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...Born in the USA: a New York law firm’s London coup DD readers are by now read up on US law firm Paul Weiss’s back-to-back raids on its higher-grossing rival Kirkland & Ellis, signalling its intent to edge...
...The family office of secretive billionaire Harald McPike has accused US gaming investor Jason Ader of fraudulently inducing it into backing his special purpose acquisition company because he was under pressure...
...“We don’t want any massive surprises,” says Vincent Kaufmann, chief executive of the Ethos Foundation, which represents about 5 per cent of Credit Suisse shareholders....
...Axel Springer, the publisher of titles such as Bild and Politico, is among the hundreds of publishers, advertisers and media groups that have argued Google is breaking EU law. 3....
...By contrast, the S&P 500 is up 25 per cent....
...I am Vincent Kaufman. I am the CEO of the Ethos Foundation created by two Swiss pension funds to promote sustainable investment....
...One thing to start: Monday marked the S&P 500’s worst day of trading since May as the liquidity crisis at the Chinese property developer Evergrande rocked global financial markets....
...Board members are expected to vouch for the work practices in offices they have never visited, and for the security of data held in computer systems they barely understand....
...Law firm Goodwin has hired Joshua Zachariah as a partner in its M&A practice. He joins the Boston office after working as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco and New York....
...The Office of Foreign Assets Control, or Ofac, which oversees US sanctions guidance and enforcement, has since said that buying shares with similar names to the 31 businesses named in Mr Trump’s executive...
...Together they lifted the Nasdaq Composite 4 per cent, ahead of the benchmark S&P 500....
...The law firm K&L Gates has hired Bonita Black as a partner in its corporate practice. She joins the firm’s Charlotte office from Dinsmore & Shohl....
...Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Russell Light as a partner at its tax practice. He joins the New York office from Kirkland & Ellis....
...associate of Vladimir Putin and Jared Kushner, the future US president’s son-in-law, according to the report by special counsel Robert Mueller....
...But Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.2 per cent and the S&P/ASX 200 in Sydney was flat....
...The US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York filed a criminal complaint against Mr Pinto-Thomaz along with Abell Oujaddou, 55, and Jeremy Millul, 32....
...Vincent was previously head of business development at Mubadala Capital, the investment unit of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Reuters reports....
...S&P, in previous rating updates for UK universities, such as this one for the University of Nottingham last June, acknowledged the anticipation of such support....
...In the past five years, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, four of the largest companies in the S&P 500, have generated a cool $293bn in free cash flow, according to Bloomberg....
...All of AMG’s affiliates are active managers yet ironically the world’s biggest passive investment groups are at the top of its own shareholder base, a reflection of AMG’s membership of the S&P 500 and automatic...
...The company’s Saudi-backed technology fund has been on a buying spree this year, most recently agreeing to plunge billions of dollars into shared-office provider WeWork....
...Another 24 hours into the liquidation of Carillion, and the crisis seems to spread wider by the minute, writes Matthew Vincent....
...In July, laws were passed giving the government the right to a 16 per cent share of all mining operations....
...Data on November producer prices and October house prices are also due from the Office for National Statistics....
...As Donald Trump prepares to take office in January and our government kicks off negotiations over the UK’s exit from the EU, 2017 provides a landscape of further uncertainty....
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