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...Text messages made public as part of the legal battle between the two sides revealed that Musk has been inundated with recommendations from his associates of high profile executives to populate Twitter’s...
...“The cloud has changed the idea of what a strategic [supplier] is,” said Lee Sustar, analyst at advisory company Forrester Research....
...“It’s one more arrow in the quiver of opponents,” said Paul Patterson, an analyst at Glenrock Associates. “Environmentalists seem to be going after the economics more.”...
...“A first-year associate can now earn over $200,000 in the private sector. At the FTC they would be on $60,000 to $70,000.”...
...“Duterte doesn’t see the Ayalas and the Pangilinans as national champions, he sees them as big businesses squeezing the poor,” says Eduardo Araral, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public...
...A former UK diplomat, Mr Kershaw previously served as head of the London office for Cambridge Associates, the investment consultant....
...“Alex holds up a mirror and is unflinching in his exposés of criminality,” says one of his interviewees, Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates and the short-seller who helped to bring down Enron....
...But many companies remain bullish on the opportunity for blockchain-related businesses in Vietnam — including Nami Corp....
...Some Wall Street rivals say that is more by necessity than anything else: since the death two years ago of Jimmy Lee, the bank’s vice-chairman and top dealmaker, the CEO has had no choice but to chip in....
...“This is one of the top issues that we are getting questions about,” says Linda-Eling Lee, head of environmental, social and governance research at MSCI....
...September, Cheil Industries merged with Samsung C&T in a high-profile deal that bolstered Samsung’s founding family’s control over the group, overcoming strong opposition from activist US hedge fund Elliott Associates...
...Patriarch Lee Kun-hee’s direct stake alone would earn him $350m of a $10bn dividend, resulting in a meaty tax bill. And Mr Lee has been ailing since last year....
...But that process has come under attack from one of the world’s most aggressive activist funds: Elliott Associates, which pursued Argentina over unpaid debts to the point of trying to seize one of its naval...
...A restructuring at the Samsung group has run into opposition, with US hedge fund Elliott Associates attempting to block the merger of two key affiliates of the South Korean conglomerate....
...Patriarch Lee Kun-hee has been bedridden since a heart attack in May last year. His son Lee Jae-yong faces an inheritance tax bill of more than Won5tn on the death of his father....
...Activist hedge fund Elliott Associates has agreed to sellthe bulk of its shares in Samsung C&T to the company, after failing to block shareholder approval of the South Korean group’s contentious takeover...
...The result was a narrow defeat for US hedge fund Elliott Associates, which used a 7.1 per cent stake in Samsung C&T to oppose the company’s sale, saying that the transaction terms undervalued the target....
...Even as Samsung’s founding family savours victory over US activist fund Elliott Associates, it is digesting new evidence of the threat posed by foreign investors to South Korea’s chaebol business model....
...Lee Kun-hee....
...Opposition has been led by US activist fund Elliott Associates, which claims that the all-share deal’s terms would unfairly transfer billions of dollars in value to the Samsung group’s founding Lee family...
...Activist investor Elliott Associates, at least, is doing something to usher in a new era that should be much fairer to minority investors....
...those of Cheil Industries — principally Samsung’s founding Lee family....
...A Seoul court has rejected an appeal from US activist fund Elliott Associates to block the merger of two Samsung group companies, saying that the proposed deal did not represent an illegal transfer of value...
...US activist hedge fund Elliott Associates has asked a South Korean court to block a merger between two major Samsung affiliates that is seen as part of the group’s efforts to transfer control to a new generation...
...— principally Samsung’s founding Lee family....
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