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...Last year, N26 raised $170m from its investors, including China’s Tencent, Singapore’s GIC and Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, making it one of Europe’s best-funded fintechs, with a $3.5bn valuation....
...brooke.masters@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Encourage whistleblowers to take the right steps — without financial rewards / From Peter Wright, London, UK The UK regulator has to prove it...
...A&O is the second big law firm to come under fire from this judge, following his criticism of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the US firm advising Alba, the Bahrain aluminium company....
...One A&O partner, David Esseks, a former assistant US attorney, allegedly “misled” Akin Gump as to the meeting’s purpose, while Peter Watson, one of A&O’s most senior litigators, pressed Mr Kooheji by suggesting...
...This Peter Parker is an Adonis in touch with his inner Woody Allen....
...Philip Reichmann insists that he and Mr Hauer "simply don't know" what they'll do next. mudlark@ft.com...
...CNOOC, the Chinese oil group, hired Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer Feld, the law firm, and Public Strategies, a lobbying firm, to get its message out during its bid for Unocal, its US rival....
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