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...The California-based lossmaking electric vehicle maker topped the monthly trading leaderboard five times in 2023, even as its shares plummeted 99 per cent....
...“I’ve been in the Valley for 20 years and I’m increasingly disappointed with the way we behave,” said one senior banker who handles deals for venture firms....
...US megadeals are slowly bringing M&A action back If a UK paper and packaging company is at the centre of a bidding war, then M&A must be back....
...“I’m not here to win friends and be happy ever after. We obviously have to be respectful....
...I’m pretty sure it can drive in any other city in the world,” he said. Current Baidu executives declined to be interviewed....
...“Everywhere you look in Saudi Arabia, you can see growth and progress and I’m excited to be part of that,” Nadal said....
...I’m still slowly recovering from a very bad cold that I caught at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two weeks ago — but at least I’ve got my voice back!...
...I’m not trying to defend all the practices, some of which are illegal or should be illegal....
...That does not sound like a feistily negotiated M&A outcome, much less a market verdict....
...To achieve similar targets, electric battery makers were offered subsidies that could account for more than 50 per cent of the cost of the product....
...Some good news Discussion of electric bikes usually focuses on the positive impact they can have in polluted cities....
...William Mansfield, Credit Suisse’s head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is departing for a new role at Deutsche Bank....
...M&A lawyer Jon Bowden has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a partner in Singapore. He joins from White & Case....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Zelenskyy in Washington: US president Joe Biden will host Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House....
...Analysts anticipate J&J to have earned $1.97 a share in the quarter, which would represent 9 per cent in annual profit growth....
...Stock exchange rules would have prevented the miner from selling cobalt for electric vehicle batteries at mates’ rates, shareholding regardless....
...Smart reads Clean slate First Boston churned out industry heavyweights leaders such as Larry Fink and Joe Perella and helped modernise M&A....
...That’s not how it worked at General Electric, which in the two-decade tenure of Jack Welch was buying businesses at a rate of one a week....
...Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired Sarah Flaherty as an M&A partner, based in London. She’s currently a partner at Linklaters. Goldman Sachs has cut about 50 dealmakers in Europe, per Financial News....
...Orrick has named Pete Sugden as a partner focused on venture capital, M&A and private equity, based in London. He joins from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain....
...The renowned architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott worked alongside J Theo Halliday....
...I’m less enamoured with the price and delivery date — around £1,000 and 2023....
...I’m sure those institutions right now are embarrassed....
...(Simon Mundy) Energy debate heats up in Japan When the three major power utility companies in Japan — Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), Chubu Electric Power Company and Electric Power Development (...
...I’m not some sort of mad-cap libertarian.”https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1278764736876773383?...
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