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...Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired M&A lawyers Noah Carr and Gordon Palmquist as partners in Tokyo. They join from Latham & Watkins and Mayer Brown, respectively....
...Job moves GameStop has appointed activist investor Ryan Cohen, who is already chair, as chief executive officer three months after firing its previous top boss Matt Furlong....
...I’m sure those institutions right now are embarrassed....
...Wilson Sonsini has hired Jason Breen as a partner in its M&A practice, based in Los Angeles. He joins from Goodwin Procter....
...“If you’re going to tell me that by regulatory fiat one of my major items of expense disappears, I’m OK with that,” said Griffin in October, referring to payment for order flow....
...The other new partners are Amanda Amert, Matt Basil, Sara Horton, Barbara Grayson and Matthew Thomas. Latham & Watkins has hired Mark Cooper as a partner in its Singapore office working on M&A and PE....
...Matt Hancock, UK culture secretary, said this problem was an important impetus for increasing state funding for AI research....
...Regulators should also look a lot more carefully at whether the M&A practices of the tech titans are anti-competitive....
...“As long as I’m doing something to help humanity make the next leap to the stars and beyond, I’m satisfied,” he says. “But I would go to space in a heartbeat.”...
...“I’m dubious about Breitbart’s potential for sustained financial success internationally,” he says....
...• M&G has appointed Taro Shiroyama as a managing director responsible for institutional business development in Japan, a newly created role....
...Grants have accounted for only about half the LLC’s $890m of spending since inception, says Matt Bannick, managing partner at the Omidyar Network....
...More from Matt Levine here. Related link: What’s email? – FT Alphaville (2009)...
...“The market has already started to evolve,” says Matt Naber, co-head of European leveraged finance at Morgan Stanley....
...Raine counts Sean Parker, former president of Facebook, and Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google among its investors....
...“I’m not sure they actually did anything wrong,” says Michael Sohn, an antitrust lawyer at Davis Polk. “They are facing an administration that prides itself on aggressively enforcing antitrust laws.”...
...“This is to democratize recruiting,” said Matt Mund, Monster’s vice president of product. BeKnown launched as a pilot project on Saturday in 35 countries and 19 languages....
...But Matt Hancock, the up and coming Tory MP for Elveden, has pointed out that relief is at hand. The government is adding an extra lane to get the traffic flowing on the A11 around Elveden....
...William Morris, meanwhile, has strengths in music as well as film, representing Kanye West, Britney Spears, and The Killers, as well as M.I.A and Amy Winehouse....
...“This deal may surprise those Telefonica shareholders who were already nervous on Telefónica’s M&A strategy following Cesky Telecom,” Credit Suisse First Boston said in a research note....
...The group is led by Matt Sutcliffe, a former director of Evolution Securities....
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