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...behind the newly reopened fine dining restaurant Laurent in a pink and white pavilion just off the Champs-Élysées, and Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, a country hotel about 45km outside Paris housed in a former Rothschild...
...“In England, people live in the country, and there is a way of life with hotels and pubs and antiques shops, but country villages in France, it’s like everyone is hiding,” says de Castellane....
...Economic data: S&P Global/Cips manufacturing purchasing managers’ index data is published for the EU, France, Germany, Italy and the UK....
...objets de vertu such as needle-cases, perfume bottles and snuffboxes on show, the most extraordinary are those embellished with sumptuous jewelled and enamelled neo-renaissance mounts by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild...
...France’s Dassault family and Italian entrepreneur Giammaria Giuliani will also take part. The Dassaults and Giuliani were already investors in Rothschild alongside Concordia....
...France’s best-known independent investment bank is set to reverse out of an ownership structure copied by Goldman Sachs when it floated in New York in 1999....
...Top-end vintage Champagne is down 17.2 per cent, while wines from France’s Rhone valley have lost 19.4 per cent in price on average, according to Liv-ex indices....
...The competition between the two institutions has been a constant in corporate France for decades....
...The Rothschilds are in talks with some of France’s wealthiest families, including the Peugeots, to help buy out minority shareholders in its Franco-British investment bank and remove it from the public markets...
...France’s Dassault family, with investments stretching from newspapers to aviation, as well as Italian entrepreneur Giammaria Giuliani will also take part....
...English Premier League club Brentford has hired Rothschild to explore a full or partial sale by British owner Matthew Benham....
...The institution — which counts Emmanuel Macron, president of France, British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Wilbur Ross, who is known on Wall Street as the “king of bankruptcy”, among its alumni — was effectively...
...To put it bluntly, the 10 most valuable US equities are larger than the market capitalisations of Japan, UK, France, Canada and Germany combined....
...France’s billionaire Pinault family has agreed to buy a majority stake in Hollywood talent manager Creative Artists Agency from private equity firm TPG in the largest-ever transaction for the family’s holding...
...He previously was CEO of an investment holding group and led Rothschild’s restructuring team in Germany. Asset manager Golub Capital has hired Andrea Picard to co-head global institutional sales....
...Christie’s will offer 600 objects valued around $20mn from the Rothschild family, amassed mostly in the 19th century across two generations in France....
...But the stronger financial positions of first growth châteaux, such as Mouton Rothschild or Château Margaux, mean they can keep any unsold wine inventory themselves....
...A joint venture with France’s legendary Château Mouton Rothschild, it was conceived after a trip by Guilisasti’s father to the top Bordeaux vineyards in the 1990s in search of fine winemaking expertise....
...EU finance ministers meeting in France failed to reach an agreement on reforming EU rules on government debt and deficits....
...A Parisian Affair Binance used aggressive tactics in France to solicit people in some of the country’s most deprived areas, Akila Quinio reports in the FT’s Alphaville....
...After a stint at Rothschild, he took over troubled retailer Rallye in 1991, then rivals Casino and Leader Price a few years later. Ensued a debt-fuelled expansion in Asia and Latin America....
...A former Rothschild investment banker, the president has courted Wall Street heavyweights, including BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink at the Élysée Palace and JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon at glitzy summits...
...That focus on breeding champions — no doubt gleaned from her days advising some of France’s largest companies as an M&A banker at Lazard — paid off....
...Earlier this year, Alexandre de Rothschild told the FT: “You can’t be half pregnant,” as he unveiled a €3.7bn deal to take Lazard’s longtime Anglo-French rival Rothschild private....
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