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...One of its biggest wins came in 2013 when it acquired a $2bn stake in Microsoft and put ValueAct president Mason Morfit on the board....
...Separately, Pinsent Masons’ David Lancaster has joined the firm as an intellectual property litigation partner in London....
...The San Francisco-based group has appointed Arnold Donald, former chief executive of cruise operator Carnival Corporation, Sachin Mehra, chief financial officer of Mastercard and Mason Morfit, chief executive...
...Goldman Sachs’ global head of commodities research Jeff Currie is leaving the Wall Street firm after 27 years....
...They include the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance, Pinsent Masons’ One Million Hours project and the UK-based Legal Sustainability Alliance....
...White Cube in Mason’s Yard has 20 years of work by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall while Cooke Latham Gallery in Battersea shows science-fiction-inspired sculptures by London-based Rafał Zajko which address...
...He handed off the chief investment officer job in 2017 and the chief executive role earlier this year to his handpicked successor, Mason Morfit....
...UBS has appointed Gareth McCartney and Jeff Mortara as global co-heads of equity capital markets. Pinsent Masons has hired property and infrastructure partner Deanne Ogilvie....
...Job moves Joe Sullivan, the former head of Legg Mason, is joining Allspring Global Investments, the newly rebranded name of Wells Fargo Asset Management, as the chief executive and chair....
...“They may not all hit the maximum, but we expect them to get close to it,” said Jeff Harte, analyst at Piper Sandler, noting that banks’ capital levels had been getting “stronger and stronger” over 2020....
...Nicholas Hanna and Mark Tan will join Pinsent Masons as partners based in Singapore. Both join from K & L Gates....
...The 58-year-old is relinquishing his role as chief executive at ValueAct and handing the reins over to his longtime deputy, Mason Morfit....
...The firm’s founder, Jeff Ubben, tried to make him swim in a glacier lake in Montana to make him partner....
...Raising fares to cover higher costs per passenger would kill demand, said Ben Baldanza, an economist at George Mason University and the former chief executive of low-cost Spirit Airlines....
...Jeff Ubben, the founder of ValueAct Capital, the activist hedge fund manager who has targeted companies ranging from Microsoft to KKR and Citigroup, has relinquished his role as chief executive, as the group...
...The outlook of Mason Slaine, tech entrepreneur and Tribune’s third-largest shareholder with an 8 per cent stake, will provide no comfort to them. “I would sell at the right price....
...(FT) Franklin Resources in talks to buy Legg Mason Franklin Resources is nearing an all-cash offer for the asset manager Legg Mason....
...An exhibition of Jeff Wall’s latest works is at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London SW1Y 6BU, June 28-September 7; whitecube.com Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...ValueAct’s second act Jeff Ubben, below, likes to do things differently....
...Intimations of antiquity are seasoned with a soupçon of Jeff Koons. The references pile up quickly....
...Mr Ubben, founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based ValueAct, passed on control of the firm’s main fund to his protégé, Mason Morfit, now chief investment officer, in 2017....
...Pinsent Masons added Hans Jürgen Meyer-Lindemann to its competition, EU & trade group in Düsseldorf. He was formerly a senior partner at Dechert....
...Pinsent Masons has appointed Ian Laing, who is based in Singapore, to lead its global infrastructure team. He succeeds Richard Laudy....
...“They are delivering operating leverage, something the market has been sceptical on,” said Jeff Harte of Sandler O’Neill....
...Valérie Blandeau will join Pinsent Masons in Paris as the head of the firm’s employment and reward team. She previously worked for Gowling in Paris....
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