Hints and tips:
...Isn’t it high time the regulators increased oversight on Blackstone and Apollo, et al, as this relatively new and powerful group of financial titans continue their march to the top of the heap on Wall Street...
...The second is an article on Anglo-Greek wrangling over the return of Parthenon Marbles hoarded by the British Museum, written by George Parker et al....
...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...What he did not emphasise is how well America’s biggest private equity groups are doing. As ProPublica points out in this great piece, Blackstone’s shares are up 50 per cent since the crisis began....
...Josh Harris of Apollo Global Management and David Blitzer of Blackstone have held discussions with the Wilpon family, according to people briefed about the matter....
...Adidas, the German sportswear group, on Wednesday announced a detailed plan to support the black community, both in the US and within its own company....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...The FT revealed on Sunday that Fox is in talks with private equity giant Blackstone about teaming up to make a joint takeover offer for Tribune Media, a television group with stations around the US that...
...You can read up on the news here. The PIF has around $230bn in assets under management, its chief Yasir al-Rumayyan told Bloomberg TV....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...That figure pales against the total value of the US housing market – $23.7tn at the end of 2012, according to Zillow – but it could grow exponentially if Blackstone et al are able to get their hands on cheap...
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...over Liverpool fight October 12 2010 RBS v Mr Hicks and others hearing held in High Court in London....
...And the numbers from Prequin et al, which do cover the recent period, by necessity must rely on estimates for the IRR of funds whose portfolio companies may still have a number of years before they are sold...
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
...Walter et al....
...- Forbes‘ dispatches from Davos - CNN is in the Davos field - Et pour les francophones: Une semaine à Davos, from Les Echos...
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