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...Ebanks and I . . . had meetings with a number of local officials, agencies and law firms [in Hong Kong and Singapore] on matters related to opening and operating a Cayman Islands government office,” said Gene...
...Influential proxy advisers Glass Lewis have recommended investors withhold their support for the reappointment of Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza and chair John Thompson to the board of the company...
...Influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis has urged investors to vote against the reappointment of the chief executive and chair of Illumina, the world’s largest gene sequencing company, saying the pair have...
...Japan is investing in UK life sciences for the first time with funding for a project that backs advanced treatments such as cell and gene therapies. Can technology’s “zoomers” outrun the “doomers”?...
...Activism has historically been dominated by the likes of Carl Icahn and Trian Partners’ Nelson Peltz — both of whom turned to old-school tactics and launched boardroom battles at gene sequencing company...
...Gary Guthart told the Financial Times there was depth on the board and management of the world’s biggest gene sequencing company beyond the two executives, who had been targeted in a proxy battle waged by...
...Other large Japanese developers are also on the prowl, three M&A lawyers told the Financial Times’s Leo Lewis. But it’s not just about planting flags in glitzy US neighbourhoods....
...Now, the Cayman Islands is fighting back, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Mercedes Ruehl and Leo Lewis report. Its financial services minister André Ebanks visited Singapore and Hong Kong this month....
...But then he discovered the works of the Gene Fama, the University of Chicago professor and father of the efficient markets hypothesis. It all suddenly makes sense, Wheeler thought....
...“We are deeply disappointed to see the government prioritising unpopular technologies rather than focusing on the real issues [such as] unhealthy diets and a lack of crop diversity,” said Jo Lewis, the association...
...He recalls the sale of Cambridge-based gene sequencing company Solexa to the US company Illumina in 2007 for $600mn....
...But Gene Kelly’s umbrella dance has got to be the greatest single moment in any musical ever made. I marvel at all those talents in Tinsel Town back then who made the magic happen....
...“To date there are no drugs that slow, halt or reverse the progression of Parkinson’s disease,” said Professor Patrick Lewis, an expert on the condition at London’s Royal Veterinary College, who was not...
...One example is Dave Lewis at Tesco. He had to deal with an accounting scandal shortly after his appointment as chief executive....
...Available on BBC iPlayer now Letter in response to this article: Marvelling at those Tinseltown talents / From David Lewis, Author, ‘Broadway Musicals: A Hundred Year History’, Oakland,...
...Kevin Lewis, partner, Sidley Austin Kevin Lewis has decades of experience advising clients in the airline industry....
...As a journalist, and daughter of a journalist, cynicism is in the genes....
...The Premonition: A Pandemic Storyby Michael Lewis, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton & Company $30 Lewis, author of Liar’s Poker and The Big Short, has another deserved bestseller with The Premonition....
...That caution is echoed by Adam Lewis of digital customs broker Clear-It....
...The 2003 book by Michael Lewis — a favourite among financial journalists — tells Beane’s story as general manager of the baseball team Oakland Athletics....
...A new entrant into this effort is Tropic Biosciences, a UK-based biotech company, that is using gene editing to develop a banana that can beat the disease. But can it solve the problem in time?...
...The proxy firms Glass Lewis, Pirc and ISS had recommended that shareholders vote against this condition this year given the risk of “creeping control”, they said....
...Last year a Chinese scientist shocked the world by claiming that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies....
...The Celgene takeover is the largest of several significant pharma and healthcare deals in the first quarter, with others including Roche’s $4.8bn purchase of gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics and Johnson...
...Producers: Ruth Lewis-Coste and Fiona Symon...
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