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...However, Washington’s antitrust advocates want to restrain big tech bloat. That suggests these enormous investments may yet be seen as a regulatory dodge....
...Kaplan said the industry’s largest gain was on Blackstone’s buyout of hotel group Hilton Worldwide, which yielded more than $11bn in gains....
...China assembles a who’s who of private equity Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Warburg Pincus and Sequoia Capital’s soon-to-be-spun-off China unit all sent executives to a gathering at Beijing’s Tiantai hotel...
...chief warns London stock market ‘not a very attractive place’ (FT + Lex) Venture capital trusts reap more than £1bn from UK investors (FT) Washington and London crack down on financial fixers for Russian...
...Wigdor grew up in suburban Long Island and went to university in Missouri before moving to Washington DC to study law....
...At a Washington hearing into the “meme stock” episode, Griffin made little secret of his company’s success from the stock market fever....
...Hotels are adapting to a new set of “digital nomads”, offering long-stay options, while banks and other traditional employers try to reign in the wanderlust....
...“[Trump] was elected because [a] segment of America is fed up with the consistency and transparency of the elitists,” said Barrack, a private-equity investor who had sold the future president a $400m hotel...
...Following in the footsteps of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong’s purchase of the LA Times, Maryland hotel magnate Stewart Bainum has agreed to launch a non-profit...
...Recently in Fishtown I walked past a boutique hotel. It’s alarming to see how people have cashed in on this romanticised vision of the city.”...
...The Doral suffered $162m in losses between 2012 and 2018, and the Washington hotel lost $55.5m between 2016, when it opened, and 2018. 4....
...Zachary Tripp, the former assistant solicitor general at the US Department of Justice, has joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges as a partner and co-head of the firm’s appellate practice in Washington DC....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...Most recently, Barrack’s Colony Capital was slated to provide financing for the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC; in the end, Deutsche Bank provided the money instead....
...In Mr Trump’s Washington, he has come close to real power....
...Florida and Las Vegas have been strong markets for Virgin’s US airline, and the UK group has been stepping up its investment in the US with plans for a hotel in Las Vegas and a cruise line operating from...
...On moving to Washington, Mr Pruitt allegedly rented a bedroom in a Capitol Hill townhouse owned by the wife of a DC lobbyist at a below-market rate....
...Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election has intensified with the naming of a Washington grand jury, US media reported on Thursday...
...Chinese conglomerate HNA Group’s planned $416m investment in a US in-flight entertainment provider has been scrapped after failing to secure Washington’s approval, the latest regulatory setback for the globally...
...Based in Kirkland, Washington, Cascade shies away from media attention. It declined to comment on its investment strategies but it is known to invest globally and across many asset classes....
...Media: Bezos’ most high profile recent investment was his purchase of the Washington Post, the DC-based newspaper renowned for its role in breaking the news of the Watergate scandal....
...Global and African business travelers demand two- and three-star hotels as well as top-tier properties....
...The Ally IPO is the US’s biggest since Hilton Worldwide, the hotel chain operator backed by Blackstone, raised $2.7bn in December....
...Rise of the Robots On January 2, 2010, the Washington Post reported that the first decade of the twenty-first century resulted in the creation of no new jobs. Zero....
...In July, the Dubai government struggled with a messy reshuffle at Istithmar World, another of the emirate’s holding companies and a unit of Dubai World....
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