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...Qatar Investment Authority and was the face of a UK spending spree that took Doha stakes in London’s Shard skyscraper, Chelsea Barracks, Canary Wharf, London Stock Exchange and the Berkeley and Connaught hotels...
...Talks have been held with several parties but discussions with Emirati ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s conglomerate Dubai Holding are at a more advanced stage, the people said....
...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...Prominent tech investors have flocked to the kingdom, sometimes with personal invites from Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $620bn sovereign wealth fund....
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...“[Trump] was elected because [a] segment of America is fed up with the consistency and transparency of the elitists,” said Barrack, a private-equity investor who had sold the future president a $400m hotel...
...Job moves White & Case has hired Megren Al-Shaalan, a former senior legal adviser at the Saudi Royal Court, as a partner. He is based in Riyadh....
...The 11th edition of Abu Dhabi Art runs until Saturday (Manarat Al Saadiyat)....
...Consider Oyo, the fast-growing Indian hotel chain founded by Ritesh Agarwal....
...The 63-year-old was the most recognisable figure hauled into Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s dragnet purge against princes, businessmen and bureaucrats who were held at Riyadh’s luxury Ritz Carlton hotel...
...Activists say the remaining suspects held at the Ritz-Carlton could be transferred to al-Hayer prison outside Riyadh, a high security facility where 1 1 princes who led a rare protest last week are also...
...Most of the detainees have been held at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, which has been turned into a deluxe prison for those rounded up....
...“The next day they have turned the hotel into a prison — what sort of message does this send us? We some need stability.”...
...The list also includes the Churchill — owned by an investment vehicle belonging to the former prime minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jaber al-Thani, known simply as HBJ — and the Carlton Hotel in Cannes...
...Mr al-Husseiny and Mr al-Qubaisi were dismissed from IPIC and Aabar last year....
...For another, it was an acknowledgement that despite its fame and status, the hotel, owned since 1979 by the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed, was becoming an anachronism....
...In 1995, under pressure from his lenders, Mr Trump surrendered control of the Plaza Hotel in New York to investors from Singapore and Saudi Arabia, including Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud...
...Arora, who is based in Dallas, plans to expand the group’s portfolio by 50 per cent over the next few years through such high-profile projects as Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon and Al Faisaliah at Durrat Arriyadh...
...Wild nights appear mandatory – unsurprising given Salt is held at the Bellagio, the showy hotel and casino on the Vegas strip famed for its dancing fountains....
...DIC, whose founding chief executive Sameer al-Ansari left in 2010, has for the past few years been operating with 22 executives, down from its peak of 150 professional staff....
...Dubai Holding has several cash-generative assets, such as the hotel group Jumeirah and the business park operator Tecom....
...The conglomerate Dubai Holding, owned by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has several cash-generating domestic assets, such as hotel chain Jumeirah and business park Tecom....
...After buying the London department store in 2010 from Mohammed al-Fayed, Qatar Holding now plans to use the brand in Harrods hotels in cities including London, New York and Paris....
...Dubai Group, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, declined to comment....
...In effect, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the Gulf emirate’s prime minister and chairman of Qatar Holding, called Mr Glasenberg’s bluff after the Glencore boss claimed he was ready to walk away from the...
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