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...Paul Weiss also hired Morgan Stanley’s M&A chair Rob Kindler in June. The firm has a relatively small presence in London, employing more than 30 lawyers, according to its website....
...But on Friday, he warned: “We’ve been in this position before so I’m almost afraid to be optimistic given there have been false dawns.”...
...“That’s why I’m always squinting at my phone.” Truth-bomb to Greta: squinting at your phone is as much a giveaway of middle age as wearing spectacles....
...I never have any question that I’m not getting the straight dope from them,” he says. He is lucky....
...His fellow London-based partners Kanesh Balasubramaniam, Matthew Merkle and Deirdre Jones have also made the switch, according to people familiar with the details....
...Wendy Morrison Design, Deirdre Dyson, Jan Kath and Amber Rankin all take an artistic as well as artisan approach to rug-making....
...“I usually vote DUP but I’m going for the TUV this time,” said John Spence, 54, a labourer, in Belfast. “The DUP are not hard enough for me. Sinn Féin are getting everything they want.”...
...Deirdre Dyson’s new collection (£960 per sq m for hand-knotted designs) depicts swirls and ripples in shades of aqua taking inspiration from the sea....
...“I’m a tough negotiator,” he said. “I’m not going to buy something that I think isn’t fit for purpose.”...
...Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Scienceby Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Chicago Press $30 McCloskey is a unique figure in economics....
...The writer is an associate professor at Texas A&M Law School Big Government is finally taking on Big Tech....
...The PR firm Edelman has hired Deirdre Latour as president of its New York office. She joins from Pearson where she served as chief corporate affairs officer....
...“I’m still putting everything together,” as she puts it in a characteristic piece of understatement....
...There is another specialising in modelling called SPI-M, and a behavioural group, or SPI-B. There is overlap between these bodies. For instance, Prof Ferguson sits on Nervtag, SPI-M and Sage itself....
...“He said, ‘John, I’ve decided I’m not smart enough to carry on as a theoretical particle physicist’.”...
...“I’m my mom’s retirement plan,” he said, according to the brief....
...Philosopher Ollivier Pourriol brings more Francophilia in The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard (Profile RRP£12.99, June), while Deirdre Bair reflects on the lives of Beauvoir and Beckett in Parisian Lives...
...(FN) + (FT) Fix it, genius Can Apple’s new retail chief Deirdre O’Brien return the Apple store to its former glory?...
...BonelliErede, the Italian law firm, has named seven new partners mostly in its corporate/M&A and PE practice. For a full list read here....
...I’m quite happy with that. If you had to rate your satisfaction with your life so far, out of 10, what would you score? It’s been great! Ten....
...Sir Humphrey: Many congratulations, Deirdre. You are now an ambassador. Dame Deirdre: Finally.SH: Those decades as a cultural attaché to Mongolia have paid off....
...Deirdre Latour is stepping down from her role as chief communications officer at General Electric. More here....
...“I’m too nervous to do it.”...
...I don’t have any confidence — I’m a different person.”...
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