Hints and tips:
...A former top investment banker at Centerview Partners did not strike a valid agreement to become a full-fledged partner at the elite advisory firm during a restaurant meeting held more than a decade ago,...
...The greater impact has come from the policy response: in many countries, smoking is now banned in workplaces, bars, restaurants and on public transport....
...Some roll their eyes at the relentless schmoozing of a man who has been known to conduct multiple business lunches in the same restaurant on the same day....
...Rashid, who had been fired from Apollo and repaid the expenses, offered an intriguing defence: He said he believed Apollo, not the funds, was reimbursing him for, among other things, restaurant boondoggles...
...It’s rare for buyout partners to become executives of the companies they own. Cutting costs, 3G sold off the 1,300 company-owned restaurants to franchisees....
...Apollo has done deals in the restaurant and entertainment sector before but has largely focused on companies in North America. Among its past investments are the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain....
...Revellers can repair to local dives on the floating platforms of the harbour, or dance on the sand at Majilis Resort on Manda Island, opposite Shela....
...The transaction will see existing shareholders, including Swedish investment firm Valedo Partners, cash out....
...In Taipei, however, streets thronged with shoppers and restaurants were full throughout the Chinese manoeuvres. “I would say this is an ostrich mindset....
...The shape of our business, particularly our willingness to do very large investment-grade transactions, has made us an indispensable partner, and I do mean partner with the banking system....
...“He lived in the most wonderous space,” she says, “painting with views over Chania’s harbour.”...
...After a holiday in April, he returned with his partner in May to house-hunt in the capital....
...The restaurant was opened by partners Diane Bucher-Maweikere and Rachel Strack in 2011....
...A few boats bob in the harbour, but the village itself is pin-drop quiet....
...She rents a four-bedroom house five minutes from the station, where the train to London Waterloo can take less than 2 hours 30 minutes — her partner commutes twice a week for his job in tech....
...“Years later, I get to be [McMahon’s] partner....
...of private equity firm CVC Capital Partners....
...The dim sum trolley and the views over the harbour make this one of my favourite lunch spots. Two other Chinese delicacies that anyone visiting Hong Kong must try are char siu and Peking duck....
...Melissa Swift, a partner at the consultancy Mercer, sees Gen Z as being “caught in a whammy between Covid and ChatGPT”....
...Restaurants have used the scalability of online ordering to grow beyond the constraint of table covers using services such as Deliveroo and UberEats....
...He has given his team free rein to partner with chefs, curators, naturalists, foragers, distillers — the gatekeepers of the city’s culture, from all its most interesting angles....
...In July, Netflix announced it would partner with Microsoft to build an advertisement-supported tier of its streaming service....
...In 2014 it founded Harbour Energy, which is now the largest oil and gas producer in the UK’s North Sea....
...Top among them is Angela’s, a seafood restaurant on the Parade run by Lee Coad and his partner Charlotte Forsdike, and its little sister around the corner, the (walk-in only) seafood bar Dory’s....
...The restaurant has a feel of retro elegance, its main charm the original copper and wooden counter and the dusty bottles of glorious wines that line the shelves....
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