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...Kevin Cameron Glass-Lewis is the second of the two dominant proxy advisers, and is led by its co-founder Cameron, a former lawyer....
...This isn’t Jones Day’s first rodeo....
...Instead, it consists of what S&P Dow Jones calls “leading companies from leading industries”....
...Job moves Jones Day has hired Josh Sterling as a partner in its financial markets practice....
...Rothschild & Co has appointed Charles Martin, a veteran lawyer at the UK law firm Macfarlanes, as a senior adviser in London....
...Team DD is watching, from the safety of our couches at least for now, for the industry’s next plot twist....
...This time round, the tech industry has anointed a new Buffett-like figure: Egon Durban, pictured below, the co-chief executive of $40bn private equity group Silver Lake....
...makes the industry more investable”....
...The upheaval has fuelled budget cuts and consolidation across the industry....
...This week, my own industry enjoys such a moment as Google at last drops its bias towards news on the internet needing to be free....
...Meanwhile, Google has launched the Digital News Initiative, an olive branch to co-develop products with the news industry, including promoting subscription-based sites....
...Lord & Taylor’s historic flagship store building was last month sold to WeWork, the co-working start-up for $850m....
...Chris Jones, chief analyst for automotive at research company Canalys, told the Nikkei Asian Review that he expected consolidation in the ride-hailing industry “in the months to come” and that Uber would...
...Hollywood film studio behind The Hunger Games and Orange is the New Black, hasagreed to buy US premium cable channel Starz for $4.4bn including debt, in the latest push for scale in a consolidating media industry...
...If so, the news industry is long overdue a ray of morning light....
...Online estate agent Zoopla says its listings are returning to growth after they were hit by the debut of the industry’s own site OnTheMarket....
...Through Google Ventures and Google Capital, the internet company has become one of Silicon Valley’s most active investors, backing companies in a range of industries....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent to 1,966.97, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.8 per cent to 16,510.19. The Nasdaq Composite was nearly unchanged at 4,828.96....
...A second issue is that the proxy advisory industry is itself concentrated....
...After a decade it would rather forget, the news industry suddenly has wind in its sails....
...The S&P 500 climbed 1.3 per cent to 2,065.95, returning to the level at which it opened the year, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 1.5 per cent to 17,895.22....
...The rally in energy producers supported a rise in the S&P 500 of 2 per cent to 2,012.89, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.7 per cent to 17,356.87....
...James Debney, the company’s chief executive, blamed lower sales on high inventory levels across the industry....
...Beer brewers were buoyed on Monday by prospects of industry-wide consolidation following Heineken’s rejection of a takeover offer from SABMiller....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent to 1,960.96 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 5.7 points to 16,851.84. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4 per cent to 4,397.93....
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