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..., the managing partner responsible for CVC Capital Partners’ sports investments, including the Six Nations, the annual tournament pitting Europe’s top national teams against each other that wraps up in Lyon...
...On a trip to Stamford Bridge this week, I saw first hand the potential in front of US investors Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly....
...The Restaurant Group has rejected hedge fund Oasis’s push to gain a board seat, setting the stage for a battle between the Wagamama-owner and the activist investor....
...News round-up Glencore admits bribery after UK corruption probe (FT) Why Ocado’s incessant cash burn isn’t such a bad thing (FT) North American entrepreneurs in talks to buy Lyon in €800mn deal (FT)...
...Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired J Matthew Lyons as a corporate partner. He joins the Austin office from Shearman & Sterling....
...In France, where there has been a more confident return to offices, it has managed to retain all of its staff and opened a new site in Lyon this month....
...Christopher Rossbach, an investor in Sika at J. Stern & Co, is highly dismissive of Saint-Gobain....
...Gerard Lyons, Chief Economic Strategist, Netwealth Investments I expect the UK economy to grow just under 2 per cent, with a faster pace of growth than in 2017....
...At some point today’s investors are going to suddenly see all this. It won’t end well — it never does....
...Like most American investors in sports, the former owner of the LA Dodgers baseball team is a canny businessman rather than a sugar daddy....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd Whatever the final Brexit deal, the UK will remain part of the EU next year and hence will have very limited leeway to control...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd Feel about the same as 12 months ago Back then, we believed that the decision to leave the EU would be negative for the UK economy...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We believe that the Bank of England will probably stay put in 2017....
...But a dealmaker at one such firm says professional investors would demand as much as £150m in return for assuming responsibility for the BHS pension deficit....
...His name was Jock Bowes-Lyon, a partner at stockbroker Rowe & Pitman. His career was a lot less happy and glorious than that of his niece....
...Ltd Inflation will increase materially into 2017, given the weaker exchange rate and now also rising oil prices....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd There remains a high level of uncertainty over the policy platform the incoming US administration will adopt....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd In our view, he will need to use the headroom, because we expect the economy to be weaker than the Office for Budget Responsibility...
...So wrote Alastair Lyons, chairman of the insurance broker, in an introduction to the company’s 2013 annual report....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We do expect the UK economy to slow down significantly in 2017....
...A former banker, Mr Lyons bought at twice that price in October after sustaining a heavier loss on shares he bought a year ago....
...A series of buyout houses, hedge funds and other investors are scrambling to minimise losses from Towergate, one of the UK’s largest insurance brokers....
...John Lyon, a professor at Warwick Business School and former pharma industry executive, said GSK was “pinning [its] hopes on a turnaround of fortunes from 2016 onwards, while ongoing restructuring seeks...
...The Lyons Review of UK housing, commissioned by the Labour party, reckons that in 1977 three-quarters of new houses were built by small enterprises....
...Since then, the business has been run on a day-to-day basis by Alastair Lyons, interim executive chairman....
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