Hints and tips:
...Jefferies chief executive Rich Handler has sold $65mn of his stock in the Wall Street investment bank to buy a luxury yacht from longtime client Tilman Fertitta....
...Welker is a partner at Sherborne, the investment group that led the break-up of former Hostmore owner Electra in 2021....
...The new building, just off Thames Street and overlooking the International Yacht Restoration School, fits in seamlessly with the rest of the 18th- and 19th-century waterfront; it has a bar, Studio Bar, that...
...Gone, then, are the raucous jazz-bar singalongs, the steamy bathtub chess games, the queasy yacht party “peeping”. The general plot, settings and era, however, largely remain as before....
...Just over two years ago, Credit Suisse broke new ground with a so-called synthetic securitisation of a portfolio of loans tied to the yachts and private jets of oligarchs and billionaires....
...The Italian coast, yachts, and devastating privilege: no wonder Netflix was slathering to have another crack....
...Nonetheless, McAllister’s descriptions of cotillions and Newport dinners are delicious....
...As the Russells unveil their new seaside estate in Newport, Rhode Island, their neighbour on Fifth Avenue, Agnes van Rhijn (a terrifically cutting Christine Baranski), reels from the revelation that her...
...This week the Italian car brand announced it will design yachts that can compete in international sailing competitions....
...A stand-off with banker UBS O’Connor over loans secured against his Tellurian stock over the past year stripped him of much of his shareholdings, as well as his yacht and a sprawling luxury ranch in the...
...Liberty Steel reduced output at its rolling mill in Newport, South Wales in 2022 and in January this year idled the plant as part of a UK-wide restructuring....
...A law firm consultant said a managing partner of a top firm once called his Newport, Rhode Island, holiday home, “the house that Citi built”, because of the deal he got on his mortgage....
...Here’s a bit about how Musk didn’t agree to a lower price, for example, and it helps flesh out the scene to know he’s on a yacht in Mykonos, Greece....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 3. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...July also sees the Newport Jazz and Folk festival, and then in August, “There might be a yacht or a racing regatta party” – the Queen’s Cup, or the Morgan Cup – or “some very wealthy person will have an...
...Try making your own coffin (WSJ $) — “A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore” (Twitter thread) — The haves and the have-yachts (New Yorker)...
...The sea is proving to be a cruel mistress of late. Following in the wake of the queasy yacht-based social satire Triangle of Sadness is 1899, an uncanny horror series set on a fin-de-siècle steamship....
...News round-up Newport Wafer Fab’s sale to Nexperia blocked by UK ministers (FT) Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself (Vox) Dell Technologies agrees to $1bn payment over VMware shareholder suit (...
...In September 2017, Italian shipbuilder ISA announced it had sold a new-build yacht codenamed Project Rocco, a 65m vessel scheduled for delivery in the spring of 2021....
...He also docks at least two of his luxury yachts in the district, the office said....
...Gun producer Skydance valued at $4bn after KKR-led investment (FT) Mishcon lawyers gain access to two more UK cities with merger (The Lawyer) Hong Kong hits back at US warnings over Russian tycoon’s yacht...
...London-based Epiris was founded in 2016 by a group of executives who left buyout group Electra after activist investor Ed Bramson took over....
...Most of all, she emphasises the importance of diplomacy. “If you go on dad’s private yacht while mum and dad are divorcing, you tread a very fine line,” she told me....
...Multiple yachts, lavish parties and a beachfront mansion in Miami all served to keep him in the public eye in the two decades between MicroStrategy’s two entanglements with market mania....
...When Electra exits Fridays and Hotter, a footwear group, it could be the end of a famous City name....
International Edition