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...Mr Smith used some of the untaxed funds on properties for his personal use in the US and France, and at times to fund his US charitable activities, he admitted in the settlement....
...It comes as we’ve been telling you about similar actions in the UK and France for some time....
...But the methods that served Mr Trump so well on the campaign trail could prove highly destabilising when he is president....
...Breitbart is currently on a global expansion push, with the aim of adding sites in Germany and France to its existing operations in the US and Israel....
...“Any changes usually involve extensive foaming of the runway,” said Amar Reganti, a fixed-income strategist at GMO LLC in Boston, who used to work in the department....
...Only because it’s about France.”...
...Japanese companies had Y215tn in cash at the end of March, according to the Bank of Japan, an amount equivalent to the gross domestic product of France....
...Private equity groups have long been aware of the potential for large cost savings from combining Warner and EMI’s recorded music businesses, which trail behind Universal Music and Sony Music Entertainment...
...In France, PAI was forced to cut its €5.4bn fund in half after its top two bosses quit amid a shock internal bust-up....
...E-Plus and O2 are Germany’s third- and fourth-largest mobile operators – but they trail Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone by some distance. Another country where consolidation looks likely is Italy....
...Most noticeably, with the pack on the trail of Sir Fred Goodwin, there is nothing in the code that would regulate the severance and retirement deals canny bank chiefs strike when they’re hired....
...Most recently, even Deutsche Telekom, one of the most notorious former overpayers, returned to the takeover trail, buying a minority stake and management control of OTE of Greece....
...“The Delaware LLC provides the anonymity that most international jurisdictions do not offer,” claims one agent website quoted by the task force....
...“In addition, trade buyers are back on the acquisition trail after a period of consolidation and internal focus.”...
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