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...DBRS Morningstar lifted its assessment of Athens’ creditworthiness on Friday to triple B, kicking off what is widely anticipated to be a series of upgrades from “junk” territory....
...Lawrence Baxter William B McGuire Professor of the Practice of Law Co-Director, Global Financial Markets Center Duke Law School, Durham, NC, US...
...But for me and people in the [Dian] study, we are acutely aware....
...If the bare minimum for parody is: a) decide on a target and b) hit it, this sloppy send-up of Graham — or was it hip hop? — did not qualify....
...The brainy African ex-politician not only has a Plan B, but Plans C, D, E and F....
...He told the Financial Times that he was introduced to Mr McGuire “by a mutual acquaintance” in early 2009, and had a meeting with Mr Lewis and Mr McGuire in France that summer....
...Golden Energy, a coal mining subsidiary of energy and infrastructure firm Dian Swastatika Sentosa, is estimated to have 400m tonne of reserves....
...The view has been fuelled by comments made by Richard McGuire, Mr Lewis’ representative at M&B AGM earlier this year....
...“There were serious trust issues,” Mr McGuire says. M&B says property valuation is conducted in line with industry practice, while remuneration issues raised by Piedmont have been resolved....
...Piedmont has previously said it does not have an issue with M&B over strategy, but Mr McGuire said it was concerned about “an increasing gap between revenues and profit before tax”....
...The simmering boardroom tensions burst into the open last week when M&B ousted four non-executive directors – including Piedmont’s two representatives Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon – from its board...
...The statement comes a day after M&B decided to oust Piedmont’s two board representatives – Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon – along with two other non-executive directors....
...Based on price there was limited downside,” Mr McGuire said....
...Its board representatives were Mr McGuire and Mr McMahon....
...Mr Fowle said Mr Laffin had chaired M&B “in the most difficult circumstances”....
...The letter detailed M&B’s concern at the alleged behaviour of the four former directors, which led it to make a complaint to the Takeover Panel....
...Somebody writes, “She should be repeatedly head-butted,” and “She should be flogged to within an inch of her life, the evil b–!”...
...It also said it had resolved that Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon, the two representatives of Piedmont, Mr Lewis’s investment vehicle that owns 23 per cent of M&B, should step down as directors....
...M&B alleged to the Takeover Panel that some large shareholders were working behind the scenes to gain control of the business. M&B had to resolve the “boardroom impasse”, Mr McGuire said....
...Richard McGuire, senior fixed income strategist at RBC Capital Markets, says: “So far this is a Greek story....
...Richard McGuire, who was Mr Lewis’ board representative until he was ousted last month, said: “As far as we are concerned that’s not on our agenda, never been on our agenda....
...M&B insiders claim that Mr Lewis, through his two board representatives – Richard McGuire and Douglas McMahon – vetoed Mr Norman’s candidature because he lacked experience in the pub industry....
...M&B said it had appointed Richard McGuire, president of Mr Lewis’s Tavistock Europe vehicle, as a non-executive director....
...Do you think that the current crisis is helping the Bank of England out by a) tightening monetary conditions and b) tightening consumer lending conditions, while neatly disculpating the Bank itself?...
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