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...Additional reporting by John Aglionby and Arjun Neil Alim in London...
...Mid-tier auditors Grant Thornton and BDO have also removed their Russian affiliates from their global networks....
...GFG Alliance paid Grant Thornton nearly £6m in fees from 2016 to 2020. Neil Barrell, a senior partner at the accounting firm, joined GFG in 2019....
...Last year, Grant Thornton resigned as auditor to Sports Direct — now called Frasers Group — after the company revealed immediately before the release of annual results that it was under investigation by...
...Diane Swonk, chief economist at the audit firm Grant Thornton, says the US is now “two million people short of where we should be” due to restrictive immigration policies in place since 2016, even before...
...Investors were offered video calls with Lex Greensill and the firm’s chief financial officer Neil Garrod....
...Link said on Thursday it remained in “regular discussions” with Grant Thornton, the fund’s auditor....
...Mr Bristow and John Thornton, Barrick’s executive chairman, have said it will focus mostly on five “world-class” mines, including Cortez and Goldstrike in Nevada, Kibali in the DRC, Loulo-Gounkoto in Mali...
...The situation is reminiscent of Frasers’ hunt for an auditor last year, after Grant Thornton decided not to seek re-election for its audit....
...Other service providers to the fund include auditors Grant Thornton and Northern Trust, the US depository bank....
...When the Randgold merger was announced in September 2018 there were worries about how Mr Bristow would work alongside Barrick’s executive chairman John Thornton, a no-nonsense ex-Goldman Sachs banker....
...Hundreds of thousands of investors trapped in Neil Woodford’s failed flagship fund face losses of at least a fifth on the bulk of their holdings following Europe’s biggest investment scandal for a decade...
...Neil Woodford used to be the biggest name in fund management. Now he seems to be a fund manager in name only....
...By appointing RSM as his retail chain’s new auditor in place of Grant Thornton, he has shown he knows all about the transfer market in the lower leagues....
...Maybe beleaguered fund manager Neil Woodford can catch a break, after all....
...It has been used by Neil Woodford, Asos, Restaurant Group, Marks and Spencer and, lately, Schroders....
...Neil Old, the chief executive of Jessops, resigned over the summer while auditor Grant Thornton quit last year....
...Grant Thornton has separately started a “line by line” review of its audit book, which also includes Neil Woodford’s quoted Woodford Patient Capital Trust, in recent weeks, according to a senior partner....
...Barrick is led by chief executive Mark Bristow, a South African miner fond of big game hunting, and executive chairman John Thornton, an urbane former Goldman Sachs banker....
...“The fear is, if the Conservatives get in post election, they will water down any commitments that they’ve made,” said James Thornton, founder of ClientEarth, which has previously sued the government over...
...Neil Bennett, chief executive of Maitland, said no one had raised any concerns about him sitting on the committee. “If they have any issues, they should raise them and we should try to resolve them....
...Northern Trust and Grant Thornton declined to comment....
...“You can’t negotiate anywhere, particularly in Africa with a deadline,” he said, adding that Mr Thornton had laid a “very good foundation.”...
...Is this the beginning of the end for Neil Woodford?...
...Mr Goldberg said that John Thornton, Barrick’s executive chairman and a former Goldman Sachs banker, was the “ultimate decision maker” in the company....
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