Hints and tips:
...Francesca DiMattio: Wedgwood is at Pippy Houldsworth, London, from 17 November to 23 December...
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired senior private equity partners Ian Barratt and Sinead O’Shea from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London, per Financial News....
...Crypto craziness Kobus Steyn thought he’d found a whale of a client. Then his assignment turned from make-work to murder, the FT reports....
...Iger’s Sun Valley entourage included Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment, film chief Alan Bergman and theme parks head Josh D’Amaro — all of whom are considered potential successors....
...The entrepreneur’s name has emerged in an alleged half-billion-dollar international fraud at commodities group Trafigura, the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu in London and DD’s Kaye Wiggins report....
...(Lawyers for O’Sullivan said they were unable to respond because they hadn’t been instructed to do so.)...
...My favourite is by an artist named Francesca Battistelli....
...Goldman veteran Tim O’Neill is retiring after nearly four decades at the Wall Street investment bank, per Bloomberg....
...That’d be a nice chunk of change considering dealmaking has slowed just about everywhere else....
...In his defence, he’d already put more than $125mn into the business by that point, becoming one of its largest backers....
...Just not in the way they’d hoped, writes the FT’s Cat Rutter Pooley. Casualties expected Investment bankers are bracing for rounds of job cuts across Wall Street as dealmaking fizzles....
...In the spirit of bridge-building, the Disney boss told the FT that he’d “love” to get on board with Loeb’s call for Disney to purchase Comcast’s 33 per cent stake in streaming service Hulu, but said that...
...McKinsey, Bain and Boston Consulting Group have unveiled one of the biggest rounds of pay rises for new hires in more than two decades, the FT’s Michael O’Dwyer reports....
...At his alma mater, Dartmouth College, there’s even a “Leon D Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies”. Perhaps then, it’s not surprising that the bard showed up in his latest legal missive....
...O’Grady’s exit follows the departure of other senior officials from AIB and PTSB....
...He told the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu last month that H2O’s investors should get repaid before the year is out. It’s not the only potential large bill facing the flamboyant financier, however....
...And frankly, any show that has the superb Sharon D....
...Heaven and Hell of a less chemical nature are surveyed by Bart D Ehrman in his history of notions of the afterlife (Oneworld RRP£20/Simon & Schuster RRP$28, April)....
...The secret to toddler psychology, says Kathleen O’Connor, associate professor at London Business School, is the idea that “if that guy can do it, I can do it, too”....
...Interrupt a “no” if you have to, says Ms O’Connor. You can say: “I appreciate your time, you’ve given me some things to think about. I’d like to continue the conversation and come back with answers.”...
...The Monstrous Child, by Francesca Simon, Profile/Faber, RRP£9.99 Horrid Henry Simon’s debut for older children takes inspiration from bleak Norse myth....
...Francesca, who did not want her last name published, is a third-year at University Campus Suffolk, a multi-college institution spread across the county....
...One can see why Val McDermid said that she wished she’d written it....
...Collected Poems , by Sean O’Brien, Picador, RRP£20 From the surety of his first collection The Indoor Park (1983), O’Brien sustains a 30-year career in verse, with a near-icy hand for precise expression...
...with Con O’Neill and five actresses, all [set] in his mind, a very kaleidoscopic thing …We did no business whatsoever....
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