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...Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan...
...The Brooklyn-born investor faced a setback at DuPont in 2015 when the company managed to fend off his boardroom challenge, winning support from three of its largest shareholders and retail investors....
...And the Stones Cry Out by Clara Dupont-Monod, translated by Ben Faccini (MacLehose) A sensation when it was published in France in 2021, this lyrical yet tough account of living with a disabled child was...
...To one side, at the top of the steps, is Spadina House, once home of the Baldwin family (a local political dynasty) and then the late-19th-century businessman James Austin and his descendants....
...Today, they’re joined by Chens and Diops, Smiths, Duponts and Bensaïds....
...This Thursday, FT journalists Edward Luce, Rana Foroohar and James Politi will be joined by veteran commentator Norm Ornstein for a subscriber-exclusive event assessing the US midterm results....
...The Blue Boy’s identity has never been confirmed; he might be Jonathan Buttall, a London ironmonger’s son, or the artist’s nephew Gainsborough Dupont, young men from the expanding 18th-century mercantile...
...In a joint interview with the FT’s James Fernyhough, they were clear that if the board refused to engage, they wouldn’t be shy of taking their offer directly to big shareholders....
...Moelis & Company has recruited James Nichols as managing director, based in London. He joins in February from DC Advisory....
...When sages speak Digital trade needs an open international architecture, writes Sam duPont of the German Marshall Fund of the United States....
...Perhaps it’s time for a Bretton Woods-style conference on digital data, writes Sam duPont in CSIS....
...IFF beat Ireland’s Kerry Group in the auction of the DuPont unit....
...James Murdoch, whose father Rupert controls Fox News, has become one of the top Democratic donors....
...Instead, US group International Flavors & Fragrances grabbed the DuPont unit in a $26.2bn deal....
...International Flavors & Fragrances has agreed to buy DuPont’s nutrition and biosciences business for $26.2bn....
...DuPont’s chief executive Marc Doyle and chief financial officer Jeanmarie Desmond are stepping down....
..., setting up proxy fight (WSJ) NBC unveils streaming service that’s more like TV (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier Espinoza in Brussels, James...
...in Belgium (FT) Freshfields partners to vote on introducing bad behaviour fines (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier Espinoza in Brussels, James...
...FT) Kazakh fintech group plans London IPO (FT) Saudi officials consider delaying Aramco IPO after attacks (WSJ) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Javier Espinoza and Robert Smith in London, James...
...The agriculture division, to be called Corteva Agriscience, will be headed by chief operating officer James Collins, while the chief executive of the specialty products — or DuPont — unit will be its current...
...(BBG) News round-up DuPont Considers Sale of Biosciences Unit That Could Fetch $20 Billion (BBG) Mastercard buys real-time payments unit from Nets Group for $3.2bn (FT) Boohoo snaps up Karen Millen and...
...Chemicals company DuPont has hired Alex Khutorsky from boutique advisory group Valence to join its M&A team. He previously worked at Bank of America, Bloomberg reported....
...Then DuPont and Dow Chemical deny the reports but, two years later, DuPont announces in a one-sentence statement that Breen, while keeping his post at DuPont, will simultaneously run Dow Chemical....
...Ms Gibaud, who says she has been approached to run as a candidate in the European elections with controversial rightwing politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, personifies the tensions at the centre of the trial...
...Over the past few years we’ve seen the Big Six agricultural seed and chemical groups — BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta — become the Big Four....
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