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...The “hush money” case features a colourful cast including the former president’s ex-fixer and a porn star....
...UBS has named Jeff Hinton as global co-head of M&A. He joined last year from Barclays as co-head of M&A for the Americas....
...Moelis & Company has appointed Citigroup’s Jugjeev Duggal, an M&A adviser focused on clean technology and related sectors, as a managing director in New York....
...US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Scott Easterwood as portfolio company procurement programme director....
...Join us on October 17 at the Biltmore Mayfair in London as we gather the biggest names in M&A, private equity and corporate finance. DD subscribers get a special discount....
...Caroline Ellison, the star witness in the trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, said the FTX founder had directed her and her ex-colleagues to steal roughly $10bn of customer deposits....
...LVMH’s big succession question With five children, Bernard Arnault faces difficult choices in divvying up his luxury empire and preserving his legacy, The New York Times reports....
...Patricia NilssonI’m Patricia Nilsson. Alex BarkerAnd I’m Alex Barker. From Pushkin Industries in the Financial Times, this is Hot Money....
...It’s an embedded practice that Heidy Rehman, ex-investment banker and now director at Strategy Builders, a small business consultancy, is trying to shift....
...Another high-profile vehicle backed by LVMH founder Bernard Arnault and former UniCredit chief Jean Pierre Mustier also recently fell on its sword....
...Arnault (FT) Crypto fugitive Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro, says interior minister (FT) NBA players had millions stolen by ex-Morgan Stanley investment adviser, prosecutors say (Bloomberg)...
...I never have any question that I’m not getting the straight dope from them,” he says. He is lucky....
...Bernard Arnault, newly crowned the world’s richest person, has built LVMH into a luxury empire while his predecessor Elon Musk’s impulsive dealmaking has cost him billions, William Cohan argues in an FT...
...Ira Sorkin, who served as Bernard Madoff’s lead criminal defence lawyer, has been hired to represent Aurelien Michel — the 24-year-old Frenchman charged in the US with defrauding buyers of his “Mutant Ape...
...Kirkland & Ellis London M&A partner Tom McCarthy is joining the legal team of private equity firm Triton Partners....
...DD readers are by now well-acquainted with characters such as Jean Pierre Mustier, the former UniCredit boss, and LVMH founder Bernard Arnault....
...Take former SEC chair Jay Clayton, who sits on the boards of a crypto asset manager and serves as Apollo Global Management’s lead independent director....
...Shoppers will also find a line of candles named after Nickey’s grandfather Bernard, and the fruits of a candle collaboration with Parisian glassblowing studio La Soufflerie....
...Ex-UBS chief executive Ermotti merged his Spac with Italian luxury fashion company Zegna in December....
...Crypto casino The NFT boom has attracted billions of dollars and a growing number of suspicious trades — including a particularly lucky bet by the son of LVMH boss Bernard Arnault, Forbes reports....
...Former GE veterans Steve Bolze and John Krenicki caught on to the trend early, joining Blackstone and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, respectively, while Immelt has brought his fervour for dealmaking to venture...
...Gupta’s empire: beware of land M-INES DD imagines it’s a busy time for Sanjeev Gupta....
...Barclays has appointed Davide Sala as a managing director and head of industrials M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...Bernard Jenkin, Conservative chair of the House of Commons liaison committee, which regularly questions prime ministers, said there was merit in civil servants obtaining experience in the private sector...
...Houellebecq told me he was the atomised man that his novels decry: “I’m railing against myself.”...
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