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...The latest deal will allow Holcim’s North America unit to speed up growth and could value the standalone business at more than $30bn....
...Morgan Stanley’s soon-to-be chief executive Ted Pick and his two top lieutenants were granted restricted stock units that could net them tens of millions of dollars each in connection with their new roles...
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...On a one-off trip to see more than 50 of Sequoia’s biggest limited partners this summer, Botha and top lieutenants Alfred Lin and Pat Grady framed the changes as part of a plan to capitalise on a boom in...
...The two militaries have “seen exponential increases . . . just over the last year” in their operations on the territory they would have to defend in case of a war, Lieutenant General James Bierman, commanding...
...“We’re not Africa with a rainy season,” scoffed Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, chief of Ukraine’s defence intelligence, at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference in Kyiv last Saturday....
...James Titcombe, whose baby died after receiving poor care at a Morecambe Bay Trust hospital, and Julie Bailey, whose mother died at Stafford Hospital, had to fight lengthy battles to expose institutions...
...Corporate America is also skewered in Dare to Know (Quirk, £17.99) by James Kennedy....
...Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM, the film studio behind the James Bond franchise, for about $9bn, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Pick and Saperstein respectively lead the institutional securities and wealth management divisions, two business units at Morgan Stanley that generate about 90 per cent of the bank’s revenues....
...Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman kicked off a succession battle with a string of leadership changes at the US bank, including promoting two top deputies, Ted Pick and Andy Saperstein, to be co-presidents...
...Before he had turned 40, Abel had been elevated to president and chief operating officer of the energy unit, going on to own a valuable 1 per cent stake in it....
...Credit Suisse is closing in on the hiring of former AMP chief executive officer Francesco De Ferrari to lead its wealth management unit, per Bloomberg....
...Masayoshi Son and his lieutenants at SoftBank are the latest to try Whoop on for size after the Japanese conglomerate’s second Vision Fund led a $200m investment in the start-up, increasing its valuation...
...Follow the River Truro south of the Cornish capital — down through light-industrial units and car mechanics, past mudbanks silvered by watery winter sunlight — and, between a metal scrapyard and gas storage...
...They’ll be taking over from one of Dimon’s top lieutenants Gordon Smith, who steps down at the end of the year. It’s a clear sign that both women are among the top candidates to succeed Dimon....
...He was, after all, a close lieutenant of Stephenson and had worked on AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and Time Warner....
...On Monday, the chief executive and chairman of alternative lender Amigo Holdings quit making way for founder James Benamor, and one of his lieutenants, to move back on to the board....
...kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Now, James Benamor, owner of 61 per cent of them, is propelling himself and a lieutenant on to Amigo’s board....
...The men in rooms 216 and 218 — Gerrit Strydom and James Bethel — had held senior positions in ENRC’s African arm, the unit at the centre of the suspected corruption....
...In 1964, Congolese prime minister Moïse Tshombe hired Hoare to create and lead a 500-strong military unit, known as 5 Commando....
...Goodwin has hired James Grimwood as a partner in the law firm’s private equity group in London. Grimwood was previously at CMS....
...At 810p, the shares are close to double its asset value and ten times what they were in 2012. In 2017, the group said it would double unit sales from 1,000 to 2,000 by 2022....
...Marc Mezvinsky, who is married to Chelsea Clinton, has joined a unit of private equity firm TPG, per the WSJ....
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