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...A new version of this is being built in China, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett report....
...He previously worked for William Blair. Smart reads Basquiat bond Sotheby’s is looking to borrow half a billion dollars with asset-backed securities, Alphaville reports....
...The attendees included former British prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major as well as media tycoons Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg....
...Blair Nimmo, chief executive of UK restructuring business Interpath Advisory, will step down in the spring, the FT reports....
...Moving to a baccalaureate is the best solution to the problem, which is why the Mike Tomlinson report ended up there in 2004....
...(JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon couldn’t make it because he’ll be in Paris with the bank’s International Council, a group chaired by former UK prime minister Tony Blair.)...
...It also boasted a formidable roster of dealmakers under founding partners, Blair Effron and Robert Pruzan....
...The plummeting value of sterling means that “everything in the UK is on sale”, said Blair Jacobson, co-head of European credit at Ares Management at DD Live....
...Comprising some 2,700 homes, it achieved some notoriety as an emblem of urban deprivation in the media 20 years later when Tony Blair chose to give his first speech there as prime minister — its monolith...
...In today’s newsletter: Centerview’s courtroom showdown Kering tries on Valentino for size The Wall Street rift putting banker pay on the stand Blair Effron likes to say that discussions over banker pay...
...DD spotted actor Idris Elba and model Naomi Campbell....
...Dressed in cargo shorts and a T-shirt he appeared onstage in the Bahamas, where his company is based, alongside Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. (Soon after, he had Lunch with the FT.)...
...At our DD Live conference in London last month, Centerview’s Blair Effron said he didn’t see M&A activity falling in the long term and emphasised the growing importance of private equity takeover activity...
...DD readers know what happened next....
...Credit Suisse’s West Coast US investment banking head Gregory Quilici has joined the boutique firm William Blair in San Francisco....
...Our opening session will feature a discussion between Centerview Partners co-founder Blair Effron and DD’s James Fontanella-Khan. To gain early-bird access to the event and find more details go here....
...And, in contrast to some of Greensill’s other Covid loans, the British taxpayer could still be on the hook, as revealed by DD’s Robert Smith....
...H2O’s travails are nothing new to regular DD readers....
...There’s also a whole host of other C-suite-level appointments you can read up on in the press release here — DD counted 14 in total....
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...Required reading: a profile on the “hard-nosed” entrepreneur — featuring models, kidnappings and garishly expensive wine — by DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Arash Massoudi....
...Read more from DD’s Miles Kruppa here....
...Blair Effron, above, co-founder of Centerview Partners, got the coveted spot of going first to give his views on the state of the M&A market....
...By pitching himself as a political chameleon somewhere between the radicalism of Mr Corbyn and the centrism of Tony Blair’s New Labour governments, Sir Keir not only hopes to reunite the UK’s opposition...
...Law firm Orrick has hired Keily Blair and James Lloyd to handle cyber and privacy enforcement and litigation in the UK and Europe as part of the company’s global cyber and security team....
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