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...J&J has denied its talc contains asbestos and can cause cancer. This isn’t Jones Day’s first rodeo....
...The measures used by the super-rich to disguise ownership date back to the Middle Ages, when noblemen fighting wars overseas placed their land in trusts, while retaining rights to use the land and benefiting...
...The 2008 crisis heralded a land grab by the top 15 boutiques, who grew their collective share of M&A fees from 11.8 per cent in 2005 to 18.2 per cent five years later, according to data from Refinitiv....
...Gaffney J Feskoe, President, Halifax Associates LLC, Woodbury, CT, US...
...Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and BTG Pactual are the joint bookrunners on the deal. No pricing terms were disclosed in the filing....
...The company, part of UK-based life assurer Prudential, has hired a couple of senior sales people to open a US office, which means criss-crossing the country to land allocations from large institutional investors...
...It has already brought in Matthew Taylor and David Smith, former Ford executives who were most recently the chief executives of JCB and Jaguar Land Rover ....
...As a lawyer, he specialised in land and property, which would serve him well when he gave it all up to be a vintner and set about buying existing vineyards or vine-plantable land throughout California....
...Mr Blackhurst, who lost out to Andy Clarke as Asda boss, will join new commercial director Adrian Mountford, former head of general merchandise at J Sainsbury, who was recently hired by Matalan....
...The 91-year-old Crawley-based company, one of the biggest employers in the region, brought in Matthew Taylor and David Smith, the former bosses of JCB and Jaguar Land Rover, in June to prepare for a sale...
...But Shinsei, a small player in a land of banking giants, subsequently floundered, bleeding red ink from its consumer finance holdings....
...Demands from pension trustees for big cash injections have become a feature of buy-outs, particularly in the UK, where the issue has torpedoed deals such as the Qatar Investment Authority’s offer for J Sainsbury...
...However, Ford plans to bundle the sale of Land Rover and Jaguar together, leaving out the option of buying only Land Rover, people close to the situation report....
...Ford is also slimming down and putting priority on its core US volume business by moving to divest itself of Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo....
...It is thought to have sounded out or be about to approach figures such as Paul Myners, chairman of the Guardian Media Group and Land Securities, and Sir Steve Robson who is a non-executive of Royal Bank...
...The emergence of Gulf funds with significant stakes in HSBC and J Sainsbury this year has thrust the region’s investors onto the British high street for the first time....
...Ford Motor is in early talks with Jac Nasser, its former chief executive, about selling luxury brands including Jaguar and Land Rover to a private equity arm of JP Morgan, where he now works....
...Its strong land bank should protect it from too much buffeting, though the slowdown in the second-hand market was holding up sales of its trademark large four- and five-bed houses and helped to explain its...
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