Hints and tips:
...Kirkland & Ellis is opening a new office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia led by corporate partner Kamran Bajwa....
...Jack Dorsey’s departure from the social media group last week, egged on by Elliott’s managing partner Jesse Cohn, twisted the knife even further....
...Other new starters received Hardball by George Stalk and Robert Lachenauer, which carries the tagline: “are you playing to play, or playing to win?”...
...I stayed with my partner in Sweeney’s Bothy, an off-grid architectural wonder built by the Scottish arts group The Bothy Project....
...Fiebig has joined as a partner in the same practice....
...Nicholas Hanna and Mark Tan will join Pinsent Masons as partners based in Singapore. Both join from K & L Gates....
...Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added Ryan Cox and Eric Williams, two former Haynes and Boone partners to its corporate group in Dallas....
...Leonard Jacoby has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s technology transactions group in New York. He was previously at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton....
...But the company, which has ambitions to be the world’s largest hotel chain, has come under fire for a “toxic” culture and questionable growth practices. Sound familiar?...
...Goodwin has hired Romina Weiss as a tax practice partner in New York. She was formerly a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher....
...Blackstone has hired Ram Jagannath, a former partner at Navab Capital Partners, as a senior managing director in the group’s recently launched growth equity investing platform....
...Lahame was previously a partner at Messier Maris & Associés, before which he spent almost two decades at Credit Suisse....
...at Stonemont Financial Group....
...PJT Partners has added Antonin Baladi, a former Bank of America dealmaker, to its European TMT investment banking group, Bloomberg reports....
...HarbourVest Partners has hired Vinay Mendiratta as a managing director to focus on business development with distribution partners in the US....
...What is clear is that the circle of founding partners and individual shareholders are deeply invested in their creation....
...A $1.6bn buyout by Apax Partners fuelled an expansion in Europe as the group struggled with a drop in orders from American department stores, before the private equity firm then sold it on to PVH for $3bn...
...The discussions, which were confirmed by CKX on Monday, follow recent downbeat comments from Robert Sillerman, group chief executive, about its share price....
...One business partner challenged reports Jackson had debts of $500m (£302m)....
...Colony and Eurazeo, its French joint venture partner, have steadily raised their stake in Accor over the past six months to 30 per cent but have said they do not seek control of the group....
...While Jay and Donald rapidly built Hyatt into a leading hotel chain, Robert amassed an array of industrial holdings into the Marmon Group conglomerate....
...Mr Barrack now manages a global property empire stretching from the Raffles and Fairmont luxury hotels in Asia, to the Kerzner International, Aztar and Station Casinos gaming groups in North America, and...
...Blackstone’s initial public offering - the first by a large buy-out group - will test investors’ appetite for private equity and could be followed by similar moves from rivals, such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...The Ritz-Carlton group has teamed up with developers AGC Partners to build a 44-storey residential tower, scheduled to open in 2008....
...InterContinental Hotels Group, operator of Crown Plaza and Holiday Inn chains, provided the session’s main speculative feature....
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