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...One of the most eye-catching attendees with his shock of stand-up hair was the American importer Eric Solomon of European Cellars....
...The Trump family dominated the event on Tuesday, with speeches from First Lady Melania Trump and children Eric and Tiffany....
...The transaction should help pave the way for Praxair and Linde to carry out their long-anticipated €80bn combination....
...Linde said Sven Schneider will run the company's operations, replacing its chief executive Aldo Belloni, once its merger with US rival Praxair is completed....
...(FT) News Round-up Goldman Sachs agrees sale, leaseback of London HQ with Korea Pension Fund (FT) Deal-hungry investment bankers walk Tesla tightrope (Reuters) Linde-Praxair try to save $83 billion merger...
...Read more about Ratner in this profile by the FT's Eric Platt and James Fontanella-Khan....
...Massoudi in London — @ArashMassoudi Javier Espinoza in London — @JavierespFT James Fontanella-Khan in New York — @JFK_America Sujeet Indap in New York — @sindap Don Weinland in Hong Kong — @donweinland Eric...
...The planned merger of Germany’s Linde and Praxair of the US is also being watched by investors....
...The FT's Eric Platt and Anna Nicolaou spoke with the major rating agencies this week and crunched the numbers to get a sense of the ultimate limits on the transaction....
...of Anglo Irish Bank jailed over €7.2bn fraud (FT) France’s Engie sells Glow stake in €2.6bn deal (FT) Jefferies moves up as European banking rivals fade (FT) Taiyo Nippon, Carlyle frontrunners to buy Linde...
...The claims have cast uncertainty over an auction of US businesses that Linde and Praxair are divesting as a result of their €70bn merger....
...The FT’s Eric Platt and Javier Espinoza write that a deluge of PE-backed groups have been cutting their borrowing costs amid a record wave of loan repricings, with the terms on more than $510bn of loans...
...Eric Olsen is frank about the changes he has had to implement at LafargeHolcim since its creation last year....
...Eric Olsen, from Lafarge, was appointed the group’s chief executive....
...New chief Eric Olsen, a French-speaking American, began integrating two very different companies into the world’s largest cement group....
...On Thursday, Eric Olsen, chief executive, told investors that the “most challenging dimensions of the merger are now behind us”....
...Such fears were not helped by February’s announcement by Wolfgang Reitzle that he was stepping down as chairman to become head of the supervisory board at Germany’s Linde industrial company....
...The largest deals included Linde’s acquisition of BOC group, the industrial gases company, for £8.2bn in March 2006 followed by BASF’s June acquisition of Engelhard, the US manufacturer of catalysts, for...
...It might, however, be a suitable candidate for the attentions of activist Eric Knight of Knight Vinke, who has done sterling work preventing value destruction at VNU and bringing pressure for change at Royal...
...“When talking to people on the project, we would say ‘How would Eric use this?’” Unilever avoided talking about people, concentrating instead on what they were doing....
...One notable new name was Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, the internet search engine that is soon to go public....
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