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...“I’m not looking to get rid of it [any particular businesses]....
...Linklaters’ services to Endeavour while De Montessus was CEO spanned advising on its IPO, corporate bonds, M&A activities and corporate governance....
...Despite the appointment of mining veteran Ian Cockerill as chief executive, analysts at Berenberg said there was scope for it to become an M&A target....
...But we’re now entering this new stage where they are looking to do M&A and be more exciting....
...Mining M&A only tends to generate large cost savings when the two companies’ operations are in close geographical proximity to one another....
...So I guess I’m wondering, what’s the problem then for these big banks?...
...The deal started a wave of transactions in the industry, but BHP management has since said it would be disciplined in its approach towards further M&A as it focused on integrating Oz and funding the development...
...Asked whether the debt restructuring would be completed in the first half of 2024, Musokotwane said: “I’m hoping so. If I can get it even earlier, that would be better.”...
...I’m not sure there will be so many governments deciding to subsidise big production with a lot of money just to compete with Indonesia production.”...
...“I’m still asking myself . . . how did this change happen?” said Lina Vega, president of Panamanian non-profit Fundación Libertad Ciudadana....
...Iliad, admittedly faster growing but as yet barely profitable, would have been valued at 17 times ebitda, estimates Karen Egan at Enders Analysis....
...“Even though lithium prices are coming down, M&A in the space is coming as larger scale companies with financial firepower will be needed to deliver supply,” said Reg Spencer, analyst at Canaccord Genuity...
...I’m well. How are you doing? Marc Filippino I’m doing well, thanks. Yuan, can you explain what de-risking is and what’s the motivation behind it?...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] John Thornhill I’m John Thornhill, the Financial Times innovation editor, and this is Tech Tonic. The interview you’re going to hear with Karen wasn’t my first....
...In the days ahead, he may come face to face with Daniels and Karen McDougal, a former Playboy playmate who also claimed to have had an affair with Trump....
...And while I’m sure the home videos film of your childhood piano recital are extremely valuable, I’m really talking about the battery inside of the Handycam, the one that Sony says can record for 12 hours...
...Sonja Hutson I’m doing well, thanks. So why is the airline industry so interested in ethanol?...
...Not very diplomatic My colleague Lucy Fisher has a great scoop about Rishi Sunak preparing to announce national security adviser Tim Barrow as the next ambassador to the US, replacing Dame Karen Pierce....
...“To me, it looks like a diamond, it sparkles like a diamond and makes me feel like I’m wearing a diamond,” says the 36-year-old writer and actor, who lives in New York....
...Karen Egan, a senior telecoms analyst at Enders Analysis, said Liberty Global had been “very wily” investors in the past but there was “less coherence” to its current investments....
...“That is why I’m hopeful that . . . any gaps that exist between what is presented as being available from different regions whether that’s across the Atlantic or across the Channel can be closed.”...
...“There are a couple of companies looking to establish a much stronger foothold in the lithium space through M&A, greenfield projects or doubling down on the resources of produced water they do have,” said...
...We have a much better understanding of the M&A activity than most of our peers,” he said....
...“I’m surprised when investors are still so nervous about rates staying high,” said Karen Ward, chief markets strategist for Europe at JPMorgan Asset Management....
...I’m Marc Filippino, and here’s the news you need to start your day. [MUSIC PLAYING] German exports to China dropped by double digits in the first four months of the year — 11 per cent, to be precise....
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