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Inside BusinessKaye Wiggins
In Hong Kong, companies do not know what to worry about or why
...But there’s a question mark, right? Hong Kong has a whole bunch of firms that do due diligence — what if one of them pisses someone off?”...
March 12, 2024
The Art Market
Marlborough Gallery to close as tougher times bite
...Watkins says that, in the immediate term, the pair are focused on helping their artists find new representation, where needed....
April 4, 2024
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers
How big should a US law firm be? Plus: top 35 innovative firms
...“All the innovation will be from the bottom up,” says Mark Thierfelder, Dechert co-chair. “The people performing tasks on the ground will be figuring out how to unlock [AI]’s value.”...
December 5, 2023
Due Diligence
Goldman Sachs: not all co-heads are made equal Premium content
...He joins from Latham & Watkins. Lloyds Banking Group will appoint Nathan Bostock as a non-executive director from August. He is a former chief executive of Santander UK....
February 23, 2024
Europe Express
Why Blinken avoided meeting Lavrov at a fraught OSCE meeting Premium content
...Now read these European odyssey: The crazy tale of how Jonathan Watkins got from Gatwick to Rome — on an invalid passport....
November 30, 2023
Disrupted Times
It’s not me, it’s you: gig workers send Valentine’s message to employers
...Thinking of a nice meal delivered from your favourite restaurant to mark Valentine’s Day this evening?...
February 14, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
IPOs
Scrutinising the UK’s new ‘match fit’ listing rule book
...It’s a substantial document aimed at making the UK listing regime “match fit,” according to the law firm Latham & Watkins....
January 2, 2024
The Big Read
The US pushback against ‘Basel Endgame’
...Some 97 per cent of the hundreds of responses to regulators’ consultation expressed concern about some of the measures, according to analysis from law firm Latham & Watkins....
March 19, 2024
Due Diligence
The Wall Street bank cosying up to superstar lawyers Premium content
...Job moves Latham & Watkins has added two partners to its banking team in London....
November 28, 2023
Due Diligence
Can journalists beat Blackstone and Bridgewater? Premium content
...Another interesting example is Mark Cuban’s investment in the now-defunct Sharesleuth.com, which also combined reporting and investing. It didn’t end well for Cuban’s venture....
November 2, 2023
News in-depthFood & Beverage
Have consumer goods price rises peaked?
...At Nestlé, chief executive Mark Schneider said the company, which makes Nespresso and KitKats, would slow price rises in the second half of the year....
August 23, 2023
Due Diligence
Private equity hit by Earth, Wind and Fire in Berlin Premium content
...Job moves Latham & Watkins has hired Freshfields’ Mark Austin as a partner in its capital markets and public representation practice, based in London....
June 9, 2023
Due Diligence
Was this billionaire gambler taken for a ride? Premium content
...He joins from Latham & Watkins. Smart reads Who is Sam Altman? The OpenAI chief is advancing artificial intelligence while also warning of its dangers....
October 4, 2023
Due Diligence
Weinstein, Ackman and Lasry make a play for Sculptor Premium content
...Law firm Latham & Watkins has hired M&A specialist Andrew Elken as a partner in its New York office. Elken joins from Cravath, Swaine & Moore where he advised clients including Amazon....
August 22, 2023
ReviewFT Books Essay
A mind-infecting virus: the dark dreams of QAnon
...Though the original Q has been tracked down to the home of a US expat called Ron Watkins living in Manila, it now doesn’t seem much to matter who he is....
August 16, 2023
FT Live
Financial Adviser Service Awards 2024
Who gives you 5 star service?
Thursday, 21 NovemberNatural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
Due Diligence
How the Thames Water-gate burst Premium content
...Or, as Latham & Watkins partner David Walker put it: “There’s a lot of headwinds.”Global M&A fell 38 per cent to $1.3tn in the first half of the year, the lowest deal volume since the start of the pandemic...
June 30, 2023
Due Diligence
Greenhill and Lazard: investment banking pioneers at a crossroads Premium content
...What wasn’t known at the time was that those trading levels would represent Greenhill’s high-water mark as a public stock....
May 23, 2023
Due Diligence
The private equity deal behind Murdoch’s $787.5mn loss Premium content
...PJT Partners has hired Latham & Watkins’ former global co-chair of M&A Mark Gerstein as a senior adviser....
April 20, 2023
Cryptofinance
US pursues North Korea in crypto war games
...In a past life, I wrote about Ron Watkins, a leading figure in the QAnon movement, who once asked for bitcoin to finance his political ambitions in Arizona....
January 27, 2023
ReviewMusic
BBC Proms — opening weekend brings assured performances of Verdi and Vaughan Williams
...all-English programme played to one of Wilson’s eclectic strengths and opened with an exquisitely balanced, if passingly inaudible, performance of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis to mark...
July 18, 2022
Deloitte LLP (United Kingdom)
Deloitte acquires Kemp Little in UK legal services push
...“This transaction marks a key moment in the growth of Deloitte Legal,” said Richard Houston, chief executive of Deloitte UK....
November 3, 2020
ReviewMusic
Raucous Arsenal fans invade concert hall to hear classical score
...The first half included Echo (2017), a short song cycle by Watkins, beautifully written for the voice, its emotions lyrically probed by soprano Ruby Hughes with Watkins himself at the piano....
November 8, 2021
HTSI
The dream world of Liselotte Watkins
...The event marks something of a homecoming for Watkins, who was born in Nyköping, 100km south of Stockholm, but has lived in Italy – first Milan, then Rome and, more recently, Tuscany – since 2009....
September 1, 2021
Due Diligence
The corporate raider’s book of etiquette and leveraged buyouts Premium content
...Backed by a stronger dollar, a larger domestic market and a nonstop work ethic, firms like Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins are becoming features of the UK market, not sideshows....
August 10, 2022
Moral Money
US companies reveal how climate change is increasing costs Premium content
...have prompted companies to “show their work” and be specific about how they determined certain information was not material, said Betty Huber, a partner and global co-chair of ESG practice at Latham & Watkins...
March 2, 2022

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