Hints and tips:
...Goldman Sachs has hired HSBC senior banker James Keller for a private debt role, Bloomberg reports....
...But the country is only ripe for M&A in theory....
...“I’m just going to go to lawyers . . . I’m dying to talk to other people about it. I’m dying to talk to the press.”...
...GSK has named Burberry’s chief operating and financial officer Julie Brown as its new finance chief....
...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...
...“It’s a secret project I’m working on,” he says slyly, moving quickly on. Stewart built his career “on hats — not headpieces or fascinators, but proper brims and crowns”, he says....
...I’m a technologist. This is not about anti-tech.”...
...Golden, Managing Partner at Revolution Ventures.Veronica M. Hagen, retired President and CEO of Polymer Group, Inc. (later renamed AVINTIV Specialty Materials Inc).Julie A....
...“And, I’m afraid, much more violent.”...
...“I’m the one that has to tell them the bad news.” The fire sale in Texas is just a small part of the worldwide value destruction caused by the oil decline....
...Right now, an Indian lady is growing things — I’m frankly not sure what they are — a type of basil and spinach I’ve never seen. I’m looking forward to her harvest.”...
...Ms Abramson acknowledged the competition for talent, saying: “I sometimes feel I’m playing Whac-A-Mole because Bloomberg [is] dangling some hot offer at someone, or ESPN or the Huffington Post.”...
...One of his many disciples, Doug Braunstein, head of Americas investment banking for JPMorgan Chase, said: “I regard Bruce as the father of modern M&A....
...That marked the lowest quarterly level in global M&A volume – and in the actual number of deals announced – since the third quarter of 2004....
...Julie MacIntosh, US mergers and acquisitions correspondent, interviewed Robert Pruzan, co-founder of Centerview Partners, in New York....
...Gleacher was formed in 1990 by Mr Gleacher, who had been global M&A head for Morgan Stanley and, prior to that, helped found Lehman Brothers’ M&A banking practice in the late 1970s....
...Henrik Aslaksen, co-head of global M&A at Deutsche Bank, said boards of bid targets had few other choices, so it was a good time for acquirers to strike....
...Jimmy Elliott, global M&A head for JPMorgan, said the reputational boost the bank has received for weathering the credit crisis to date has spilled over into its M&A advisory business and other operations...
...Ram Ray, Silver Spring, MD, USA Susan Breakefield Fulton: An annuity is not an investment; it is a promised stream of income....
...Useful for: MDs who want to sparkle magic dust on their annual staff message....
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