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Talks show largest US lender’s appetite for a payments network to support its credit card business
...Other private equity deals in the agency world included Silver Lake’s investment in Ari Emanuel’s William Morris in 2012 and EQT’s investment in United Talent Agency last year....
Executives at Swiss bank believe Wall St veteran secured terms from Credit Suisse that were too generous
Teams tackling artificial intelligence models unified under leadership of DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis
...It advised talent agency William Morris Endeavor on the sale of a minority stake to private equity group Silver Lake in 2012 and the group’s acquisition of sports agency IMG the following year....
...According to Pichai, last week’s shake-up would allow Dean to focus on research, leaving Hassabis in charge of an expanded group of scientists....
...Philip Morris International and Altria, which share rights to the Marlboro brand, trade at a blended multiple of 12 times next year’s earnings, while BAT is on just 7.5 times....
...The defunct retailer Sears launched the Discover card in the 1980s, eventually appending it to the Dean Witter retail brokerage. In the 1990s, the pair merged with the posh Morgan Stanley....
...Dean Meyer has joined venture capital firm Sequoia as a partner focused on early stage investments. He was previously an investor at Vine Ventures....
...Additional reporting by Stephen Morris and George Hammond in San Francisco...
...Silver Lake first invested in Endeavor in 2012 when it was called William Morris Endeavor, a standalone talent agency run by Emanuel....
...The resignations this week are “a sign that corporations and their leaders are being roped into the culture wars”, says Professor André Spicer, dean of Bayes Business School....
...Pitzhanger Manor and its accompanying gallery have just unveiled an emotionally charged new exhibition fearing the work of British contemporary artists Idris Khan and Annie Morris....
Scandals last year have cost UK bank hundreds of millions in fines and settlements
.../ From James Morris, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, UK...
...An aggressive dealmaker, he merged Endeavor with rival William Morris, acquired sports media group IMG and Ultimate Fighting Championship, along with about 20 more transactions....
...GTCR has thrived quietly under its current co-chief executives Collin Roche and Dean Mihas who oversee everyday operations. Golder died in 2000 and Rauner stepped away after his stint in politics....
...We are meeting at Dean Street Townhouse, a restaurant opened by his friend and Soho House founder Nick Jones....
Move is the group’s third shake-up of leading roles at the company in three months
...Tobacco group Philip Morris admitted that it would “rather keep” its Russian business than sell on the Kremlin’s terms....
...KPMG and Slaughter and May may be leading on social mobility, but Helen Dallimore, a principal consultant at Byrne Dean, a workplace culture specialist, points out there is now a lot of highly visible corporate...
...The heads of the risk advisory and financial advisory service lines, Andy Morris and Richard Bell, are also among those to leave the executive group....
...“People are worried across the board,” said Steve Kram, chief executive of investment group Content Partners, LLC, and former chief operating officer of William Morris Agency....
...In 2019, she moved to one of the biggest talent agencies in the world, the US-based William Morris Endeavor....
...The industry leader was created in 2009 when William Morris Agency combined with Endeavor, led by Ari Emanuel. The group went public last year and has a market capitalisation of about $10.5bn....
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