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...We told her we were doing the whisky tasting laid on by Ballantine’s, one of the festival’s sponsors, that afternoon. “Oh god,” she grimaced, “Ballantine’s. Just what I need.”...
...Alex Ballantine, head of global industrials at investment bank Baird, said that while valuations of US industrials were “higher than ever . . . the UK is definitely being penalised for Brexit and Covid”....
...Think of James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, except with the amateur sleuth incapacitated by drunkenness rather than a broken leg....
...Stewart reports that Morton Pierce, then co-chairman of Dewey Ballantine, was guaranteed compensation of $35m over five years in the merger with LeBoeuf in 2007....
...… Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and The End of a Stable Pacific, by Robert Kaplan, Ballantine Books, RRP£12.99/Random House, RRP$26 Kaplan, an experienced geopolitical commentator, takes on one...
...MedImmune has hired bankers at Goldman Sachs and lawyers at Dewey Ballantine to advise it on the auction....
...As a result, Pernod gained control of a series of renowned spirits brands, such as Ballantine's whisky and Beefeater gin....
...The two groups agreed to split Allied's brands, with Pernod taking Ballantine's whisky, Beefeater gin and most of Allied's wines, and Fortune picking up Sauza tequila and Maker's Mark bourbon....
...TOKYO by Mo Hayder Bantam Press £12.99, 409 pages DECEPTION by Denise Mina Little, Brown $23.95, 320 pages BODY DOUBLE by Tess Gerritsen Ballantine Books $24.95, 352 pages R IS FOR RICOCHET by...
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