Hints and tips:
...The forthcoming year will provide a litmus test for many fast-growing firms such as Thoma Bravo, Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners as they raise new funds....
...A valuation topping $9bn would mark an impressive outcome for L Catterton, which is backed by the French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...NatWest is raising this to 20 per cent for all new and existing customers (bravo) and brokers speculate that more lenders could follow....
...Orlando Bravo, co-founder of San Francisco-based Thoma Bravo, said investors undervalue buyout firms by not focusing enough on incentive earnings....
...involving the Benetton retail dynasty, the Real Madrid football tycoon Florentino Pérez and the billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn to buy a stake in Italy’s main toll road operator, Autostrade per l’...
...So far, so is Thoma Bravo, whose co-founder Orlando Bravo told us that “to pursue our strategic mission, we don’t need outside capital right now” — before adding that this could change....
...S.O.L.A.R. You know, when someone or something is solar, and has a sunny or happy energy?”...
...Well, EU’s cleared the purchase of Sophos by Thoma Bravo. ......
...The culprit was Thoma Bravo, which extended job offers this past weekend, kicking off a frenzy of interviews at almost every big firm....
...Davis, who has more than two decades experience in M&A, joins from K&L Gates....
...Elsewhere, shares in L Brands advanced 4.3 per cent to $71.33 after the company behind Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works reported better than expected same-store sales in May....
...Food rosés • L’Anglore 2013 Tavel • Castello di Ama Rosato 2014 Toscana • Domaine de l’Horizon Rosé 2014 Côtes Catalanes • Freeman Vineyards, Rondo Rosé 2015 Hilltops • Lopez de Heredia, Viña Tondonia...
...Last September, Colombia’s first lady, María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera, awarded Scheufele with the UN Fashion 4 Development award and, in November, she was named Environmentalist of the Year in the Bravo...
...Bravo to him. 42 Avenue Gabriel, Paris 75008 (+331-5836 6060; www.lareserve-paris.com)....
...It comprised four portfolios of 15 prints each by four master photographers: Walker Evans, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Garry Winogrand and Friedlander himself....
...Bravo!...
...Tastes quite sweet (residual sugar is only 10g/l in fact) but it’s gorgeous and not at all flabby....
...“L’homme c’est formidable – l’oeuvre aussi,” as Gustave Flaubert might have said to George Sand. Mark Gatiss is co-creator of BBC1’s ‘Sherlock’....
...The dosage was a modest 7g/l and the disgorgement date is given to help consumers and wine trade distinguish the bottling from others with the same name....
...When a work by the Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti, “L’Homme qui marche I”, sold for a world record £65m at Sotheby’s in London earlier this year, one member of the incredulous audience experienced a...
...Bravo, Waitrose! Firm and dry. 13% £8.99 at 146 Waitrose stores Bear Creek, Zamora Zinfandel 2008 California From 40-year-old bushvines, apparently....
...A well-formed sentence triggers his voice booming through my headphones: “Bravo! Répétez-moi ça! Bravo!”...
...“It has been a difficult time for the fund management industry in Spain,” says Luisa Gómez Bravo, head of global asset management at BBVA, Spain’s second biggest bank....
...Bravo, we cry. The day had begun with an assessment of our abilities on a red slope above town, followed by a brisk tour of the pistes by the ESF....
...In the US: L.L. Bean’s boat and tote bags with the zip top are the only bags I’ll carry. I have dozens of them, all with navy straps of course....
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