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...Other Chinese investors have previously sold down stakes in clubs ranging from English Premier League club Aston Villa to France’s Lyon....
...“I wish we had better news,” Lyon told her by email in November, but “given the macro environment, there are no open jobs . . . right now that work.”...
...The acquisition marks the second bet made by Silver Lake in a French software company following its 2016 investment in Lyon-based Cegid, an enterprise management software provider....
...“What the bank wants is the access to the service, as much as the investment return,” said Greg Lyons, co-chair of the financial institutions group at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton....
...Later, the conversation was occasionally drowned out by an ambulance siren or a motorbike gang roaring improbably up Park Avenue....
...The 2011 private equity buyout of US ambulance company Rural/Metro was an unremarkable takeover that earned Royal Bank of Canada $5m in advisory fees....
...The second, a firm of ambulance-chasing solicitors called Quindell, took a little longer to unravel, after it successfully sued for libel in the UK courts....
...Rural/Metro, an ambulance operator, was sold for $728m. RBC said in a statement: “We are disappointed with the court’s determination but respect its decision.”...
...(FT Alphaville) Andrew Grech, MD, Slater & Gordon: Thanks to the Oz ambulance chasers, the Quindell of 2015 was literally just Quindell again....
...Ronan Lyons, who teaches at Trinity College, says the failure to encourage foreign investors to participate directly in the Irish construction sector after the crash has exacerbated the housing crisis, and...
...It combined an ambulance chasing law firm with solar panel installation, physiotherapy, car repair and bold but largely unfulfilled plans to put electronic tracking devices in cars....
...The court case in question relates to the 2011 acquisition of Rural-Metro, a publicly-traded ambulance provider, by private equity firm Warburg Pincus for $438m, excluding net debt....
...The board, led by Alastair Lyons, is expected to reach a decision this weekend on the fate of Kent-based Towergate, which employs about 5,000 people at more than 120 offices....
...Alastair Lyons, chairman of Towergate for almost four years, is also due to leave when a replacement is found....
...Since then, the business has been run on a day-to-day basis by Alastair Lyons, interim executive chairman....
...We started paying attention and realised Quindell had become one of the largest ambulance chasing law firms in the UK....
...A Delaware judge has ruled against Royal Bank of Canada over advice the lender gave in the 2011 buyout of an ambulance operator, in a decision that is likely to have far reaching consequences for Wall Street...
...The foodmaker, whose brands also include Maryland Cookies and Lyons, had revenues of £333m in 2012....
...“Without a doubt, this is the worst crisis the industry has faced,” say breathless press releases from ambulance-chasing law firms....
...While designer Jenna Lyons’ signature acid brights took something of a backseat, pattern-blocking remained in force in rainbow-coloured cropped cigarette pants and jacquard paisley skirts with oversized...
...As well as own label ice cream for supermarkets such as Tesco, Carrefour and Aldi, the company makes Nestlé brands, – including Kit Kat, Aero and Fab – Lyons Maid and Thorntons and distributes Mars products...
...(Bloomberg) - Don’t let risks hide all of China’s positive trends, says Gerard Lyons of StanChart....
...He began his career with Imperial Foods before moving to Allied Domecq where he was chairman of Lyons Tetley, Dunkin Donuts and Allied’s pub group, and chief executive of both the retailing and food divisions...
...Jenna Lyons, J Crew’s creative director, went to May’s Met Ball, New York’s social event of the season, in a cropped denim jacket and long pink satin skirt....
...“A deleveraging process doesn’t occur as a nice, smooth stream of air from a balloon,” said David Lyon, a specialist in debt capital markets at Barclays Capital....
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