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...Grant Thornton is the seventh-largest US accounting firm by revenue and the deal with New Mountain represents the largest private equity investment in the accounting profession, coming hot on the heels of...
...The sale of a majority stake to New Mountain represents the biggest private equity deal in the sector....
...The US arm of accounting firm Grant Thornton has agreed to sell a majority stake to the investment group New Mountain Capital, in the largest of a wave of private equity deals that are reshaping the sector...
...The reshuffle comes ahead of Google’s first-quarter earnings on 25 April and its annual I/O developer conference on 14 and 15 May at its headquarters in Mountain View, California....
...Last week, Chicago-based Grant Thornton agreed to sell a majority stake to New Mountain Capital in the sector’s largest deal. Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...Aspen Snowmass is opening a new lift that will whisk skiers to a high, north-facing portion of Aspen Mountain for the first time....
...The classical sites persist — a graceful, slender Roman bridge vaulting a deep chasm, the vast Selge amphitheatre, a pediment-topped tomb entrance halfway up a mountain — but on this side of the mountains...
...The front of the property has floor-to-ceiling windows looking out towards the Slieve Mish mountains and Kerry Head....
...“It’s on the sponsor to defend their portfolio,” said John Kline, managing director of New Mountain Capital....
...But for its Mountain View-based staff there is reportedly a “carrot” as well: dodge the commute by staying — for $99 a night — at Google’s own hotel....
...In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation...
...With a small stove you can make yourself a coffee in the morning, often the mud is only calf-deep and sometimes it’s baking hot instead....
...I love the mix of materials and the vibrant colours. lorareynolds.com The place that means a lot to me is west Texas – specifically, our family’s ranch, where the Davis Mountains meet the Chinati Mountains...
...Back at the hotel, the massage therapist tends to my tender calf muscles with the ministrations of a sumo (regular Dolce Vitality guests have the option of Theragun “percussive” massages)....
...I’m looking forward to channelling Talitha Getty while shopping in the souks, wandering through the Majorelle Gardens and admiring the views of the Atlas Mountains from the rooftops....
...The calf’s mother screamed, warning her child. The eagle dropped the calf, which scrambled up the mountainside followed by its mother, as the eagle swooped fruitlessly above....
...It’s the sort of thing they should cast in solid gold so we can dance around it until Moses comes back down the mountain to put us on a diet. There is dessert, of course....
...Instead, it’s replaced by a minivan driven enthusiastically by a sturdy bloke with a tattoo of a dog etched on his calf....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
...I dodged the calf’s head with gribiche sauce and had the cassoulet. It was a splendid evening....
...Traversing would be a comparative breeze, but this initial climb made my calf muscles sing, then scream....
...The Mountain View search giant is therefore buying US specialist Mandiant for $5.4bn cash....
...Uuz, treasured and rare, is a custard-coloured cheese made from the milk a cow produces for the first newborn calf of the year. Like swallows arriving, it’s a sign of spring....
...Mountain View-based Google announced the equity investment on Thursday alongside a broader 10-year partnership that CME chief executive Terry Duffy said “will transform derivatives markets”....
...Private equity is sitting on mountains of “dry powder” — $413bn in Europe alone, reckons Preqin — which they need to deploy. The buyout industry can never quite buck the cycle....
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