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...Over the next decade Senequier and the team turned the insurer’s small private equity business into one of the largest in Europe, dwarfed only by Wall Street giants such as Blackstone and KKR....
...The mansion fell into the hands of receivers after a loan of about £150mn, secured against the property as well as other assets including a New York home and a plane, expired, according to three people with...
...The Marquess first financed the development of London streets full of grand stucco mansions, after buying land once known as Five Fields, “where robbers lie in wait”, according to one contemporary account...
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...Its sale of a 12.5 per cent stake to New York-based Dyal Capital earlier this year valued the company at $10bn — equivalent to publicly listed TPG, America’s fifth-largest PE firm....
...As well as providing extra cash, they add credibility to the company and its valuation in what is seen as a seal of approval from Wall Street....
...The store seemed to confirm Leicester Square’s status as London’s answer to Times Square in New York: a tacky tourist magnet that seemed to repel cynical Londoners, whom it largely served as a sticky-floored...
...Taking note of test flights by Branson et al, Ghesquière revisited space for his Louis Vuitton resort 2022 collection, with futuristic quilting and prints featuring sketches of planets and sci-fi landscapes...
...Service Providers (ie Spotify, Apple et al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...An updated New York City mansion tax, which took effect in mid-2019, added a sliding scale of charges on purchases of homes costing more than $1m....
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...US Attorney for the Southern District of New York....
...As he talked, a new obsession snagged as forcefully as the black kites which keen and hunt in circles beneath Dakar’s stunning cliffs....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...“I lived in a mansion — an 8,000 sq ft mansion — and there were only 10 of us.”...
...Andrew Simms, co-director, New Weather Institute Especially in the 10th anniversary of the full-blown financial crash of 2008, we should never again blunder so blindly into a foreseeable crisis....
...Also known as “nappy valley”, the road is dotted with branches of upper-end high-street brands and independent shops....
...The Boltons in the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea is one of the most exclusive addresses in London, yet in this street and two neighbouring roads, four times as many £15m-£25m mansions are for sale...
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...A few months after property developer Larry Silverstein bought the lease to New York’s twin towers in 2001, his $3.2bn investment was reduced to rubble by al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack....
...I lived in New York for many years and they are not as nice.”...
...he pieces together the story of Sergio, a teenage patient who left for New York, began a new life as a woman, and died shortly after....
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...Bond New York New Yorkers lucky enough to have a terrace, back garden or roof deck luxuriate in their apartments’ seasonal doubling in size....
...Then in 2011, after 27 years with Christie’s, Dolman left for Qatar, to head the private office of Sheikha Al Mayassa Al Thani, daughter of the emir and chairwoman of the Qatar Museums Authority (renamed...
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