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...News round-up Byron Allen’s latest takeover bid: Paramount for $14bn (Bloomberg) Berlusconi’s Sardinian estate on sale for €500mn (FT) Blackstone chief gave Christie campaign $2mn after backing Trump...
...Private equity group Apollo recently expressed interest, while Paramount shares jumped as much as 13.5 per cent this week after media entrepreneur Byron Allen made a $14.3bn bid to buy all of the group’s...
...Norman became maître d’ at the theatre restaurant Joe Allen, then moved up through the London restaurant scene to eventually become operations director of Caprice Holdings, whose portfolio of high-profile...
...October 17 as we gather some of the biggest names in finance and dealmaking including UK Competition and Markets Authority chief Sarah Cardell, Bain Capital’s John Connaughton and BDT & MSD Partners co-heads Byron...
...London-based Allen & Overy partner Andy McGregor has joined Enyo Law days after A&O’s proposed merger with New York’s Shearman & Sterling was voted through....
...Job moves Credit Suisse’s former investment bank chief Christian Meissner is joining BDT & MSD Partners, the investment and advisory firm run by Goldman veterans Byron Trott and Gregg Lemkau, as a partner...
...Buffett once had kind, if lukewarm praise for his former Goldman banker, Byron Trott....
...As the weather has grown increasingly apocalyptic, Byron Allen, owner of the Weather Channel, said American audiences had flocked to his network for minute-by-minute updates during storms such as Hurricane...
...The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon Allen Lane, £75/Liveright, $100, 912 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Almost half a century later, Sen became master of the college that gave the world Isaac Newton, Lords Byron and Tennyson, John Dryden, Bertrand Russell, Jawaharlal Nehru and Ludwig Wittgenstein....
...Philosophers, political thinkers and authors of the 18th and 19th centuries who criticised aspects of British imperialism, including Edmund Burke, Lord Byron and John Stuart Mill, may have thought they were...
...The notion that the financial system is rigged is explored by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan in Sabotage (Allen Lane RRP£20/Public Affairs RRP$27, January)....
...The Hunt Valley, Maryland-based group will acquire the regional networks through a newly formed subsidiary called Diamond Sports, and Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel, will invest in the business...
...Allen Lane, revered as the founder of Penguin, “did not appear ever to have read a whole book”, according to a quote in Jeremy Lewis’ Penguin Special....
...He is the author of Byron’s War (2013), an examination of the English poet’s life through his devotion to Greek independence, and of George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel (2003), a biography of the Greek...
...David Wallace-Wells wrote an article read by millions in New York Magazine about the effect of climate change, now followed up with The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (Allen Lane, February)...
...One can only imagine how they would have esteemed Lord Byron the Bandit....
...Marketing follows what might be called the “Woody Allen rule”, after the movie director’s assertion that 80 per cent of success is showing up....
...Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, by Minoo Dinshaw, Allen Lane RRP£30, 784 pages Ben Judah is author of ‘This is London: Life and Death in the World City’ (Picador)...
...Italian Lakes, by Steven Desmond and Marianne Majerus, Francis Lincoln, RRP£35 Pliny the Younger had two villas around the Italian Lakes, and a host of literati from Goethe to Shelley, Wharton to Joyce, Byron...
...Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty, Canongate, RRP£12.99 / WWNorton, RRP$24.95, 272 pages The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life, by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, Allen...
...Take Lord Byron, the Romantic poet and champion of radical causes. Upon hearing of the victory, he remarked: “I am damned sorry for it . . ....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...summarised by Lord Byron: What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate’s sultry....
...His tastes are somewhat more orthodox, gravitating towards the works of Keats, Byron, Frost and Auden....
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