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...Lina Khan’s FTC has been on a tear....
...It has received about Rmb5mn to grow from 29 branches to 100, a pace that operations manager Lina Dai says would have been difficult to achieve by relying on bank loans....
...Italian director Lina Wertmüller described her white glasses as her own “personal décor” and ordered them in bulk (the minimum order was 5,000 pairs)....
...“It’s a dominant platform and a vertically integrated dominant platform,” says Lina Khan, author of an influential Yale Law Journal article earlier this year that ignited the debate....
...lina.saigol@ft.com...
...The former Merrill Lynch banker, 43, has a long history with both Debenhams and Sports Direct’s controlling shareholder Mike Ashley....
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch: The judges ruled that if indeed people had claimed under the PSC settlement for fictitious losses they never incurred, the whole ruling could be found to be “legally invalid...
...The 28 years he spent at Merrill Lynch led to his becoming president, chief operating officer and a member of the executive board....
...Hilton, which was acquired by the private equity group for more than $25bn including debt in 2007, has hired Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to lead its IPO...
...Mr Lynch declined to comment on the SFO investigation. Last month he welcomed the FRC probe....
...In July that year, Bain Capital, KKR and Merrill Lynch engineered what at the time was the biggest leveraged buyout ever – the $32.1bn deal of US hospital chain HCA....
...Mr Orcel, who was working for Merrill Lynch at the time of RBS’s bid for ABN, said: “If we’d known what we know today, we would have advised them not to proceed.”...
...It was a former Merrill Lynch banker who dreamt up the grand plan of catapulting a conservative Swiss bank into the global investment banking league....
...The UK support services group had considered a £500m rights issue, underwritten by UBS and BofA Merrill Lynch as one way of financing a bid, the people said....
...Reporting by Roula Khalaf and Lina Saigol in London and Henny Sender in Paris. Additional reporting by Michael Peel...
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch is acting as exclusive financial adviser to Euromedic....
...Mr Novelli has previously held positions as head of European M&A and head of global M&A at Merrill Lynch and UBS respectively....
...Following the private equity group’s legendary $25bn buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1989, it sold the Del Monte canned foods business to an investor group led by Merrill Lynch....
...Carlo Calabria, vice-chairman at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said the number of deals would pick up rapidly in the first half of next year....
...“These announcements reinforce the trends we have been seeing,” said Jeff Kaplan, global head of M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Chief executives are using their strength and balance sheets and are willing to pay to achieve penetration into new growth markets,” said Philip Noblet, co-head of European M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch...
...Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets advised London Stock Exchange Group while Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets advised TMX Group....
...Philip Noblet, co-head of European M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, echoes these sentiments....
...According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, there have been 343 new authorisations for $178bn in buybacks so far this year....
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