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...Seasonal appeal Investors v poachers Wildlife conservation finance, for decades the preserve of wealthy donors and governments, is now attracting institutional investors....
...PAI Partners has hired Maud Brown, a former managing director at Investcorp, as a partner to head up its New York office....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...BoE v Treasury The FT splashes on in-fighting between the UK’s Treasury and Bank of England over the City’s access to the EU after Brexit....
...First, a scoop to start: French private equity firm PAI Partners is set to unveil plans to acquire Dutch soft drink bottling firm Refresco Group in a deal which is expected to value the Amsterdam-listed...
...El País reports Mr Puigdemont and his separatists now want to create an international branch of pro-independence institutions to push their cause abroad....
...Ajit Pai, the new pro-business FCC chairman, seems happy to help big broadcasters....
...“An extreme Brexit: May jumps into the void”, ran the title of the editorial in El País, the left-leaning Spanish newspaper....
...“We are confident that Permira V has the right strategy to enable us to continue investing wisely in the current environment,” Tom Lister, Permira’s US-based co-managing partner, said in a statement....
...PAI’s €5.4bn fund V, which it raised amid great fanfare last year, has been frozen since the private equity group’s top two chiefs announced surprise plans to leave, blaming a “coup d’état” by the new head...
...Fund V has invested about a fifth of investors’ commitments. A 50 per cent reduction in undrawn commitments would cut the overall fund to about €3.2bn. PAI declined to comment....
...Advisers added that the Spanish group, which has attracted an online audience of more than 30m users with assets such as its El Pais newspaper, is also in talks with technology groups about possible digital...
...“Investors definitely have the feeling that the size of the fund raised for PAI V, at €5.4bn, is no longer adapted for the current market,” said the investor....
...Investors told the Financial Times they expected it to survive while shrinking PAI fund V by 30-50 per cent....
...KKR is seeking €7.7bn for its third European fund, while PAI is looking to gather €10bn for its Europe V fund....
...silent h, eradicating the differentiated use of g and j, and b and v) would mean in practice. ”One of the great conquests of our language is the unity in spelling which occurred between 1884 and 1927....
...“India’s renaissance in the 21st century will come from Calcutta, like it did in the 19th century,” said T.V. Mohandas Pai, finance director of Infosys....
...Rohan Pai, Mumbai, India Christian Stracke: On the impact on India, we think the subprime crisis should have an only minimal direct impact on India’s economy....
...But V Mohandas Pai, chief financial officer, defended the rate. “Seventy eight per cent utilisation is a sweet spot as it gives you potential to grow at 3-4 per cent....
...Night for frankness Knight Frank scored a coup with its line-up for a “Europe v USA” debate on September 22....
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