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...Anyone concerned that dubiously dated pickled sharks might loom large in the collateral pool can breathe a sigh of relief: Damien Hirst is not listed among the top five artists in the collateral pool....
...Damien Geradin, an antitrust lawyer who has represented companies in probes against Apple and Google, said fines did not work as deterrents....
...But in the past 12 months it has lost M&A partner Jenny Hochenberg, to “magic circle” law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and corporate partner Damien Zoubek, who also left for Freshfields....
...to advise clients on what it claims is an “increasingly complex and active regulatory environment” for big business that includes antitrust crackdowns under President Joe Biden’s regime and government probes...
...The complaint is part of a wider probe led by Brussels into whether Google is abusing its monopoly in online ads....
...Damien Geradin, an antitrust lawyer who has represented companies in probes against Apple and Google, said: “These companies have had a free ride for 10 years....
...Despite the regulatory probes, and the fact that Trump’s Truth Social platform has no app or business plan, the media venture has released some lofty valuations....
...Since the start of the year the regulator has launched antitrust probes against Google and Apple and is planning another against Facebook....
...Kate Beioley and Alex Barker report that after releasing a study on the sector, the CMA said it was ignoring calls for a formal probe, which would allow it to use significant enforcement powers....
...The probe comes in response to a complaint filed by two MEPs, Damien Carême and Marisa Matias, and NGO network Change Finance, who expressed “[concerns] about the adequacy of the measures presented by BlackRock...
...Publishing a report into the sector on Tuesday, the Competition and Markets Authority said it was ignoring calls for a formal probe, which would allow it to use significant enforcement powers....
...The executives, who include Keith Enright, Google’s chief privacy officer, and Damien Kieran, Twitter’s global data protection officer, are likely to offer more transparency and more access to data for consumers...
...She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, the year in which Damien Hirst won with his formaldehyde-preserved cow and calf....
...Ellison probes the fragility and falseness of the online persona, where fantasy and narcissism meet in new identities....
...Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, though less likely to win, was made for even less at $3.3m....
...But the project was then thrown into jeopardy following two judicial inquiries and a probe by Italy’s antitrust competition authority into the deal. 4.)...
...Attempts to probe them about any link with their own art prove futile....
...Call me a Luddite, but I’m beginning to look forward to a steak cooked with fallible human judgment rather than a digital probe thermometer and a wallchart of Whitehall-approved temperatures....
...Last year, Merck set aside $950m for fees relating to the government probe....
...Early sales included reproductions of Damien Hirst’s dot prints, which now sell at up to 10 times their original price....
...The results of the probes so far are startling: one company in which Bolton invested owned only half the number of stores it claimed to hold, while another was unknown to three of the four companies it said...
...A deepening probe into Samsung, South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, has put Roy Lichtenstein, the late US pop artist, in the headlines a decade after his death....
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