Hints and tips:
...I’m here and I’m going to live up to that role.”...
...H&M’s chief executive Helena Helmersson has quit after just over four years in the top job as the Swedish fast-fashion group struggles to improve profitability....
...But if shopping becomes much less annoying, I’m sold....
...Apparel giant H&M was among Renewcell’s investors, as the FT reported back in 2019....
...I’ve received over a thousand emails from people who have all sorts of things to say about me, about my research, about how I’m wrong, how I’m terrible, how I’m evil. I’ve been called a false prophet....
...Last year the group rejected an offer of more than €11bn for its Italian business from French billionaire Xavier Niel’s Iliad and private equity fund Apax....
...A number of rival telecoms companies have become shareholders in Vodafone, such as Liberty Global and Xavier Niel, the French telecoms tycoon, which alerted analysts to the potential for M&A involving the...
...“If someone was to go out to market [today] with similar ambitions and a similar quality team, I’m not sure they would get funded.” Additional reporting by Madhumita Murgia in San Francisco...
...A number of rival telecoms groups have become shareholders in Vodafone, such as Liberty Global and French telecoms tycoon Xavier Niel, which alerted analysts to the potential for M&A involving the company...
...“I’m not sure it has anything to do with Kering but having control over such an influencing crowd can be useful,” they said, adding that the deal was “more likely to have crossover implications for his wife...
...So maybe what I’m doing is just an exaggeration, a dramatisation of what we all do all the time.”...
...Aficionados of Fantasy M&A think Drahi is interested in BT’s Openreach network business. Atlas stressed it is independent of Iliad and Niel....
...French telecoms tycoon Xavier Niel announced last September that he had bought 2.5 per cent of the company through his investment company Atlas Investissement....
...Today I’m drawn to the blend of family histories and reinvention found in a diverse range of cookbooks....
...M&A banker Nathan Eldridge has left Citigroup after almost three decades to join private equity firm Platinum Equity, per Reuters....
...Barclays has named Dan Grabos as co-head of Americas M&A, alongside Larry Hamdan, in New York. He will keep his current role as co-head of industrials M&A....
...“I am not nervous, I will stay quiet, and do the portfolio transaction when I’m ready to do so....
...Ronald Reagan quipped there was nothing scarier than the words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Legal consulting firm Montresor Legal has hired Roger Barron, most recently Paul Hastings’ global vice-chair of M&A, and Freddie Lawson, a director at legal search firm Fox Rodney, as a senior adviser and...
...I’m trying to do that for other artists now.”...
...News round-up UK regulator’s chiefs defend decision to block Microsoft-Activision merger (FT) UK competition tsar calls for crackdown on utilities ‘ripping off’ customers (FT) Xavier Niel-led group to...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] I’m Josh Gabert-Doyon, in for Marc Filippino, and here’s the news you need to start your day....
...Other bankers point to potential targets in the telecoms sector, where French billionaires Patrick Drahi and Xavier Niel are amassing stakes in BT and Vodafone....
...This week billionaire Xavier Niel grabbed a £750mn slice of Vodafone; the UK’s biggest telecom group....
...Potential buyers include the Czech investor Daniel Křetínský; a joint bid from telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel and the Silvio Berlusconi-backed conglomerate MediaForEurope; and a consortium of French entrepreneurs...
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