Hints and tips:
...JPMorgan’s vice-chair of investment banking Andy Lipsky and co-head of strategic investor group M&A Haidee Lee are leaving the bank, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson said Sunak should ignore it....
...“No matter where this came down, you were going to have a lot of unhappy people,” said Michael Littenberg, partner at Ropes & Gray....
...She joins from Ropes & Gray. UBS has hired Moelis & Co software dealmaker Andrew Jardine, Bloomberg reports....
...Blackstone’s president Jonathan Gray earlier this year said it was a “golden moment” for the fast-growing $1.5tn industry....
...That peaked when Hong Kong’s chief executive John Lee and Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $700bn Public Investment Fund, struck a celebratory gong....
...“This Loving Light of Mine” is a retitled version of a gospel song with testifying vocals and Jerry Lee Lewis-style piano soloing....
...Hong Kong’s leader John Lee last month issued bounties totalling $1mn for the arrest of eight self-exiled activists, including two lawyers....
...They’ll also be keen to avoid one-to-one photographs with John Lee, the territory’s chief executive who is due to speak at the event....
...In one clash over PG&E’s severe budget deficit, a Democrat state senator tosses a crumpled dollar bill at Gray Davis, telling California’s beleaguered governor: “The buck stops with you.”...
...(The Guardian) Alistair Gray, law courts correspondent + Jonathan Eley, acting longform editor (duplicate entry) Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama (Vanity Fair) Alistair — This was pretty great...
...Join Hillary Rodham Clinton, Salman Rushdie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barbara Sturm, your favourite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online to experience it....
...Fade to Gray Sue Gray has released her report into lockdown breaches in Downing Street. It is not happy reading for anyone concerned with the quality of how we are governed....
...It is yet another sign — along with Sue Gray’s decision to swap the civil service for Keir Starmer’s office — that most people in Westminster are looking at the Conservative party and concluding that “this...
...We still see over 200 attendees, which matches our expectations,” Lee said....
...The bank chiefs will share the stage with Hong Kong’s leader John Lee, a former police officer who oversaw the suppression of the 2019 pro-democracy protesters in the city....
...William Lee, economist at the Milken Institute, suggested that companies may now have more people in middle manager roles than they require or can afford after rushing to hire as much professional talent...
...Gray and Loco revelled in their virtuosic flows and rap-god swagger; their breakbeats, beanies and hometown shoutouts felt like authentic nods to hip-hop culture, with Gray joking to the crowd that “man’...
...According to ITV News, the pictures were taken at an event at Number 10 on November 13 2020 to mark the departure of then communications director Lee Cain....
...Lee Cain, then 1o Downing Street’s Director of Communications, also voiced concerns about the event’s appropriateness....
...He went on to quote the novelist Alasdair Gray who argued that Glasgow has gone unrecognised as a great city because “nobody imagines living there . . . if a city hasn’t been used by an artist not even the...
...“[On] the fundraising front, it is getting harder out there,” Blackstone Group president Jonathan Gray told shareholders on an earnings call....
...Dave Lee in San Francisco reports Amazon’s stock is down more than 30 per cent this year and overall revenue growth has slowed to its lowest rate for two decades....
...Senior civil servant Sue Gray is expected to publish her report into coronavirus rule breaking in Whitehall on Wednesday....
...The rebels gathered twice this week to discuss their disquiet over Johnson’s leadership, with Kearns’s office — which she shares with Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield — used for a meeting on Tuesday....
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