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...The Big Read Leon Black co-founded the group that would become Apollo Global Management, one of the biggest private equity groups in the US....
...Leon Black, the New York billionaire who quit his investment group Apollo Global Management this year, has agreed to buy a £21m home in the lavish London neighbourhood of Belgravia....
...“I think it would be very difficult for the government to walk away from De Beers completely,” Peter Leon, partner and Africa chair at Herbert Smith Freehills, said....
...A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Abacus)It’s the year for collaborative projects: this collection, timed to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, includes tales by the likes of Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman...
...EG Group also owns Leon, the fast-food chain, and Cooplands, the bakery chain....
...Chloe Smith, the disabilities minister, takes on the work and pensions brief....
...DD’s Mark Vandevelde and Sujeet Indap have more on this extraordinary legal battle here....
...A clash with $481bn private equity group Apollo over the bankruptcy of casino group Caesars led to Marks falling out with its founder Leon Black — a longtime friend and fellow Milken acolyte....
...Apollo under scrutiny over lingering ties to Leon Black Links between the investment company and its billionaire co-founder remain fraught but may be loosening....
...Leon Black accuses former Apollo lieutenant of attempted ‘coup’ The accusation, detailed in a motion filed in New York state court yesterday, was linked to a scandal involving the late Jeffrey Epstein and...
...Luke Walker, who designed menswear at Dunhill, Paul Smith, Lanvin and Drake’s before launching his own label LEJ, knows a thing or two about daytime loungewear styling....
...Rashbass’s email, seen by DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Rob Smith, laid bare the tough consequences. “Unfortunately some central roles will no longer be required,” it said....
...Born in Yorkshire, Mark Christopher Huband grew up in Essex, a restless child and adolescent, frequently hanging out with what he described in a memoir as a gang of “skinny white kids”....
...It was a gruelling skirmish that saw Oaktree’s founder Howard Marks fall out with longtime friend and Apollo founder Leon Black (DD’s Sujeet Indap wrote a book about this billionaires brawl)....
...How about a dark-blue knit from Paul Smith? Miles would have approved. A mustardy, loose-fitting Hermès gets the 1970’s reference just right....
...Amess, the representative for Southend West in Essex, on the south coast of England, was stabbed multiple times during a meeting with constituents....
...The Amazon founder will be flying with his younger brother Mark, 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk and 18-year-old Dutch student Oliver Daemen....
...It added: “Leon has communicated directly with our investors on this issue and we remain in open dialogue.”...
...(FT, WSJ) Why did Leon Black pay Jeffrey Epstein?...
...As well as Oxford, there is the St Matthew Passion from St John’s, Smith Square, while Saffron Hall in Essex is offering a Palm Sunday performance of the St John Passion, available on demand till April 27...
...The retailer, a 50/50 joint venture between Ocado Group and Marks and Spencer, does not currently deliver north of the border, but Smith said launching in Scotland was “a matter of when not if”....
...What would Apollo look like without Leon Black?...
...One businessman from Kazakhstan brought the Latvian a holographic ornamental pistol in a box as a gift to mark the occasion....
...Widely considered one of the financial industry’s finest minds, the incoming Apollo chief moved swiftly to put his mark on the company....
...“Literary Heavyweight” features Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, while “Classics Collector” is heavy on Austen and Brontë. Hopefully, Gove and co have downloaded a few for their next appearance....
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