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...In 2020, The Ritz passed from the Barclay Brothers to Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri; the Sultan of Brunei bought the Dorchester in 1985; The Savoy is owned by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed...
...The recent talks signal Labour’s embrace of private equity’s increasing presence in the UK, from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s £10bn takeover of grocer Wm Morrison to the mega-buyout of Asda to US financier...
...and his siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis....
...Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Dan Glaser, former president and CEO of Marsh McLennan, as an operating partner....
...Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has promoted three new partners: Harsh Agarwal, Romain Dutartre, and Rob Volpe....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired Nadav Tomer as an operating adviser to CD&R funds, focused on healthcare investing. He was global president of Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes Spine franchise....
...Prince Alwaleed’s vast fortune, too, has been a subject of speculation....
...20th century, when changing fashions, the Great Depression and the introduction of income tax caused a mass selling-off of properties, some for a fraction of their construction cost (Rosecliff, where Jack Clayton...
...On Thursday, we also learnt that the UK’s Takeover Panel has set an August 9 deadline for US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice to bid after it already had one approach rejected....
...Instead, it sailed the Red Sea aboard Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 439-foot yacht....
...Many recent books have been of a specialist nature, like Martin Clayton’s Leonardo: A Life in Drawing or Martin Kemp’s personal account Living with Leonardo....
...The headstrong prince apologised. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus: keeping promises Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is not one to air her family’s dirty laundry in public....
...A headline to start: “Business horrified by Brexit turmoil” One other update: Saudi Arabia has attempted to bring closure to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by absolving Crown Prince Mohammed...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice named Eric Rouzier a partner at the private equity firm....
...The newly installed head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton (a former mergers and acquisitions lawyer) has prioritised bringing initial public offerings to the US and has softened some...
...The PE baron’s close ties to the president helped Blackstone strengthen its existing ties with Saudi Arabia’s royal family, which ultimately led Prince Mohammed bin Salman to agree investing $20bn into a...
...The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli — ‘a shrewd man . . . should act as skilful archers do, when their target seems too distant: knowing well the power of their bow, they aim at a much higher point, not to...
...The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Laurence Cummings will perform with their high-quality soloists, including soprano Sophie Bevan and tenor Allan Clayton....
...Nor should the efforts of the entrepreneurial Distin family should go unremarked, says Jeff Miller, who plays in the period-instrument Prince Regent’s Band....
...Nobody told you Prince Madoc discovered America in 1170?) Rhys is good with concepts....
...Anthology’s influence on artists from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Gillian Welch has become a truism of pop scholarship – at least after its 1997 reissue on CD....
...The shifting tectonics of “Holocene” best showcased the two drummers, while the sheer funkiness of “Minnesota, WI” was a reminder that Prince is also a Midwesterner....
...Its intro like a bare-bones version of Prince’s “If I Was Your Girlfriend”, “Dans Mon Café” turned up the heat. A Cajun-style slide guitar joined in, and Paradis’s sung-spoken delivery was sultry....
...The standout treatments come from Robin Pecknold, singing slightly lower than he does in Fleet Foxes, on the title track and Bonnie “Prince” Billy with his sinuous Spanish version of “Simple Man”....
...“Bad Day” begins, “I hope that the last page of your 800-page novel is missing”, and winds up with a thrift-store Prince falsetto....
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