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...The chief executives behind Microsoft’s planned $75bn acquisition of Activision made a last-ditch attempt to save the deal in a San Francisco federal courtroom yesterday....
...The images of the student, made by Colombian artist Juan Pablo Machado, are also vital to the channel’s purpose....
...Pablo Riveroll, Head of Latin American Equities at Schroders, estimated a valuation between $5bn and $8bn....
...Sites run by Spain’s Grupo Joly, the publishing company, saw a 76 per cent increase in time spent on their pages from February to March, as readers sought details on how the crisis was affecting their neighbourhood...
...Pablo Pallas has left Citigroup to join Nature Infrastructure Capital, an investment fund based in London, according to Bloomberg....
...Three smaller deals which priced in 2016 — Paragon Commercial, Midland State and Argentina’s Grupo Supervielle — are all up....
...Sotheby’s last week sold Pablo Picasso’s La Gommeuse for $67.5m....
...“We are talking about potentially very significant amounts of money,” said Alfonso Lamadrid de Pablo, a senior associate at Brussels law firm Garrigues, “that no one — perhaps including the commission —...
...Alvaro Goncalves is Managing Partner and CEO of Grupo Stratus. He is also a representative of Brazil to the boards of both Emerging Markets Private Equity Association and LAVCA...
...corporate cafeteria, you can sit in the California sunshine, drink a smoothie and gaze over at posters from the company’s Think Different advertising campaign, showing Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Pablo...
...“I think it’s a good law,” says Nizan Guanaes, head of Grupo ABC, Brazil’s largest advertising group....
...Meanwhile, Carlyle also announced it had taken a controlling stake in Grupo Qualicorp, a firm which provides access to private health insurance in Brazil in a deal with a total value of equity and debt of...
...Companies which have postponed their IPOs recently include Moscow-based UralChem Holding and Grupo T-Solar Global of Madrid....
...He might have become the Pablo Escobar of his day, had he not met Horace Bixby, a legendary Mississippi pilot....
...her creditworthiness with money that she regularly sends home to support her unemployed sister, Rosa, Ms De Coreas has secured credit from Integral, a local micro-finance institution, to buy a house in San...
...We weren’t going to start that early, but somebody told us the [San Francisco] Chronicle would be there.”...
...Pablo Isla Professional managers are still a rarity in Spain....
...Copper and zinc prices reached new records on Wednesday amid renewed supply concerns after Grupo Mexico said it would close its San Martin copper, silver and zinc mines because of prolonged strike action...
...It was the Azcarraga family, which controls Televisa, that founded Univision’s forerunner in 1961 when they rebroadcast their programming across the border in San Antonio, Texas....
...Aided by a decline of 1,300 tonnes in LME stocks, three-month zinc rose 1.4 per cent to a fresh record at $2,032.5 a tonne after Grupo Mexico said it had no date for restarting production at its San Luis...
...Shares in Sovereign Bancorp jumped 5 per cent on Friday amid increasing shareholder opposition to its proposed sale of a $2.4bn stake to Spain’s Grupo Santander....
...Additional reporting by Mark Mulligan in Madrid and Simon London in San Francisco...
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