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...Such a scene still only plays out in the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in this case at a nightcap hosted by Bank of America and its chief executive Brian Moynihan....
...DD’s Will Louch and the FT’s Anna Gross uncovered a crucial statistic shared by Britain’s wealthiest financiers that could further ignite a red hot political debate in the UK....
...Blackstone senior managing director Brian Sauvigne is leaving the firm, DD has confirmed after an earlier Bloomberg report....
...DD notes one potential alternative for NBIM comes from the public stock markets....
...The pair were on the teams responsible for two $10bn-plus fundraisings that closed in 2008, DD’s Eric Platt reports....
...At Goldman Sachs, Brian Haufrect, co-head of M&A in the Americas, is a seasoned adviser to energy groups including Occidental Petroleum, ConocoPhillips and Shell....
...Job moves Skadden has hired Brian Paulson as a capital markets partner in its Palo Alto office. He joins from Latham & Watkins....
...Dechert has hired Brian Miner as a partner in its corporate and securities practice group. He joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, where he co-chaired its M&A and securities group....
...Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts intends to drive a hard bargain, however....
...Goldman Sachs co-head of Latin America Ricardo Mora is leaving the bank, DD reports....
...Global Infrastructure Partners hired Ares Management’s Brian O’Connor as a partner on its credit platform. Eurazeo has promoted Hala Fadel to managing partner to lead its growth strategy....
...But beneath the bouncy idioms, this particular deal has a rather dark history, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill writes in a DD dispatch from South Africa....
...of which has underlying investment grade ratings,” Nick Proud, a senior managing director at Assured Guaranty, told DD’s Will Louch and Robert Smith....
...Similar stories in AZ [Arizona] and PA [Pennsylvania],” Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday....
..., according to a memo seen by DD....
...Aside from a little faux pas with Netflix, that’s not so bad compared to the Tiger Globals of the world....
...This is something we’ve talked a lot about on DD....
...One lender told DD the Tenneco deal was “a Hail Mary effort to see if [the banks] could capitalise on recent market strength”....
...(For those in need of a refresher, a FTX special edition of DD broke down the saga last week.)...
...Throw in a collapsed $3bn property deal between Blackstone and Soho China, a deepening liquidity crisis at Evergrande and a diplomacy faux pas from JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, and you’ve got the year in Wall...
...For owners of English football clubs, DD imagines it must’ve been hard to see Chelsea FC sell for £2.5bn and not think about doing the same....
...Four names have emerged, reports DD’s Antoine Gara, which reflect a vastly different culture than Wall Street rivals. Two are trained accountants, three studied at Canadian universities....
...Among them were former PCAOB staffers-turned KPMG employees Brian Sweet and Cynthia Holder....
...Brian Bartlett has joined Kekst CNC as a partner in Washington. He was most recently a managing director at Rational 360....
...A longtime critic of Big Tech, the antitrust boss is part of a new progressive generation of antitrust officials brought in by Joe Biden. DD readers will be familiar with Kanter....
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