Hints and tips:
...When I tell people I’m trying to find out, most wonder if I’m referring to lab-grown meat. After I say I’m looking mainly at cows, the response, pretty much universally, is bemusement....
...Peltz is seeking board seats for himself and former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo....
...Any takeover offer would be “inter-conditional” on the demergers of both businesses, Anglo said....
...Nelson Peltz vs Bob Iger: the sequel The approach of the festive season is usually a time for coming together and burying the hatchet. That is, unless you’re Nelson Peltz....
...UBS may have to wait until it has finished integrating Credit Suisse, however, before it tackles more M&A....
...Shareholders don’t want Nelson Peltz to restore Disney’s magic....
...It’s the Inter-Generational Make-up Wars in our house....
...“He would say, ‘I’m actually not worth four-and-a-half billion dollars. I’m actually worth more like six,’’’ Cohen testified....
...in M&A....
...“I’m really interested in Scott . . . I really like his stance on some stuff.”...
...So, while the mid-blue Boss suit and tonal M&S button-down worn by Hugo, the marketing executive sitting next to Elba, is so unobtrusive as to be unnoticeable, brash is the only polite way to describe a...
...“I’m not concerned. I refuse to get distracted and not get the job done.”...
...Deploying as a metaphor the different shots that are obtained by changing a camera’s lens on set, she evoked pioneering but often forgotten figures such as Walter Tull, the first black British Army officer...
...“I’m concerned about more fights, more contests, that’s a distraction,” he said....
...One thing to start: Carlyle Group has sounded out two senior Wall Street bankers — Citigroup chief financial officer Mark Mason and outgoing Morgan Stanley chief operating officer Jonathan Pruzan — about...
...Lubega went along to speak to the enrolment officer. “I told the lady, ‘I’m a Ugandan hawking in Kenya, but in my mind I will have a diploma.’” He cleared out his savings to cover the admission fees....
...I’m not sure the Fed is quite there . . . but there has been a definite change in tone.”...
...I don’t understand why I’m here. I’m truly innocent. They blamed me for this. They set this up for whatever reason. I shouldn’t be here.”...
...The way things are going now, such a bounty might only be expected in the case of an M&A miracle....
...“I’m a sea-gypsy, in boats since I was four,” he said....
...Davis Polk has hired James Dougherty, previously Jones Day’s global chair of M&A, as an M&A partner in New York....
...Rolls-Royce has hired BP veteran Nicola Grady-Smith as chief transformation officer....
...Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon”, will be replaced by Russia’s highest-ranking military officer, Valery Gerasimov. 5....
...One thing to start: I’m Laurence Fletcher, the FT’s hedge fund correspondent....
...One thing to start: Activist investor Nelson Peltz will try to force his way on to the board of Disney after the company declined to nominate him as a director, setting the stage for one of the biggest proxy...
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