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...Grant Thornton is the seventh-largest US accounting firm by revenue and the deal with New Mountain represents the largest private equity investment in the accounting profession, coming hot on the heels of...
...The sale of a majority stake to New Mountain represents the biggest private equity deal in the sector....
...The US arm of accounting firm Grant Thornton has agreed to sell a majority stake to the investment group New Mountain Capital, in the largest of a wave of private equity deals that are reshaping the sector...
...The reshuffle comes ahead of Google’s first-quarter earnings on 25 April and its annual I/O developer conference on 14 and 15 May at its headquarters in Mountain View, California....
...Last week, Chicago-based Grant Thornton agreed to sell a majority stake to New Mountain Capital in the sector’s largest deal. Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...It is the most poetic part of Gloucestershire, with its valleys, woodlands and hills....
...The 1,500 sq m plot includes a barrel-shaped Finnish sauna with mountain views....
...Down to the forests of Fuentes del Narcea in the wild interior — among the largest areas of first-growth deciduous woodland in the whole of Europe....
...Aspen Snowmass is opening a new lift that will whisk skiers to a high, north-facing portion of Aspen Mountain for the first time....
...Working from a converted cowshed in the foothills of the Berwyn Mountains in north Wales, Wheeler draws on the bounty of these hidden landscapes to create elemental oak-leaf candle sconces or mushroom wall...
...We saw ice houses — deep pits in the mountain once used for storing snow — and woodland clearings where charcoal burners plied their trade right up until the 1950s....
...The open-plan living space has a galleried landing, wood floors and large windows looking on to the surrounding woodland....
...The front of the property has floor-to-ceiling windows looking out towards the Slieve Mish mountains and Kerry Head....
...Penhein, in contrast, is the real deal: eight tents, well spread out in woodland on a farming estate near Chepstow in south Wales, near the English border....
...After ferrying from north-east Attica to Aidepsos, we followed the roads into higher mountains nearer the northern tip of the island....
...After resounding success in Australia, it debuted in the UK in July last year, in north Norfolk, South Downs National Park and the Black Mountains of Wales....
...Abercairny, the estate that hosts our party, is a place for peering over glens, thinking pure thoughts and making mincemeat of small mountains. It is also a little humbling....
...Glyn Cywarch is wholly located within the national park of Snowdonia: you can see the peaks of the mountain in the distance, while lush ancient woodland shrouds the lower hills....
...“It’s on the sponsor to defend their portfolio,” said John Kline, managing director of New Mountain Capital....
...But for its Mountain View-based staff there is reportedly a “carrot” as well: dodge the commute by staying — for $99 a night — at Google’s own hotel....
...In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation...
...This was old-growth woodland where trees of enormous value had reached a magnificent size....
...For Wu’s AW22 show she created thickets of quince clambering up industrial concrete columns, dotted with Icelandic poppies in citrus shades and mountain laurel....
...It’s only now that I realise the significance of this winding, meadowed woodland. In these works, I want to reflect on the remarkable story of Dido Elizabeth Belle....
...Descending further, we threaded our way along a sinuous woodland path, where Eliza gathered wood sorrel, clover-like and with a sharp green-apple tang, from among moss-grown boulders....
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