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...Law firm Allen & Overy already uses Harvey but has insisted the technology would not replace any staff, reduce billable hours or save money for the firm or its clients....
...Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis Allen Lane £25/Norton $27 272/288 pages Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux Weidenfeld & Nicolson...
...APRIL Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (Faber)O’Hagan’s take on the era of #MeToo portrays a high-flying art historian whose glittering life comes crashing down, which is played out in front of a bustling...
...Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said the sector had become reliant on butchers from the Philippines, and that it cost about £12,000 to bring them to the UK....
...VMware’s existing owners Michael Dell and US technology private equity group Silver Lake, who stand to get billions in cash once (and if) the ink dries, will also be watching with bated breath....
...The London-based stylist, who has worked with Jared Leto and Alfie Allen, co-founded the recently formed Celebrity Stylists Union in the hope of establishing “fair” minimum rates, transparency and deals...
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired senior private equity partners Ian Barratt and Sinead O’Shea from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London, per Financial News....
...Working with Michael Bhaskar, Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, now part of Google, warns of the dangers of sleepwalking into catastrophe....
...Mark O’Connell in Slate asked what it is to play with cliché in Blarney and put-on Irishness....
...Clair Wills’ ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ is published by Allen Lane on January 25 Copyright © 2024, Clair Wills....
...Its boss Michael O’Leary is aiming to double passenger numbers over the next decade to 300mn a year by 2034 — more than any airline has yet managed....
...Michael Cohen, who as Trump’s lawyer and fixer once said he would “take a bullet” for his boss, instead turned on him....
...Scott Allen, Paw’s barrister, said that his client’s wrongdoing happened within “a matter of minutes”....
...This week brought fresh upsets to the bold strategy, placing further pressure on Di Sibio to pull off a win — or risk losing his job in a crushing defeat, the FT’s Michael O’Dwyer and Stephen Foley report...
...US firm Latham & Watkins agreed to take 250,000 sq ft and UK firms Allen & Overy and Travers Smith signed up to leases on 271,000 and 160,000 sq ft of City of London office space respectively....
...Allen compared Paw to “a very junior cog in a very fast-moving and intricate machine”....
...“The private equity market is incredibly busy, and set to become busier, so we are adjusting our business model for this team,” said Michael Bates, Clifford Chance’s UK managing partner....
...Two other magic circle firms, Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, moved to more flexible pay models last year, while Clifford Chance was reported to have taken a similar action in July....
...Chris O’Shea, chief executive of Centrica, owner of British Gas, said the situation would get “much worse” from October without further intervention....
...Law firm Allen & Overy, which worked on Greensill’s “pre-IPO” funding round months before the finance company’s collapse, was paid £856,000 for work before Greensill formally entered administration and has...
...Pay deals including bonuses have climbed to record highs for some at the law firms, including the so-called magic circle: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters....
...For Michael Kors, one of fashion’s greatest showmen, the shutdown was felt especially acutely....
...The festival’s organisers, Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily Eavis, have resisted milking the event financially....
...“Asset managers are acquiring direct indexing providers, introducing proprietary solutions to market, and applying direct indexing to new asset classes,” said Tom O’Shea, director of managed accounts at...
...Shea, research director at Cerulli Associates....
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