Hints and tips:
...The search for a top executive team to complement Mr Laidlaw has been going on for months, according to a person familiar with the company....
...He was also chairman of UK drinks can maker Rexam, which was bought by US rival Ball Corp in a £4.3bn deal last year....
...Industry watchers have said ex-Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw, who was recently appointed as non-executive director at Rio, is the frontrunner to replace Mr du Plessis....
...● Robyn Laidlaw will swap Melbourne for London in June and assume the role of head of institutional for Europe at Vanguard, the world’s second-largest fund manager....
...Jonathan Laidlaw, Rebekah Brooks’ barrister, told the Old Bailey that she was not pursuing her application after News UK made its position known....
...Former BP refiner Iain Conn has just replaced Sam Laidlaw — the architect of Centrica as a vertically integrated company with operations stretching from exploration to domestic supply....
...“She was not policing this man,” Mr Laidlaw told the jury....
...In his closing speech to the trial last month, Ms Brooks’ barrister Jonathan Laidlaw QC said that his client had been subject to a “witch-hunt” by prosecutors....
...Most notably Jonathan Laidlaw QC, acting for Ms Brooks, ripped apart the testimony of one witness, Eimear Cook, the former wife of golfer Colin Montgomerie....
...Ms Brooks was asked by Jonathan Laidlaw QC, her defence counsel, whether she had heard of Glenn Mulcaire, the private eye who has pleaded guilty to phone hacking at the News of the World....
...Within weeks of his appointment, the commission was gearing up to rule on whether the politically controversial takeover proposal of BSkyB by leading shareholder News Corp should proceed, only for the bid...
...Jonathan Laidlaw QC, representing former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, a defendant in the case, showed Mr Fitzgerald newspaper articles dating from 1999 and put it to him that “essentially...
...She is advised by law firm Kingsley Napley and will be defended by Jonathan Laidlaw QC, who was described in Chambers UK 2013 legal guide as an “extraordinarily able advocate” who can deal with the “most...
...Under cross examination Jonathan Laidlaw QC acting for Ms Brooks accused Ms Cook of telling “lies” to the jury....
...Sam Laidlaw, chief executive, said: “We believe that nuclear generation has a valuable role to play in a balanced UK energy mix....
...In that short sentence, Sam Laidlaw, the Centrica chief executive, captured the difficulty of running the UK’s largest domestic energy provider....
...Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw, who was well prepared for the bad weather with his mackintosh, chatted to Korn Ferry UK chairman Vanni Treves, who also chairs Intertek, in the main avenue....
...“We are in an awareness phase,” says Ms Laidlaw, who is based in Melbourne....
...But it is investors in Hong Kong-listed China Railway Construction Corp who took the news on the chin: the stock fell 18 per cent on Tuesday....
...In May, Fitch Ratings put a “negative outlook” on the company’s long-term debt over concerns about its borrowings to buy Laidlaw....
...Further questions will be raised when Centrica, the owner of British Gas, takes its 25 per cent stake in the new holding company for British Energy, which is likely to come next year, but Sam Laidlaw, Centrica...
...“This is the natural space of insurance companies,” says Mark Laidlaw, finance director of Aegon UK. “It is a reminder of what insurers can do.”...
...The deal is the first big move by Sam Laidlaw since he became chief executive of Centrica in July last year....
...It launched in Scotland in September with help from the Big Lottery, HBoS Foundation and the Laidlaw Youth Trust, and already has 27 members working with five charities....
...Mr Laidlaw built up Amerada’s North Sea operations, then moved to the US as chief operating officer....
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