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...They are promoting a growing number of associates to be salaried partners, who do not share in a law firm’s profits....
...Teneo, the advisory group to chief executives, is acquiring financial restructuring company Goldin Associates. As a result, the entire Goldin team will join Teneo’s capital advisory segment....
...She was previously a managing associate in the financial regulatory practice at Linklaters....
...Previous associates have included Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand, but there is also a steady flow of interns and associates, many of them in their 20s....
...Shorting China James Chanos Founder of Kynikos Associates and famed for betting against Enron, the fraudulent energy company that collapsed in 2001....
...The success of the recent IPOs such as American Renal Associates, which operates dialysis clinics, the first leveraged buyout since First Data, provides some optimism that the listings market is reopening...
...At a meeting on July 17, shareholders in the South Korean construction group narrowly approved its all-stock takeover by sister company Cheil....
...Construction group Samsung C&T in May agreed to be acquired by diversified sister company Cheil Industries in an all-share deal that has been criticised by shareholders including US hedge fund Elliott Associates...
...C&T is a construction company with a 4.1 per cent stake in Samsung Electronics, while Cheil runs an amusement park and fashion business....
...US hedge fund Elliott Associates is pursuing legal action against Samsung C&T’s board, alleging that the deal was timed to maximise a disparity between the two companies’ market valuations, resulting in...
...A restructuring at the Samsung group has run into opposition, with US hedge fund Elliott Associates attempting to block the merger of two key affiliates of the South Korean conglomerate....
...Shareholders will vote on Friday on the South Korean construction company’s Won10tn ($8.7bn) acquisition by sister company Cheil Industries, which the board says will protect investor value, citing gloomy...
...A Seoul court has rejected an appeal from US activist fund Elliott Associates to block the merger of two Samsung group companies, saying that the proposed deal did not represent an illegal transfer of value...
...US activist hedge fund Elliott Associates has asked a South Korean court to block a merger between two major Samsung affiliates that is seen as part of the group’s efforts to transfer control to a new generation...
...Elliott is trying to block a merger between Samsung’s construction business and Cheil Industries that it claims will only benefit the controlling Lee family....
...Activist fund Elliott Associates is trying to block a takeover of construction business Samsung C&T by sister company Cheil Industries....
...But that process has come under attack from one of the world’s most aggressive activist funds: Elliott Associates, which pursued Argentina over unpaid debts to the point of trying to seize one of its naval...
...On Thursday, Elliott Associates revealed that it had amassed a 7.1 per cent stake in Samsung C&T, just in time to try to block a takeover by Cheil Industries....
...But Choi Chi-hun, Samsung C&T’s co-chief executive, argued that shareholders would benefit from synergies with Cheil, which has businesses ranging from construction to fashion and theme parks....
...Samsung’s succession process has come under attack from US hedge fund Elliott Associates, which is trying to block a deal involving the group’s construction business that it claims will only benefit the...
...The NPS has the swing vote in the high-profile fight between hedge fund Elliott Associates and the country’s biggest conglomerate....
...Canary Wharf’s construction pipeline — a large shopping centre and more than 3,000 homes — fits in well with this diversification strategy....
...The role of Bloomberg Associates will be to provide a help-desk to mayoral politics around the world....
...Focus on the thinking that goes into the construction of such products....
...Mr Jiang is a close associate of Zhou Yongkang, the man in charge of China’s sprawling internal security and intelligence services until March this year, and his downfall has raised expectations that Mr...
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