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...“I would expect them to at least look at an opco-propco structure”....
...Nicholas Hanna and Mark Tan will join Pinsent Masons as partners based in Singapore. Both join from K & L Gates....
...Law firms including Linklaters, Fieldfisher and Pinsent Masons are also considering whether to conserve cash by delaying equity payouts to partners....
...Law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Eran Chvika as a project finance partner in Paris. Chvika joins from Norton Rose Fulbright....
...Pinsent Masons has added a technology, media and communications partner to its Singapore office. Alexander Shepherd is joining the law firm from Bird & Bird, where he was a partner....
...Legg Mason already operates self-managed Ucits and AIFM funds in Ireland. Its Dublin office will open this year — with more staff....
...Mr Whitehead joins the investment affiliate of Legg Mason from Sarasin and Partners....
...Microsoft has bowed to pressure from an activist investor, ceding a board seat to ValueAct Capital as it tries to quell unrest on Wall Street....
...The investor is also searching for a new chief executive for Legg Mason, the asset manager where he sits on the board....
...US energy stocks led the gains on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 Energy index rising 1 per cent by the market close in New York....
...Prior to his Wall Street career, he worked for 11 years in the chemical industry, including two years in Europe....
...Demand for such properties will certainly fall off in the face of a deep global recession and the threat of bonus clawbacks on Wall Street....
...The two then contacted the trading desks of Wall Street to let them know they were buyers and began accumulating....
...The last big wave of consolidation in the mutual fund industry occurred in 2005 with mega-mergers between Citigroup and Legg Mason; and BlackRock and Merrill Lynch....
...Hallmark’s programmes, which have made it one of the top 10 pay-TV channels in the UK, include a huge library of classic television programmes such as Murder, She Wrote and Perry Mason....
...Howard Mason, analyst at Sanford Bernstein, sees encouraging signs....
...Wall Street retreated on Friday as rising crude prices and disappointing guidance from technology bellwether Dell put a lid on the market’s recent upward momentum....
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