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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....
...“It’s hard to not feel aggrieved when government policy encourages energy efficiency; you try to do things right and end up creating a mountain of paperwork. Some people just haven’t bothered.”...
...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....
...Aspen Snowmass is opening a new lift that will whisk skiers to a high, north-facing portion of Aspen Mountain for the first time....
...“These challenges greatly impact the preservation of quilombola culture.”...
...North of the Vjosa loom the Accursed mountains, the name alone irresistible to adventurers....
...Some see in the coming AI era an opportunity for South Korea to lift its sights beyond manufacturing and the preservation of its biggest players....
...The front of the property has floor-to-ceiling windows looking out towards the Slieve Mish mountains and Kerry Head....
...“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...
...I’ve done a bit of fly-fishing, mainly up American mountains rather than in the UK, where I couldn’t afford to get near one of the fashionable beats....
...You arrive by boat, zooming up the lake – 500 miles long, the second deepest in the world, in a majestic mountain landscape – which is already humbling....
...The investment and costs were sky-high, with Walpole destroying his receipts and leaving a mountain of unpaid bills when he died....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
...It’s a country with a corner on spectacular landscapes, but none gets my blood moving quicker than the Atlas Mountains, which, with their endless mountain and valley trails – made by people, mules, maybe...
...The Mountain View search giant is therefore buying US specialist Mandiant for $5.4bn cash....
...Yes, we decide, if we hiked Cadillac Mountain, just across the narrows. No problem....
...Compliance controls and document preservation among employees has become more challenging during the pandemic with staff working remotely....
...Mountain View-based Google announced the equity investment on Thursday alongside a broader 10-year partnership that CME chief executive Terry Duffy said “will transform derivatives markets”....
...Maison Bleue, with its poolside view of the San Jacinto Mountains, is even more dazzling. We are free to wander around, though volunteer guides are on hand....
...Some 85 per cent of Ilhabela is a protected state park with no further development permitted, so the island’s preservation is ensured....
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