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...Leo Cremonezi ‘The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder’ by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao This is an entertaining and eminently practical guide by...
...Job moves Latham & Watkins has added two partners to its banking team in London....
...Job moves Latham & Watkins has hired Freshfields’ Mark Austin as a partner in its capital markets and public representation practice, based in London....
...Leo Chan, executive director of the Midwest USA Chinese Chamber of Commerce, helps companies establish or expand manufacturing activities in Ohio....
...The then-Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, Leo Strine, in a dissent undertook an analysis of the mindset of the Latham lawyers noting that its client, ETE, very much wanted the deal to die....
...Linklaters has hired Latham & Watkins’ John Guccione as a corporate partner in London....
...For Renzo Di Leo, a captain in Germany’s 37th armoured infantry brigade, the big question is: what took it so long?...
...In my late teens I worked as a groundsman on Hampstead Heath and Parliament Hill. We spent the day planting, cutting and tending to the land....
...Latham & Watkins has named Alex Martin as a partner in its structured finance practice based in London. He joins from Weil Gotshal. Checkout.com has hired Céline Dufétel as its new finance chief....
...Further reading: As private equity firms book the next flight to Tokyo, public markets have struggled to find investor appeal, the FT’s Leo Lewis writes....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Carles Esteva Mosso as a partner in Brussels and Pedro de Rojas as a partner in Madrid....
...One thing to start: Latham & Watkins posted record revenues of $4.3bn last year, among the highest-ever for a law firm. Read more here....
...Latham & Watkins has hired James Garrett as a partner in private equity and M&A practices. He joins the firm’s Houston office from Vinson & Elkin....
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...My favourite, though, came from Michael Watkins, who suggests "pathfinders", pointing out that the middle managers of the future "must guide the way, taking their teams to new and exciting places"....
...One of the schemes that made this possible, according to an investigation commissioned by Nissan and carried out by the law firm Latham & Watkins, was by extending the vesting period for tens of millions...
...Here’s a look inside two painful weeks at SoftBank from Kana Inagaki, Leo Lewis and Arash Massoudi....
...Pictet AM has also appointed Junjie Watkins as chief executive for Asia ex-Japan, a Hong Kong-based role. She joins from TCW Asia and replaces Amy Cho, who departed last year....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Patrick Mitchell as a partner in the entertainment, sports and media practice in London. He joins from DLA Piper....
...The lavish party exposes the Nissan chairman’s major misjudgment, writes the FT’s Leo Lewis....
...Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy both lost partners to Latham & Watkins, while Linklaters saw departures to Paul Hastings and Kirkland....
...David Pilling argues that despite Africa’s warp-speed revolution in health care, countries have missed a much more basic threat to heath and longevity....
...Houlding will be speaking at the FT Weekend Festival on Hampstead Heath on September 8 Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...He is the Fool, King Lear’s close companion in Shakespeare’s bleak tragedy and, begging your pardon Leo Tolstoy, crucial to the story....
...Heath Tarbert, assistant Treasury secretary for international markets and investment policy, told a Washington conference the administration was looking at invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers...
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