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...Staveley has a minority stake in Newcastle, whose performance last season took the club back into the Champions League for the first time in 20 years....
...She was also formerly the civil service “champion” for diversity issues....
...“This transaction will be a catalyst to refocus Teck as a Canadian-based critical minerals champion with an extensive portfolio of copper growth projects, unlocking the full value potential of the company...
...FA | The Football Association gave official support for Aleksander Ceferin to be re-elected Uefa president and sent a written endorsement just three weeks after Uefa’s catastrophic organisation of the Champions...
...But they warn the episode undermines Sharp’s credibility as a champion of impartiality, which has been one of his top priorities at the corporation, even if it did not stop him again stressing its importance...
...“We’re not forced sellers of assets on the one side and yet we have the ability to move very quickly when there is dislocation to take advantage of an opportunity,” Blackstone president Jonathan Gray recently...
...A report by senior civil servant Sue Gray last month concluded many of the gatherings at Downing Street breached lockdown rules and pointed to a failure of leadership....
...“It has prevented billionaire team owners outspending each other on salaries,” says Toto Wolff, team principal and shareholder of eight times constructors’ champion Mercedes....
...The Chinese government’s main gripe with the lithium sector has been the risk the price rise dents the market for electric cars, said Daisy Jennings-Gray, an analyst at Benchmark Minerals Intelligence....
...Perhaps those with most to worry about are the civil servants, who Gray is likely to name, resulting in disciplinary action....
...‘Champions League for research’ | The EU is blocking British scientists from joining the €95bn Horizon Europe research programme — the world’s biggest — because of the Northern Ireland spat....
...Guidée’s legal explanation received short shrift from Nigel Topping, who leads Race to Zero as one of the UN’s two high-level climate champions....
...In later life, he became a champion of new talent — he starred in, among others, Wes Anderson’s debut, Bottle Rocket (1996), and James Gray’s second film, The Yards (2000), and he was vocal in his support...
...The tabloid remained a vocal champion of popular causes and ran campaigns such as Mail Force, conceived at the height of the pandemic, which raised £12m, securing 42m items of personal protective equipment...
...Jon Gray, Blackstone’s president and chief operating officer, has repeatedly cited data centres as an important investment theme for the US buyouts giant....
...“Rupert Murdoch has been a constant and fearless champion of free speech and we are going to be building something new and very exciting together,” Morgan said in a statement....
...“Companies are saying I need my production closer to my customers,” said Jonathan Gray, president of Blackstone Group....
...Bertelsmann’s chief executive has said he is “confident” regulators will approve a deal that will allow the German media group to create a national television champion in France, adding he is also eyeing...
...“It’s almost like changing the engines on a plane whilst flying it . . . a significant engineering feat,” says Edward Machin, a senior lawyer in Ropes & Gray’s data, privacy and cyber security practice....
...“Self-confident and able because in most cases they have successfully won a reputation as local champions who won their seats against the odds.”...
...Some employers have taken this to heart, such as the law firm that set up a fertility officer to act as a sounding board and champion for lawyers considering having a child or struggling with conception....
...Davis Polk has hired Paul Scrivano, Ropes & Gray’s global head of M&A, as a partner working between his resident northern California and New York. Latham & Watkins has hired 17 partners....
...Instead, it’s aimed at ensuring that future national champions critical to the country’s economy, like those that hold a lot of data, won’t be dominated by foreign shareholders....
...Nina Yashar, who runs the Nilufar gallery in Milan, is a champion of several designers whose work is still too little known....
...“Fundamentally, China is where the growth is,” says Richard Gray, a partner in wealth and asset management at EY....
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