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...One hit the container ship MSC Sky II on Monday, while the US warship USS Carney shot down another. It did not say what happened to the other two weapons....
...The Grade II-listed house dates to 1827 and, like its neighbours on the garden square, was designed by master builder Thomas Cubitt....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...Companies are still staying private longer and growing — so that narrative hasn’t changed....
...Race Capital II, LP . . . Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...Its deal with Allego comes just weeks after Sunlight Financial, a business that helps finance residential solar systems, became a public company following its merger with Spartan II....
...In December 2014, Mr Smith donated all the income he had accumulated offshore, some $200m, to a charitable foundation he runs, the Fund II Foundation....
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...The Grade II*-listed 1820s home sold for about £95m, according to people familiar with the purchase....
...From our translation: By “the founders”, she means the shareholders of ETK, a private company whose equity was almost entirely owned by Mr Karmanov....
...Separately, emails from another cache, leaked online in 2014, indicate that one of Mr Kulibayev’s private companies may have benefited directly from the pipeline project....
...“We think this model is perfect for the Mifid II environment.”...
...In a letter to the regulator last week the Council of Institutional Investors, which represents big public and private retirement funds, warned the regulator that its guidance for proxy advisers “may make...
...Carlos Abadi is managing director of DecisionBoundaries, LLC, a New York-based international financial advisory firm....
...All of this puts serious doubts on Vision Fund II....
...Founded in 1996, Tradeweb has been one of the winners from post-crisis rules such as the US Dodd-Frank act and Mifid II in Europe, which have incentivised more trading on transparent electronic markets....
...Campaigners have already persuaded KKR and Bain Capital, two of the private equity firms behind the ill-starred 2005 buyout of Toys R Us, to accept the principle of worker compensation....
...Intelligent curation and exclusive information: This is Due Diligence, the FT’s daily briefing on corporate finance, private equity and M&A. DD is delivered to your inbox Tuesday-Friday at 5am UK time....
...Concerns over HNA’s access to financing date from China’s crackdown, last summer, on risky financing practices by its largest and most acquisitive private conglomerates....
...Mr Dobbin expects more deals by big companies buying up niche players in areas where they do not already have expertise, such as closed-end, long duration strategies in private equity, private debt and mezzanine...
...It advises global public and private companies, financial institutions and wealthy individuals....
...These two companies, formed by Wall Street bulge bracket veterans, focus on M&A for groups that are private (often private equity-owned) or just a few years old....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was flat while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.5 per cent as health-related stocks received a boost from government reforms to private healthcare....
...Aggressive dealmaking by HNA and three other top private companies — insurer Anbang, retail group Fosun, and property-to-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda — has aroused concern in Beijing....
...Silver Run Acquisition Corp II, which has since bought two energy companies, raised more than $1bn in the year’s biggest Spac listing....
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