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...Kirkland & Ellis International acted as legal adviser. Credit Suisse and Evercore advised Nestle on the sale....
...Isokawa was previously a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis, and Kondracki was an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati....
...Much missed was David Higgins, the star lawyer who quit recently for Kirkland & Ellis in a reported $10m deal. Charlie Hayes, another partner, was in attendance though....
...Andy Sheppard, Carleen Anderson and Pee Wee Ellis provide support and, for the first time, there is a citywide festival fringe....
...“Demand drops off massively outside the M25” said Andrew Jay, a data centre analyst at property consultancy CB Richard Ellis....
...Luke Ellis, former GLG adviser, is head of Man’s newly formed FRM division. By share price alone, though, it has been a 24-month disaster....
...“It is far too early to conclude that September’s monthly 3.6 per cent fall is the beginning of a sustained period of declining house prices,” said Martin Ellis, chief economist at Halifax....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association: First question: probably not....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association: Inflation will fall sharply in 2012, but I’m not yet convinced it will get all the way down below 2 per cent by the end of the year, given some of the pricing...
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital: The low level of productivity is extremely disturbing....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association: I think the answer is very similar to both of these; we need policies to help the jobs market....
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital: Believing the euro was a bad idea is not the same as believing that it would be a good idea to break it up....
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital: The government wasn’t alone in expecting that the economy would by now have been strong enough to take its fiscal medicine....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association: ‘Sideways’ is the theme for 2012 – not much improvement or deterioration overall, but probably a few bumps....
...Colin Ellis, economist at Daiwa Europe, cautioned against reading too much into one month’s figures....
...“The overall message from the survey is that the construction sector remains in the doldrums,” said Simon Hayes, economist at Barclays Capital....
...Any Plan B would simply turn the economy away from external growth opportunities Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital I’m not sure an effective Plan B exists....
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital Mortgage lenders and prospective buyers are likely to remain cautious, so it’s hard to see the housing market being anything other than torpid in 2011....
...Colin Ellis, British Venture Capital Association I think the big risk here is from sovereign debt problems in the euro area....
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital The bad weather and the VAT hike will make it hard to read the underlying trend in the recovery....
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital The Bank is a victim of its own forbearance....
...Simon Hayes, Barclays Capital People should be most worried about people worrying....
...“If QE is to be effective, it has to go hand in hand with bank lending,” said Simon Hayes of Barclays Capital....
...Martin Ellis, chief economist, said he expected a “low single-digit decline”, echoing a similar change of position last month by Nationwide....
...Keri Ann Hayes, executive director of the group, which makes contributions to Republican campaigns nationally, said Mr Ellis continued to work as a consultant for the organisation....
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