Hints and tips:
...The day before, Sputnik V, a Russian vaccine made by the Gamaleya Institute, showed 92 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid, according to preliminary data published in the Lancet....
...But this will not be a V-shaped recovery. Burberry: kate.burgess@ft.com McCarthy & Stone: oliver.ralph@ft.com...
...Melrose Industries, the private equity barons whose equity isn’t private, is leading the FTSE 100 gainers after interims....
...Thomas Cook was still writing down a final £1.1bn goodwill from MyTravel in May this year....
...Secondly, there is probably a good reason for ‘below the line’ write-downs of intangibles, goodwill and potentially previously acquired assets that have to be marked-to-market....
...And GTA V’s publisher Rockstar has a history of delaying titles in the name of quality; GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, RDR2, Max Payne and L.A. Noire were all delayed....
...His team’s approach placed less weight on market share and more on commercial realities and this has had a lasting effect on mergers in the industry....
...“I don’t want to call this the honeymoon period, because what’s going on is so awful, but there is a bit of coming together and recognising goodwill,” he says....
...How much goodwill has been eroded by charging £4.90 for regular popcorn and starting the film three quarters of an hour after the time on the ticket?...
...It proposed slashing its dividend by more than half to 4p and booked a £310m goodwill impairment....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Thomas Weitkamp as Munich-based partner in its banking practice. He joins from Clifford Chance....
...In the age of online streaming, disputes over intellectual property in the music industry have become ripe for litigation....
...Doubtful drugmakers Erik Nordkamp, the managing director of Pfizer UK, warns that the UK pharmaceuticals industry, which employs more than 140,000 people, urgently needs reform....
...Latham has built an industry-leading legal IT platform, she argues. “As a result of the firm’s size and reputation, vendors often seek to collaborate with Latham to help refine their products.”...
...Unlike private equity, business school drones struggle to break into the industry....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...Here's a look inside one of the least likely — and most audacious — cottage industries that's popped up to cash in on one of them....
...Nevertheless, legal innovation is not found only where new practices and industries emerge....
...And it is unclear how much of a boost the commercially successful Batman v Superman which released in the last week of March would provide....
...The misleading use of examples covering the initial term only flagrantly ignores the spirit of Mann J’s decision in OFT v Foxtons, and paras 4.22-4.30 of the OFT’s draft Guidance for Lettings Professionals...
...As for quality, a cashmere V-neck jumper will be 9 per cent heavier but £4 cheaper . . . … Shoppers are certainly demanding both higher quality and more style....
...Suntory, too, has substantial form: it paid $3.8bn for Orangina Schweppes in 2009 and $1.3bn for New Zealand’s Frucor (V energy drink) in 2008....
...In Cross Match’s patent infringement case, lawyers Latham & Watkins succeeded in serving papers on the chief executive of South Korean company Suprema while he was at a trade show in the US....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...But the subsequent year has seen the establishment of three separate businesses looking to take advantage of that goodwill and inherit the legacy of one of the country’s most loved brands....
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