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...Chime Communications, the London-listed sports marketing specialist, is in advanced discussions to sell itself for more than £350m to Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP and US buyout group Providence Equity Partners...
...“We don’t worry about where the money’s going as long as we can capture our share of it,” Sir Martin said....
...Steve Liechti, analyst at Investec, said the overall results were robust. “Money is disappointing but the other areas in the group are offsetting that,” he said....
...In 2010, Sir Martin said Google had become a “friendlier frenemy.” Sir Martin’s comments came as WPP reported results for the six months ended June 30....
...In May 2008, the US authorities detained Martin Liechti, head of the bank’s offshore banking activities for the Americas, as a “material witness”....
...Testimony from Mr Birkenfeld, who worked as a middle-ranking banker in UBS’s Geneva office, led to the detention in Miami earlier this year, “as a material witness”, of Martin Liechti, the group’s head of...
...Mr Birkenfeld was formerly part of a team headed by Martin Liechti, UBS’s head of international private banking for North and South America....
...Martin Liechti, the Zurich-based head of North and South America for UBS’s international wealth management business, was held in connection with a US justice department investigation into investment advice...
...In one e-mail sent in 2007 that was obtained by investigators, Martin Liechti, a senior UBS private banking executive who has since been detained by US officials as a material witness, put pressure on his...
...Mr Birkenfeld was formerly a member of the team headed by Martin Liechti, one of the most senior private bankers at UBS....
...However, matters reached a head last month, when Martin Liechti, the bank’s head of wealth management international for the Americas, was detained....
...TNS has rejected two unwanted advances from Sir Martin Sorrell’s marketing group....
...Last year, the US authorities detained Martin Liechti, then UBS head of offshore private banking for the Americas, as a “material witness” before he was allowed to leave the country....
...Martin Liechti, a senior UBS private banking executive, who has been detained by US officials as a material witness, appeared before the hearing but invoked his rights against self-incrimination, as did...
...Mr Birkenfeld, a US citizen who has lived in Switzerland for some years, was formerly part of a team headed by Martin Liechti, UBS’s Switzerland-based head of international private banking for North and...
...Martin Liechti, UBS’s Swiss-based head of international private banking for North and South America, was detained by the US authorities last month and remains in the US as a “material witness.”...
...In a January 2007 memo, Martin Liechti, head of UBS’s Switzerland-based private banking activities for the Americas, congratulated staff on their efforts in 2006 but warned, “our competition is catching...
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