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...Chicago-based Grant Thornton is the seventh largest accounting firm in the US after the Big Four, RSM and BDO, with $2.4bn in revenue in its past financial year, which ran to July 2023....
...The most surprising news of the year was that Endeavor, owner of Frieze, bought the Armory Show and Chicago Expo fairs....
...There are plenty of soundbites but this is my favourite, from CBS News’s 60 Minutes. “And in [FTX’s] case, they actually had — a great real business....
...Marc Ganis, a Chicago-based sports consultant who knows the Glazer family through his work with the NFL, reckons the partnership has a strong chance of confounding sceptics....
...The decision to partner with Samsung marks an effort by GM to diversify its battery supply chain away from LG with whom the US carmaker jointly owns and operates three battery plants....
...Today, it is not very hard to find retired Lazard partners who claim they counselled management to avoid listing in case it proved an albatross....
...It’s to unlock things we couldn’t do previously,” says Shirley Meng, battery professor at the University of Chicago....
...“There’s definitely a blame game going on and we’ll see more of it,” said Ian Katz, financial policy analyst at independent research firm Capital Alpha Partners....
...There is always “tension” between the two, said Nick Cunningham, analyst at Agency Partners in London....
...Sullivan’s lead partner on the case, Andrew Dietderich, is a restructuring attorney who most recently assisted FTX win a bankruptcy auction for the assets of Voyager Digital, another crypto exchange that...
...Corporate filings in Singapore show that Sayin was one of two new directors registered at CB Enterprises Pte Ltd on Tuesday, the Singapore-registered special purpose vehicle used by Trafigura in 2021 to...
...But despite the acclaim and opportunities that followed, Johnson coolly turned his back on instant market success and returned to graduate school in Chicago....
...He cautions, however, against adding more US destinations to the schedule, despite calls by some team principals to consider California, New York or Chicago....
...Dominic Murphy, one of the key figures behind KKR’s takeover of Boots, is now a managing partner at CVC....
...At Expo Chicago in April, David Cleaton-Roberts, a partner at Cristea Roberts, noted that “we came here because we used to do Frieze New York and still want to do a spring fair in the US”....
...The UK’s second-largest funds supermarket said that the Chicago-based financial data company would take over management of its recommended funds lists, including the flagship Super 60, which help retail...
...Additional reporting by Claire Bushey in Chicago...
...Chicago-based TT is widely used by banks, proprietary traders, hedge funds and brokers to connect to the world’s big futures exchanges, including SGX and CBOE....
...Last month Ford and its partner SK Innovation said they would invest $11bn to construct an electric vehicle assembly plant, battery factory and supplier park on the farmland 50 miles north-east of Memphis...
...EOS Deal Advisory, EKEM Partners and AC Christes & Partner, advisory firms based in the UK, France and Germany respectively, will join forces with Virtas Partners, a 30-person business headquartered in Chicago...
...Cooley has hired Neal Aizenstein as a partner in its new Chicago office. He was previously chair of DLA Piper’s Chicago corporate group....
...Job moves DD exclusive: PJT Partners has hired the veteran European dealmaker René Proglio as a partner in its advisory group based in Paris....
...Shortly before the departure of Nasard in April, Kantar announced the acquisition of Numerator, a Chicago-based market intelligence company, from Vista Equity Partners....
...Frederic Pescatori, a partner who joined in 2009, is the only individual named in the prospectus as holding more than 3 per cent....
...That has helped make Shopee's parent, Sea Ltd, one of the most successful companies of the pandemic. The price of its New York Stock Exchange-listed shares rose 395 per cent in 2020....
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