sunday Times writes....
...“Many of these retailers are sitting on real exciting treasure troves,” says Marc Brodherson, senior partner for marketing at McKinsey....
...Kidswear Collective, which launched in 2018 and now has a concession at Selfridges’ London flagship, similarly partners with stylish parents such as Hannah Strafford-Taylor and Pearl Lowe, whose pre-loved...
...It began with Newcastle United, the team owned by UK retail billionaire Mike Ashley....
...G4S/GardaWorld: security groups in a punch-up The protagonists in an increasingly bitter hostile takeover fight, Stephan Crétier and Ashley Almanza, could hardly be more different....
...Mike Ashley should have been favourite to take over Debenhams....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...Goudet’s fellow managing partner at JAB, Peter Harf, previously served as chairman of the brewer for almost a decade before stepping down in 2011....
...Evercore v Lazard: the boutique turf war Boutique investment bank results are streaming in, and with two of the biggest advisory shops posting their annual figures, we thought it might be a good time to...
...The group behind the Les Paul, Flying V and Epiphone brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, overwhelmed by the debt it took on to fund an ill-fated diversification into headphones and...
...David Cameron taps China’s sovereign wealth fund It’s already known that David Cameron has been having trouble raising capital for his $1bn fund that is set to partner with the Chinese government on infrastructure...
...Her neighbours in the exclusive gated community include her son Jonathan and his partner....
...Margaret Heffernan concludes that the recent revelations that the Big Four accounting firms have let partners go show corporate calculations on sexual harassment have changed....
...Chris Bubb, senior partner at Foster + Partners, said the distinctive Legislature building — with a dramatic spire reaching into the sky — is designed to be “an iconic, unique structure that symbolises Amaravati...
...Elliott v Arconic: Round 2 The nastiest proxy fight of the season concluded on Monday. Or did it?...
...Carlyle faced competition from CVC Capital Partners and a consortium of BC Partners and Cinven, according to people involved in the process....
...Cooperman said the US Attorney’s Office informed Omega that it “has not completed its investigation but has determined not to pursue charges for the time being pending the Supreme Court’s decision in Salman v...
...Performance fees earned for exiting deals dropped to $233m, from $333m a year ago, dragged by Carlyle Partners V, its $13.7bn North America buyout fund started in 2007 with investments from Getty Images...
...Carlyle’s performance fees earned for exiting deals fell to $233m from $333m a year ago, dragged down by Carlyle Partners V, its $13.7bn buyout fund from 2007 with investments from Getty Images to money...
...The shares soared 17.7 per cent amid speculation that Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley was either trying to block the sale or gain leverage against a rival....
...The cyber security industry says that companies’ budgets for protecting against hackers are rising on the back of high-profile attacks such as breaches at adultery website Ashley Madison and health insurer...
...climbed to €729m, a rise of 25 per cent on the prior year helped by €412m in cost reductions following a 2013 agreement with unions on job cuts and wage freezes, as well as component sharing with Japanese partner...
...Ashley Serrao, an analyst at Credit Suisse, said: “When investors think of Blackstone, they think of the asset management....
...EMC has already invested in Base79, the online video network started by Ashley Mackenzie whose father, Kelvin, is a former editor of The Sun newspaper....
...However the head of investor relations at one of TPG’s main rivals said: “LPs [limited partners] want returns, they want to see their money put to work for them....
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