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...US megadeals are slowly bringing M&A action back If a UK paper and packaging company is at the centre of a bidding war, then M&A must be back....
...M&A lawyer Jon Bowden has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a partner in Singapore. He joins from White & Case....
...I’m sure those institutions right now are embarrassed....
...“It’s like the greatest M&A advisory business.” Apollo instead opts to buy cheaply and in bulk....
...BNP Paribas has hired Apoorva Shah, Nomura’s former head of Asian M&A, to lead its UK business....
...And in the end, I’m confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time, freedom of speech,” Trump said....
...Alongside corporate CEOs from Accenture’s Julie Sweet to Mastercard’s Ajay Banga, there are big-name M&A lawyers including Paul Weiss’ Brad Karp and Cravath’s Faiza Saeed and well-known dealmakers such as...
...(Current owner Walmart, blocked by regulators from selling it to rival J Sainsbury last year, wants out and is running out of options.)...
...He said: “M&A never dies. It dies for a couple months.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Lowering the tone / From J M L Stone, London W1, UK...
...King & Wood Mallesons has hired Jake Robson as an M&A partner in its Singapore office. Robson was formerly at Morrison & Foerster....
...Victoria Rosamond has rejoined White & Case’s New York office as a partner in its M&A practice. She was previously at Katten Muchin Rosenman....
...(FT) Job moves White & Case has hired Nirangjan Nagarajah as a new partner in Melbourne in its M&A practice. He joins from Gilbert + Tobin....
...A flurry of deals saw J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam and Grey added to WPP’s portfolio. Other companies, such as the media buying giant GroupM, were created in-house....
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...Geltzeiler, consultant for Temasek Holdings.Stephen J. Girsky, Managing Partner of VectoIQ, an independent advisory firm.David G. Golden, Managing Partner at Revolution Ventures.Veronica M....
...government is very sensitive to having the renminbi shorted and considers it some kind of national disgrace to have foreign funds be able to outflank them,” notes Anne Stevenson-Yang, director of research at J...
...Most recently, France’s Natixis took a stake in Peter J Solomon last year. Sumitomo Mitsui had been an early investor in Moelis and Co....
...Investor appetite for large deals, a staple of the M&A frenzy of 2014 and 2015, had diminished, he added....
...The announcement also comes as the US M&A market is booming. Last year $4.59tn worth of M&A were announced globally. Of that, almost $2.5tn was in the US....
...J Sainsbury, one of the UK’s largest grocery chains, said in October that it was testing quicker checkout methods, including a shopping app....
...The list of packaged food companies that trade at valuations out of line with their ho-hum growth rates are all over the capitalisation spectrum from Danone ($51bn in enterprise value), J.M....
...Carlyle trumped a mixture of strategic buyers and other investment firms to buy the ortho-clinical diagnostics unit, which includes blood testing equipment, from J&J....
...He became a professional DJ as a teenager, taking the name Dr Dre from basketball star Julius “Dr J” Erving and joining the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, early exponents of the electro genre, where he took to...
...After the hearing, Mr Cuban said from the steps of the courthouse: “I’m glad I’m able to be the person who can afford to stand up to [the SEC].”...
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