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...Oaktree is selling at a price well off its all-time high....
...Concluding every view, brilliantly illuminated, rose the snow-peaks of the Sierra Nevada....
...“We have entered into [memorandums of understanding] with various commercial banks to the tune of around Rs100bn,” said V Rama Manohara Rao, APCRDA special commissioner....
...At the Versace menswear show in Milan, energy was everything....
...France’s Total has struck a $3.2bn deal to sell its Atotech specialty chemicals business to private equity heavyweight Carlyle Group as European energy majors look to sell off non-core assets to shore up...
...Elliott v Arconic: Round 2 The nastiest proxy fight of the season concluded on Monday. Or did it?...
...My involvement with various institutions such as the V&A and the Serpentine has really opened my eyes....
...The fall in oil prices over the past 12 months has called into question the viability of high-cost production in areas such as the Arctic....
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...Other poor investments in the TPG V fund include Freescale, the semiconductor maker in which four private equity firms jointly invested, and Energy Future Holdings, now valued at 5 cents on the dollar....
...in African mining prospects, with its high risk-high reward curve....
...In the high-stakes struggle between the equity of Energy Future Holdings and the debt, that proved a miscalculation....
...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...
...LP, and another $350m in a co-investment fund....
...An apt time to reboot Energy Flash: a new chapter covers the rise of EDM and dubstep....
...V....
...The other outstanding issue is Exxon’s bid in October for a stake in Ghana’s Jubilee field, which the industry believes forms part of a newly discovered oil coast stretching off west Africa, from Sierra...
...Big international energy groups and state-owned oil companies from China and India are circling Kosmos Energy for its Ghanaian oilfield assets, which have been valued at $3bn-$6bn by analysts....
...Leslie Crawford is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief. Whose side are they on?...
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