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...Her detailed legal analysis — as well as an in-depth look at the financial plumbing of Musk’s unprecedented pay deal — is the backbone of the specialised Delaware Court of Chancery....
...I’m happy to report that Mr Martin makes a mean martini — I guess the clue is in the name....
...His zones were Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Loma Linda, California, and he says a long life is more about environment than behaviour....
...Aqueducts, which is of course plumbing that we know. Sanitation. Roads — every time you’re on a road, you can thank a Roman. Social care, that was designed by the Romans....
...One scoop to start: I’m Brooke Masters, the US Financial Editor, writing to you one more time before Harriet Agnew returns....
...Private equity firm Francisco Partners has hired Erin Blake as a managing director of legal M&A in San Francisco and Jason Warner joins as head of data science in New York....
...“When they are working on M&A deals, maybe we will ask them to work longer, but will compensate them with more holidays....
...“The scale and potential of the China market are undiminished” when it eventually opens up to the world, said Brian King, at Texas A&M University....
...I’m just back from Gladstone’s Library in Wales. If you have a project to finish, a book to write — or just want time to read and think — it’s a great place to stay....
...The system, which supplies essential plumbing to the global investment industry, will give the asset manager’s clients access to crypto....
...If you weren’t searching it out, I’m not sure you’d know that the 35-year-old model, actress and entrepreneur was the force behind the whole thing....
...I’m Patricia Nilsson. Alex Barker I’m Alex Barker. From Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times, this is Hot Money....
...If Buffett triumphed, the money would go to Girls Inc. Initially, it looked like Buffett would have to eat some humble pie....
...By the time the financial crisis erupted, the Solutions unit was a fully fledged financial advice group with deep expertise in the plumbing of markets....
...When I mention I’m writing for a magazine called How To Spend It, he chuckles. “Easy; spend it here.”...
...Its principals have worked with Jason Grosfeld, chairman and CEO of real-estate firm Irongate, on numerous projects (among them his own 1,440sq m home in Aspen and the rather-less-touted Trump International...
...Cooley has appointed Kevin Cooper as a partner in its M&A practice, based in New York. Cooper joins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz....
...Today, prices of new apartments in Lisbon average €6,500 per sq m, and can reach €7,700 per sq m in some of the most sought-after areas in the historic centre....
...¿Costa Dorada? Nunca....
...I intend to say that I’m a plumber, given that I have my own set of rods to unblock drains and I once sorted out a neighbour’s drain during a drunken dinner party of Oxbridge academics....
...Coke struck a particularly interesting deal in the autumn, with a £3.9bn pound acquisition of the UK's Costa coffee chain....
...Elections Portugal Portuguese go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament after four years of economic growth and deficit cuts under the minority Socialist government of Prime Minister António Costa...
...Costa Rica’s got 10 per cent . . . We need more, not less. This government is evil and I’m not going to sit back and let evil win.”...
...But I grew up in a council flat . . . and perhaps because of my background I never feel like I’m in a gilded cage. This job is the privilege of my life.”...
...Since then there’s been a steady recovery, with 168m cinema admissions last year — setting the scene for potential M&A activity in the sector. Why did admissions fall from 1946 to 1984?...
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