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...Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...I tasted a range of its wines, including a no-added-sulphites red cleverly named On Souf(f)re Pas that Flache had devised. I was impressed....
...In another reported exchange, Forlano replied that “Rigatoni”, a nickname for Viggiano, “literally works for” Blackstone, and Bleckley responded, “F[**]k u should’ve told me f[**]k the feds.”...
...I’m a firm believer that 230 needs significant modifications....
...In the firm’s perhaps most consequential moment, in 2009 it hired three Merrill Lynch healthcare dealmakers: Alan Hartman, Mark Robinson and Richard Girling....
...With private equity deals now accounting for over 25 per cent of global M&A activity — a record market share — the collective power of the leading groups is starting to attract the attention of regulators...
...Chevron, ExxonMobil and Glencore were among the nearly 17,000 companies graded an “F”....
...Rival start-up Rivian has already launched its own electric pick-up, and Ford is set to launch an electric version of its F-150 in the spring....
...Bertelsmann declined to comment on details of the sale process but said: “We have stated in the past that Penguin Random House wants to grow organically and through M&A. This is still the case.”...
...I’m telling you, you can take all those things, but if you get coronavirus, it’s too late.”...
...One thing to start: Brooks Brothers, the centuries-old purveyor of American business wear whose suits were sported by presidents including Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy, is to file for bankruptcy protection...
...Robinson, a consultant, argues that public spending is set to rise substantially relative to economic output....
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
...We spend time defining what it means, we grade every investment on the different metrics so when somebody comes in and says, ‘I really love this business, it’s an A franchise’, I’m like: ‘Really?...
...Vodafone could be on the hook for an unwanted €1.3bn bill if it loses out, which would give the UK company yet another M&A-related headache to sit alongside its Indian fiasco....
...Who said Brexit was bad for M&A. Foreign buyers are having a great time: the UK is on sale....
...“The US government is going to take care of the M&A question by making it more difficult to do deals,” said Jim Tierney, a chief investment officer at AllianceBernstein....
...“F**k, I don’t know what to do with this . . . he wants his money.”...
...Parrot, who joins from SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, will be based in California....
...● M&G has appointed Sander van der Wel as senior institutional business development manager....
...Just like they said to Jackie Robinson, just stay here in the Black League . . . You cannot be deterred.”...
...Pacino got f***ed four times . . . so they gave him his long-overdue Oscar and then Denzel gets his make-up-call Oscar for Training Day.”...
...Many is the vintage — I’m thinking of you, 1988, in particular — in which tannins seemed to outlast the fruit and, after years in a cellar, all a bottle has to offer the drinker is the chewy vestige of tannin...
...BMO Global , the Canadian owner of F&C Asset Management , says there is no need for substantial changes....
...Play Dubai and you might make half a million dollars — ‘Oh, that’s more money than I’m going to make on my entire f***ing album.’”...
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