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...In 2018 the Trump administration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium coming from Europe and in retaliation Brussels put tariffs on US-made goods like whiskey, jeans and Harley-Davidson motorbikes....
...Birkenstein Capital, a new German special situations investor partnered with Davidson Kempner, will be led by Tobias Hoffmann-Becking....
...Meanwhile, a reminder that you can join La Liga President Javier Tebas, new AC Milan owner Gerry Cardinale, super agent Rafaela Pimenta and many more at the Business of Football Summit on 1-2 March to discuss...
...To get a better grip on why this is so important to Putin (and Western leaders), it’s worth reading this piece from Bloomberg’s Javier Blas (hat-tip to Adam Tooze): In the 24 hours after Vladimir Putin...
...It didn’t help that India’s attorney-general, K K Venugopal, urged the bench to let the matter drop, noting that some retired judges had also expressed concerns about judicial corruption and the court’s...
...EU officials want to do something about it pronto, writes DD’s Javier Espinoza....
...K&L Gates has added a team of lawyers from Holding Redlich to its corporate practice in Melbourne, led by Harry Kingsley....
...In October, the company said it had hired law firm K&L Gates — including former congressmen Bart Gordon and Jeff Denham, to review and “increase transparency” around its US content moderation policies and...
...Javier Vivas, director of economic research at property listings website Realtor.com, says that the outlook for Chicago this year is one of the worst among the major US metropolitan areas....
...K&L Gates has hired Stephen Bittinger as a partner in the law firm’s healthcare practice. He joins from Nexsen Pruet....
...Randy Clark joined K&L Gates from Moore & Van Allen as a Charlotte-based partner in the firm’s tax practice....
...Harley-Davidson has named board member Jochen Zeitz as acting president and chief executive, replacing Matthew Levatich, who has led the company since 2015....
...raises $1bn in Hong Kong IPO (FT) Chinese AI start-up Megvii rethinks IPO plan this year (FT) Google to buy analytics software firm Looker for $2.6bn (Reuters) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Javier...
...Mondelez to buy THL-owned bakery for $1.2bn (BBG) Viacom’s ex-finance chief to buy majority stake in Univision (BBG) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier...
...K&L Gates has hired Yasho Lahiri as an asset management and investment funds partner in the New York office. He was previously at DLA Piper....
...Lee joins from K&L Gates. Smart reads The right remedy Six years ago AstraZeneca was “about to implode” and under huge pressure from Pfizer, its American multinational rival, to sell itself....
...K&L Gates has hired Steven Olenick as a corporate partner in the New York office. He joins the from Loeb & Loeb....
...K&L Gates has added David Owen as counsel to its asset management and investment funds practice. Owen joins from Allianz Global Investors....
...The K and the R of KKR clearly had their differences over Brexit, with Roberts optimistic that a hard Brexit and a weakened sterling would create opportunities for PE....
...He was formerly a partner at K&L Gates. Weil Gotshal hired Jenny Doak as a tax partner in its London office. Doak joins from law firm Vinson & Elkins....
...Fan-Delatour joins the law firm from K&L Gates, where she was also a partner. BakerHostetler has hired Timothy Swan as a partner in the law firm’s Cincinnati office....
...Tim Watson is rejoining Allen & Overy as a restructuring partner just three years after leaving the global law firm for Davidson Kempner European Partners, an institutional investment management group with...
...The company joins the likes of Nordstrom, Walt Disney and Harley-Davidson in taking a hit to its share price when corporate behaviour clashes with the US president’s agenda....
...DD’s Eric Platt, who spent his weekend combing through Berkshire’s 10-K and Buffett’s annual letter, writes that the Oracle of Omaha is nervous that he won’t clinch a mega-deal in 2019....
...Additional reporting by Javier Espinoza in London...
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