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...At around midday on Monday, Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global, was eating a sandwich at a table with Nelson Peltz, the billionaire activist investor, and his lieutenant and son-in-law Ed Garden....
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@FT.com One update to Thursday’s lead item: We should have said that Michael Jensen, the Harvard Business School professor, popularised the phrase...
...Separately, a retired US judge has been appointed to argue against the justice department’s move to drop the criminal case against Michael Flynn....
...Milken was at investor Leon Black’s house talking about criminal justice....
...Alphaville’s Jamie Powell looks at the unicorns’ Van Wilder moment. (FT) A merger made in heaven?...
...James Michael Leathes Prior — commonly known as Jim — was born in October 1927, the son of a Norwich solicitor....
...Mr Powell wrote to the prime minister informing her he had urged Leon Brittan, trade and industry secretary, to ask the solicitor-general to appraise Mr Heseltine’s claims....
...The document is among files that shed light on the events surrounding the tussle between Mr Heseltine and trade minister Leon Brittan....
...To Michael J Glennon, in National Security and Double Government, the shifting personalities are mere detail....
...“We are getting close to the Hollywoodesque situation in which a US president might be in a position to direct an operation tactically at the lowest levels,” says Michael Clarke, director of London’s Royal...
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