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...In February, the SFO announced Nigeria would be paid just over £200,000 out of a settlement it had agreed with engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler, to pay the country back for tax revenue it was deprived...
...agent of Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Limited....
...The privately held British engineering group has bet its future on breaking into one of the world’s most competitive markets, pitting the entrepreneur against corporations like Volkswagen, Toyota and...
...Until recently, speculation had swirled that SNC-Lavalin would launch a counterbid for Amec Foster Wheeler, which last month agreed to be acquired by Scotland’s John Wood Group....
...John Wood Group agreed a £2.2bn deal for engineering services company Amec Foster Wheeler last month, while SNC-Lavalin acquired UK-listed Kentz Corporation, the oil and gas services specialist, for £1.16bn...
...The two directors backed by Third Point are Steve Miller, the non-executive chairman of AIG, and Ray Milchovich, the former chief executive of Foster Wheeler....
...The collapse of Amec’s approach for Kentz in September led to its spurned suitor launching an agreed $3.2bn cash-and-shares offer for US rival Foster Wheeler in January as part of a wave of continuing consolidation...
...In January Amec, the UK oil services group, agreed a $3.2bn takeover of Swiss peer Foster Wheeler. In August Canadian SNC-Lavalin completed a $2bn takeover of London-listed Kentz Corporation....
...Oilfield services provider Foster Wheeler jumped 6.2 per cent to $30.50 on reports that British engineering group Amec was considering a takeover move....
...Sources: Fens; FT Corporate diary Monday, 1 April African Barrick Gold holds its AGM Corporation tax year begins; corporation tax will be cut by a further one per cent to 23 per cent, with one further...
Harvey McGrath failed to attend 75% of scheduled board meetings
...political fears about the international expansion of successful Chinese companies have overshadowed the investment plans of Huawei, the telecoms equipment-maker, and state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation...
...Carnival Corporation dropped by the most in seven months on Wednesday as fears of an oil shock dragged the FTSE 100 sharply lower....
...Shares in Scott Wilson more than doubled on prospects of a bidding war on Monday after a £161m offer for the design and engineering consultancy from URS Corporation was topped by a £189m ($286m) bid by rival...
...The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle By Sara Wheeler Jonathan Cape, £20 Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth’s frozen regions....
...It is a period of significant technology change for the corporation....
...Ian McCartney, the former trade minister, recently accepted an advisory post worth up to £115,000 a year with Fluor Corporation, the US company that is part of a consortium with Toshiba bidding for the Sellafield...
...Aga Foodservice Group moved up 1.9 per cent to 427½p after Edward Truell’s Pension Corporation increased its holding to 10.2 per cent. Mr Truell is believed to be interested in Aga’s pension fund....
...Sir Norman Foster, citing its “sparse beauty”, nominated a Moulton as “the greatest work of 20th-century British design”....
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