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...Natura offloaded luxury Australian beauty outfit Aesop to industry rival L’Oréal earlier this year on an enterprise value of $2.5bn....
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...The evening opened with Cohen and the rhythm section easing into “Swinging at the Haven”, a jaunty mixture of piano vamp and walking bass swing written by the late pianist Ellis Marsalis....
...Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...Brazilian company Natura paid €1bn to acquire the business from L’Oréal in 2017....
...In an updated prospectus, Birkenstock said that it would sell stock at between $44 and $49 per share, which would raise up to $1.6bn for the company and its private equity owner L Catterton....
...US law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has launched an international raid on larger rival Kirkland & Ellis, poaching a number of private equity specialists as the battle for top lawyers intensifies...
...It was bought by French cosmetics giant L’Oréal in 2006 and later acquired for £880mn by Natura in 2017....
...A new crop of IPO candidates in CVC, General Atlantic and L Catterton may test the waters of public markets in 2024, while BlackRock continues to hunt for its “transformative” private capital deal....
...The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by the late environmental campaigner Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon, and became a pioneer in the field of ethical consumerism....
...That chimes with the insurer’s exposure to the UK, which over the next couple of years will provide some 80 per cent of operating profits, according to Panmure Gordon’s Abid Hussain....
...Gordon describes the experience as intense; she attended six days a week, working for 10 hours a day....
...L’Oréal: Its $2.5bn acquisition of luxury Australian soap maker Aesop is Nicolas Hieronimus’s boldest strategic move as the French group’s chief executive....
...Cravath, Swaine & MooreO: 6; L: 8; I: 8; Total: 22The firm’s incarcerated survivors’ initiative is a pro bono legal clinic....
...The declines are a setback for Birkenstock and its private equity owner L Catterton, the firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...Job moves Law firm Kirkland & Ellis has cut associates in California and Texas....
...Commended DLA PiperO: 6; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 21In 2021, the firm launched an artificial intelligence practice....
...The obvious precedent is the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM and opened almost exactly 60 years ago....
...Among the most interesting parts of TPG’s argument was that its own IPO and $2.7bn purchase of private credit investor Angelo Gordon made it uniquely qualified to see through a transition to a new profit...
...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...It may be that to protest doesn’t quite match Voltaire’s “écrasez l’infâme” (crush infamy), quoted by Schama....
...It is a far cry from the more minimalist approach taken by Marloe Watch Company founders Gordon Fraser, a draughtsman, and marketing consultant Oliver Goffe....
...Email your thoughts to firstft@ft.com or hit reply to this email and I may feature your comment in a future edition of FirstFT — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...have to mean a compromise on style. theofennell.com Cartridge salt & pepper grinders by Forwood Design, £165 Made of Japanese Tamo Ash and stainless steel. forwooddesign.com Hand-painted platter by Gordon...
...Unless you’re Kirkland & Ellis. The firm defended its position as the world’s highest-grossing law firm last year, increasing annual revenues nearly 8 per cent to $6.5bn....
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