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...I’m always a sucker for dessert, and the Bibendum double-chocolate soufflé was truly spectacular....
...“I’m mixing things we all know, or that my parents know. Suddenly you’re reconfiguring them and they feel new again.”...
...But seeing the trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan play in a bar in San Francisco in the early 1950s proved a pivotal moment....
...Brown Advisory, the investment management firm, has made three senior hires to its international advisory board: ex-Chatham House CEO Sir Robin Niblett, Rothschild & Co senior adviser Sian Westerman, and...
...I’m a big fan of his music and I love this album so much – we play it a lot in the studio, learning all the words for his performances....
...He’s an absolutely masterful guitar player from Fort Worth, Texas, with a beautiful voice that combines elements of folk and jazz – kind of like Chet Baker....
...“I’m too tired to be sad about the Queen’s death,” said Elisio Nyaga, a 93-year-old who fought in the Mau Mau uprising....
...“So no, I’m not a global warming proponent.” Lesko’s office did not respond to a request for comment on whether her position had changed....
...But the place I’m keenest to take my parents is BiBi on North Audley Street. Its chef is Chet Sharma. Now 34, he grew up in “a typical Punjabi household” in Berkshire....
...Chet Thompson of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers said a carbon tax would be “bad public policy” that raised prices at the pump....
...HSBC’s banking and advisory team has been in flux since it parted ways with Matthew Westerman last November....
...Mr Westerman left HSBC last year after he ruffled feathers with what some considered an abrasive style....
...When it sought to play the American way, hiring Matthew Westerman from Goldman Sachs, things swiftly unravelled....
...mention my mum and dad, my managers Brian Message and Sumit Bothra, and all the artists I love whose wisdom is in their best work: Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Julie London, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra and Chet...
...HSBC has been hit by the departure of big-name bankers brought in recently to boost its performance, including Mr Westerman and Philip Noblet, who left as its top UK dealmaker in August....
...In M&A, HSBC sits 37th on Dealogic’s numbers, having advised on deals worth about 4 per cent of Goldman Sachs’ haul....
...Based on fees earned from M&A advice for the year to date, HSBC ranked 20th both globally and in Europe for M&A fees for the year to date and 21st in the UK, according to Refinitiv....
...Mendoza is a former vice-chairman of the board of JPMorgan Chase where he worked for 30 years on the M&A, capital markets and private equity teams....
...Chet Pipkin started Belkin in his early twenties from his parents’ garage in Southern California in 1983....
...Matthew Westerman: Mugabe moment For some of HSBC’s investment bankers, news that Matthew Westerman, co-head of global banking, was leaving after 18 months sparked celebration....
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...Given the conflicts, Roberts, who two years ago poached MS man Robert Eatroff as Comcast’s head of M&A, had to find some more help....
...The ramifications of that decision will reverberate around the world of M&A....
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...He will focus on expanding the firm’s corporate M&A practice. Wang joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and has more than 20 years experience in cross-border M&A....
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