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...Sir Ian Gibson, chairman, said investors had shown “unanimous and complete” support for Sly Bailey, chief executive, but acknowledged that her remuneration was being reviewed....
...“I am big,” says the slighted Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950). “It’s the pictures that got small.” She had no idea....
...Neither Mr Gibson-Smith nor Ms Furse suggested they were privy to any inside information about the Treasury’s plans....
...Chris Gibson-Smith, LSE chairman, reiterated that view, telling shareholders on Wednesday that the company’s strong performance supported the board’s view that the Nasdaq bid had been “inadequate”....
...Chris Gibson-Smith and Clara Furse, LSE chairman and chief executive respectively, were in Milan awaiting the outcome of the meeting....
...Chris Gibson-Smith, chairman of the LSE, welcomed the rejection, saying the exchange looks forward to operating “without the distraction of ill-considered approaches which fail to understand the value of...
...“On the day we launched the bid [in December], my chairman came to London for the singular purpose of speaking to [LSE chairman] Chris Gibson-Smith,” he says. “There was never even a call back....
...Chris Gibson-Smith, chairman, said it was time for Nasdaq “to put up or shut up”. Nasdaq said it was surprised the LSE had rebuffed every effort it had made to talk directly to its board....
...It urged shareholders to continue to reject a bid that Chris Gibson-Smith, LSE chairman, said did “not even give shareholders standalone value.”...
...On Thursday, Chris Gibson-Smith, LSE chairman, said of the offers tentatively extended for the company: "The board had no hesitation in recommending that shareholders reject [them]."...
...Christopher Gibson-Smith issued the LSE’s strongest hint yet that that the exchange, which has received bid approaches from its two largest European rivals, may yet remain an independent entity....
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