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...“He gets enormous pleasure out of gardening. He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...His family was in the middle rank of administrators and advisers to the chiefs: a kind of Raiatean civil service....
...Acrisure’s business development platform has added some real estate services too....
...detailed in the administrators’ report....
...as opposed to a sudden flash flood,” said Simon Appell, European co-head of restructuring at AlixPartners....
...Three years later Mr Fontenla-Novoa bought Co-operative Travel, taking Thomas Cook’s retail estate to more than 1,200 shops. Two people with knowledge of that deal said he had overpaid....
...However, Rhian-Mari Thomas, head of the recently created Green Finance Initiative in London — a pioneering public-private partnership — thinks this is a mistake....
...’s ideas; his brother Julian was a prominent biologist and public figure, the first director-general of Unesco, co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund....
...As the stock of non-performing loans falls, servicing platforms are beginning to look at new ways of making money. Read the full piece by the FT's Thomas Hale here....
...Elliott v Arconic: Round 2 The nastiest proxy fight of the season concluded on Monday. Or did it?...
...Mr Trump’s transition team also nominated Todd Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, as deputy commerce secretary....
...Last week, HP went further by levelling an accusation of fraud directly at Mr Lynch and said it was co-operating with criminal investigations under way in the UK and the US....
...These absurdist and ironic twists were all very well, I said to the V&A exhibition’s co-curators Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon, but were they effective?...
...As I pieced together Russell’s life, mapped the locations of her co-signatories’ homes and businesses, and charted the intrigues that underpinned their religious affiliations, a picture of the political...
...Not since Barings financed the Louisiana Purchase on behalf of Thomas Jefferson in 1803 has a UK enterprise had so much money riding on the Gulf of Mexico state....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...under the weight of billions of pounds of bad real-estate debt....
...PwC was appointed administrator to Kilmartin, one of the largest Scottish developers....
...Even so, the group is still dealing with the demise of one of its biggest tenants, Lehman Brothers, with the risk of legal action against what it sees as lost rent from the administrator, PWC, which intends...
...Separately, Deloitte has been appointed as administrator to Thornfield Ventures, and has commissioned Hammerson to finish the main development of the group, the Rock shopping centre in Bury....
...This was in spite of 140 expressions of interest, according to PwC, the administrator....
...The UK’s second-largest real estate company finalised on Friday the cash-and-debt deal, which created a joint venture with Blackstone to hold the 32-acre City of London estate....
...In 1997, it became the co-owner of C&N Touristic AG, forerunner to Thomas Cook. By 1999, Karstadt was the biggest department store retailer in Europe....
...The German retailer’s insolvency administrator said on Thursday it was in talks with banks holding the stake as collateral for €940m of loans....
...Wolf Hall By Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, £18.99 This year’s Man Booker Prize-winner is a convincing portrayal of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister....
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