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...As DD’s Sujeet Indap and James Fontanella-Khan detailed in a Big Read in May, Handler, a technology banker, has sued Centerview arguing that, following his ugly departure from the firm a year ago, he’d been...
...But there’s one bit from the 60 Minutes interview we’d like to push back on....
...So basically it is somewhere between pay-to-play and gambling, though we’d be delighted to know what “non-economic conditions” entails....
...Look to reclamation dealers such as Retrouvius and English Salvage as well as local yards for wonderful old examples. I could spend hours trawling the web for stained glass panels....
...“I’d not be very comfortable if we had balances” at one of the banks caught up in the scandal, said the head of a large Europe-based hedge fund firm....
...Though we’d like to think otherwise, we’re just three weeks into January and Spacs have already raised a fifth of the $78bn the vehicles accumulated last year....
...If you’d like to dig down into the deal’s financial engineering, Lex has the full details here....
...He was surrounded by family in his final days, his partner of 48 years, William L Thompson, having pre-deceased him....
...Here's a good NYT profile of the two men about their paths to the top of Goldman and their favourite pastimes, which for Solomon include spinning electronic dance music under the name DJ D-Sol....
...Moreover in the 2015 restructuring, Guggenheim committed $100m itself at the bottom of the capital structure in an effort to salvage BCBG....
...And on the negative rates to close, we’d suggest it’s a little early to chase the banks....
...Email: alex.barker@ft.com Twitter: @alexebarker Elsewhere in Europe L’affaire Barroso Jean-Claude Juncker waded back into the controversy over Jose Manuel Barroso’s new job with Goldman Sachs....
...PB Swiss Tools L-Wrenches rainbow hexagon key set, £35, twentytwentyone.com 10 Cycle Revolution, an exploration of the aesthetics of vélo culture, arrives at the Design Museum next month....
...“I don’t think we’d done ourselves any favours before that,” he says. “We covered the games and we weren’t terribly authentic. But in 2008 we had presenters who were former players....
...“It was also a choice of political marketing,” they write in Valls à l’interieur....
...Last week, Rémi Jouty, head of the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile (BEA), the French air accident investigation branch, said much more work was needed before any undersea...
...“We the London defendants and your nephew are hoping to find salvage in the shipwreck . . . is there anything you can say to help us find that salvage?” Mr Toop asked....
...Amgen has less capital equipment than it did in 2006 and spends only a fraction more on R&D....
...Drew responded that there might be additional flexibility on the RWA reduction mandate, and requested a meeting to review the unwind plan to “maximize p [&] l.”30 Maximise P&L, you say? Game on!...
...So I was interested to dig out this titbit from an interview with the new director of Qatar’s Mathaf museum, Dr Abdellah Karroum, in the French Quotidien de l’Art....
...It set up the constitutional convention under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and triggered the long and contorted process which led, eventually, to the Treaty of Lisbon in December 2009....
...Otherwise, they’d only have taken, well 11 years.” In all, Leonard invested $250,000. But was it worth it? “Sure....
...them apart: one (Lindsay in the title role) is big, green and trumpet-eared, the other (Harman as Lord Farquaad) shuffles around on his knees, while appearing improbably gymnastic with the little trompe-l’...
...Marketing materials stated that the Squared CDO’s investment portfolio was selected by GSCP (NJ) L.P. – the investment advisory arm of GSC Capital Corp....
...The comic features Mr Schwarzenegger as an all-action, ex-California governor out to defeat bad guys from the sinister G.I.R.L.I.E....
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