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March 27, 2024

Activist fund Elliott targets Japan’s biggest property group

...Buybacks by Japanese companies in 2023 hit a record ¥9.6tn, with the number of companies announcing them exceeding 1,000 for the second year in a row, according to a recent calculation by the Nikkei newspaper...

February 5, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Design

Alternative Toile de Jouy — what would Marie Antoinette think?

...We’ve always had a dislike of the twee — and saccharine,” says Paul Simmons, who co-founded Timorous Beasties (the curious name lifted from a line of poetry by Sir Robert Burns) with fellow Glasgow School...

March 17, 2024

Music

Rock band Kiss sells rights for $300mn to company behind Abba hologram show

...Gene Simmons, bassist and co-founder of Kiss, said there were various plans in development, including the virtual concert, a biopic and a Kiss-themed “experience”....

April 4, 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

Coventry Building Society agrees £780mn merger with Co-op Bank

...Its ill-fated 2009 takeover of Britannia Building Society during the financial crisis exposed it to a pile of bad loans and a £1.5bn capital shortfall....

April 18, 2024

CVC Capital Partners Ltd

CVC co-founder Donald Mackenzie set to net up to €150mn in IPO

...The share sale is part of a broader offering expected to be about €1.6bn, which will give CVC an implied market capitalisation of between €13bn and €15bn, the document states....

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe

Generative AI: a legal revolution is coming — eventually

...Generative AI “will mean fundamental changes to the law firm model”, says Jeremy Hoyland, managing partner of Simmons & Simmons, before adding “eventually”....

September 22, 2023

ReviewFilm

The Disappearance of Shere Hite — portrait of a sex researcher who alarmed America

...) and interviews with colleagues, friends, partners and, most improbably, Kiss singer and bassist Gene Simmons, a former neighbour....

January 11, 2024

News updates from March 27: Yen hits 34-year low; Nobel winner Daniel Kahneman dies

Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner

...Gross, 53, will start as co-managing partner on April 1, succeeding Jonathan Lavine....

March 27, 2024

Private credit

Private credit is even larger than you think

...Preqin’s latest estimate based on data to Jun-23, stands at $1.71tn globally, with $1.08tn of that situated in North America. These numbers aren’t the whole story, however....

April 17, 2024

Letter

Letter: Why announcing non-dom policy on the hoof is tricky

...James BadcockTax Lawyer, Winslows Tax Law: Co-chair, UK Chapter of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, London W1, UK...

April 22, 2024

Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe

Practice of law: best examples in legal work

Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

September 22, 2023

Niger

Niger ends military co-operation agreement with US

...In January, Russia’s defence ministry said Niger had agreed to deepen defence co-operation with Moscow....

March 17, 2024

FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities

What’s happening in Miami: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to 2024

...Simmons is a key figure in the discourse around the intersection of race, class, and gender identity in contemporary art....

February 8, 2024

Ask AdeelaHow to be beautiful 2024

What to buy a beauty addict – as chosen by an expert

...This Tabitha Simmons design, inspired by Diana, Princess of Wales’s Tanner Krolle vanity case, is the ne plus ultra. tannerkrolle.com Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Heaven Can Wait, £185 for 50ml EDPAs...

November 10, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Chinese business & finance

Quant hedge funds bet on China despite investor exodus

...& Simmons in Beijing....

November 28, 2023

The Big Read

Downfall of the judge who dominated US bankruptcy

...Serta Simmons itself would go on to quickly exit court supervision, as the company wished....

November 21, 2023

FIFA Men's World Cup

England beat co-hosts Australia to reach Women’s World Cup final

...The England women’s football team are through to their first World Cup final after beating co-hosts Australia in a landmark game in front of more than 75,000 fans in Sydney....

August 16, 2023

International Paper Co

International Paper agrees to buy rival DS Smith in £7.8bn deal

...Shares in DS Smith were down 1.7 per cent at 403p on Tuesday. Mondi declined to comment....

April 16, 2024

EG Group

EG Group in talks to sell some UK assets to co-founder Zuber Issa

...Total revenue was down 6.6 per cent to $28bn in 2023, while underlying profits fell 10 per cent to $1.1bn....

March 6, 2024

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP

Hedge fund Brevan Howard cuts 10% of staff amid poor performance

...Brevan Howard, which was co-founded by billionaire Alan Howard, has suffered a sustained period of poor performance since the start of 2023....

April 18, 2024

Food & Drink

Oxtail and chickpea stew — a Honey & Co recipe

...Cover with 1.5-2 litres of water, depending on the size of your saucepan....

February 14, 2024

The Art Market

Sotheby’s set to make record for Surrealist Leonora Carrington

...Sotheby’s sales on April 5 made a total HK$673mn including fees ($86mn), below estimate and nearly half of the 2023 equivalent of HK$1.1bn....

April 18, 2024

Boeing Co

Boeing engineer says safety concerns are ignored inside plane maker

...Boeing employees “hear safety is our No 1 priority, but what they see is that is only true as long as your production milestones are met”, De Luis testified in a separate hearing held by the US Senate Commerce...

April 17, 2024

Letter

Letter: Net zero’s leading edge isn’t a comfortable place to be

...It’s worth bearing in mind that the UK emits 1 per cent of global CO₂, the EU 8 per cent. Global co-operation is necessary to have a meaningful impact on CO₂ whatever its cause or effect....

April 8, 2024

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