Hints and tips:
...“I’m very concerned about the exodus of companies,” said one longtime Chicago business and civic leader....
...Ken Griffin, billionaire founder of US hedge fund Citadel, is backing the Marshall bid. Is Zucker also in the mix? “I’m not going to talk about that,” he says, flatly....
...“I’m just riffin’ so I can impress Ken Griffin,’” he told the crowd of some 10,000 people, according to people who attended, and, “If my band ever goes under, maybe I’ll become a hedge funder.”...
...But the country is only ripe for M&A in theory....
...“I’m encouraged but we need to keep that momentum up,” he said. “Banks and finance providers are increasingly competing to attract diverse entrepreneurs.”...
...Francis deSouza, Illumina chief executive, and chair John Thompson were talking to Icahn over his board nominees, the company said....
...Jon Thompson is set to step down as chief of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council to become the new chair of the HS2 high-speed rail link project....
...After all, who wouldn’t want Steve Cohen, Izzy Englander, or Ken Griffin to oversee their hedge fund portfolio?...
...I’m unconvinced that writers such as Olga Tokarczuk or Kazuo Ishiguro have much to fear from present-day AI language generating models and writing assistants....
...The fallout was so bad that founder Gabe Plotkin’s old boss Steve Cohen and Citadel’s Ken Griffin stepped in with a capital infusion to save the day. But things haven’t gotten any better....
...The amazing Ken Auletta strikes again, this time with what sounds like a must-read biography on Harvey Weinstein....
...Wilson Sonsini has hired Jason Breen as a partner in its M&A practice, based in Los Angeles. He joins from Goodwin Procter....
...I learned from Ken.”...
...“The worst-case scenario for this law is in a court some judge is like, ‘I’m not reading the smart contract code. This is a bunch of baloney’,’’ Fitsimones said....
...US regional bank M&A, now or never?...
...“And I’m not going to say that Robinhood did everything perfect and that we haven’t made mistakes in the past....
...So an M&A lawyer walks into an investment bank . . . Big law has become synonymous with big money in recent months....
...Michael Russell has rejoined Wilson Sonsini from Goodwin Procter as a corporate partner, and will co-lead the firm’s M&A practice with longtime partner Robert Ishii....
...Ken Moelis, a former UBS banker whose eponymous boutique went public in 2014, said his firm was created amid the 2007-08 financial crisis and as a result always had a big presence in restructuring....
...I’m trying to make lemonade out of the heaps of lemons we have here.” The news industry has been in decline for 30 years....
...A former conflict-resolution negotiator at the UN, Mr Suleyman set up the Muslim Youth Helpline as a teenager and worked for former London mayor Ken Livingstone....
...He previously led the middle market consumer and retail M&A effort at Wells Fargo Securities....
...Big names like Ken Griffin’s Citadel saw its Wellington Fund rise 19.4 per cent last year, trumping rival Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, which was up 16 per cent....
...She adds: “I’m a huge believer in lots more transparency. I love what you did in the UK in requiring companies to report the gender pay gap....
...Victoria Rosamond has rejoined White & Case’s New York office as a partner in its M&A practice. She was previously at Katten Muchin Rosenman....
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