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...The talks were about a bid that would be part-funded by the Issa brothers’ personal wealth rather than EG Group’s funds, the person said....
...“With Cfius it is not like you can pick up the book and know what you are doing,” said Mark Plotkin, a partner at Covington & Burling....
...They supply fuel to another 1,900. Both companies have substantial debt. Euro Garages has a £745m facility and EFR €655m....
...Stocks of oil held in tanks on behalf of a novel digital currency would eventually affect supplies in the global market, if they were big enough....
...At the fulcrum of it all are three brothers of Indian descent, the Guptas. The business family is accused of cultivating close relations with President Zuma with their own self-enrichment in mind....
...Producers have been hammered by a sharp decline in prices for the metal, triggered by a supply glut, alleged dumping on to world markets by China and declining raw material costs....
...A banner outside a factory owned by TAL, a Hong Kong company that makes high-end shirts for Charles Tyrwhitt and Brooks Brothers, says it is offering Rmb3,500 ($550) a month or more than twice the region...
...The largest drop came in the immediate aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008....
...Laurent Lacassagne, head of Chivas Brothers, the whisky business owned by France’s Pernod Ricard, sees similar marketing opportunities in the drinks industry....
...BITC is also encouraging organisations to take a broader view of sustainability, looking beyond the immediate impact of their activities to both the life cycles of products and to supply chains....
...A member of the UK’s Competition Commission from 2005 until this year, she is also currently a non-executive director of Affinity Water, a water supply company....
...it failed to repay $920m owed on October 31. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fa7918e4-28e1-11e2-9591-00144feabdc0.html Essar to plan $4.8bn debt refinance Essar Group, controlled by billionaire Indian brothers...
...Agricultural traders are seeking to boost profits by increasing scale and diversifying geographically at a time when securing supplies and market intelligence is crucial....
...The gap in property prices between London and the rest of the UK is accelerating, as a glut of foreign money in the capital drives up rents at the fastest rate since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008...
...The roadshow for financing the vessels was just about to present in September 2008, when Lehman Brothers, the US investment bank, went bankrupt....
...Founding brothers Greg and Niall Turley will remain with the group....
...This stark imbalance between supply and demand is motivating investors, to the extent that student housing is now classed by Knight Frank as a “key asset class”....
...The West End had dropped to second place in the rankings over the past two years as a result of falling rents in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse....
...The supply of prime sites is limited, which has fuelled growth in land prices....
...His knowledge of supply-chain management has proven especially useful....
...The writer is managing partner at Cadwyn Capital LLP, and a visiting professor at Cardiff Business School...
...Since he took the top job two years ago his team has won the coveted role of administrator of Lehman Brothers in Europe and the firm reported last year a record fee income in the UK of £2.25bn....
...Before joining CIMB, he was part of the Asian financials team at Lehman Brothers (HK)....
...As a result, assets fell from $16bn just before Lehman Brothers went bust to $11bn at the low. “That doesn’t sound so bad, but in that time we probably made $2bn of P&L and had gross inflows of $2bn....
...He was expelled from college after he persistently played truant to visit his brother in prison, and worked in a factory....
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