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...The all-cash deal is at a 40 per cent premium to the wealth manager’s closing price at the time of Flexpoint’s initial approach on 1 December, but a narrower 16.5 per cent premium to the closing price prior...
...Some say the sighting of Mr Buchheit at a country’s airport can be enough to cause its bond prices to quiver....
...Knight Frank saw a 32 per cent increase in buyer registration in the year to March, says Cooper. But sellers, deterred by the price drops, have frozen and few homes are coming to market....
...Nonetheless, Ms Cooper is defending revenue by raising prices and maintaining an operating margin close to 40 per cent....
...They allowed Price Waterhouse to merge with Coopers, and although the incompetence of the audit of Enron was manifest there was no need to destroy Arthur Andersen worldwide instead of just the part relevant...
...Many years ago, when we were very young, Price Waterhouse announced that it wanted to merge with Cooper Brothers....
...For now, though, the only auditors rotating are in their graves: Samuel Lowell Price, Edwin Waterhouse and William Cooper, the sober British accounting pioneers whose initials are on every Oscars envelope...
...When she applied to Coopers & Lybrand (which became PwC after its merger with Price Waterhouse), they did not mention her gender. So she joined the firm....
...“Alexander Hamilton, among others, thought it was a terrible idea,” Mr Cooper, said. “He happened to be right about that.”...
...EU members will be unanimous about the UK paying the price of treachery.” Maurice Lévy, chief executive, Publicis, Paris, France You’ve been a hindrance....
...This rapid increase in net cash outflows means DB pension schemes could be forced to sell equities at reduced prices in a market downturn to pay retirement benefits....
...As a young auditor at Price Waterhouse he worked on successive City mergers and saw two alien cultures collide as US investment banks snapped up London’s stockbroking and jobbing partnerships....
...At Price Waterhouse, he worked his way to become chairman and senior partner, where he spearheaded the most momentous shake-up of his career: merging with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998 – an unusual and tricky...
...Mr Brown, who started his career in 1982 at Price Waterhouse where he qualified as a chartered accountant, joins RBC after 21 years at JPMorgan Asset Management....
...Its only achievement will be to price vulnerable people out of justice.”...
...Foxtons was perhaps the most pervasive symbol of the unchecked swagger that fuelled Britain’s housing boom; the garish Mini Coopers and gel-haired estate agents were an omnipresent reminder that money was...
...Jonathan Dodd, of Waterhouse & Dodd galleries in New York and London, says: “We have gone from being a gallery dealing in important and interesting works by many little-known artists, to dealing in major...
...“The rule changes have gone too far and have given target company directors an excessively strong bargaining position,” said Amerjit Kalirai, partner at law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse....
...When European Ucits funds were launched in 1989, a Price Waterhouse partner – as PwC was then known – told a probing US newspaper that it would take a big effort to capitalise on their opportunities....
...● Feargal Dempsey (pictured), a veteran of Pioneer Investments and Barclays Global Investors, has joined the board of ETFGI LLP as a partner and legal counsel....
...Firms established in mid-19th century London by three men – Samuel Lowell Price, Edwin Waterhouse and William Cooper – put the P, W and C into what is now the world’s biggest accountant....
...the crispy-pancake maker’s private equity owner, had drawn interest in the Nordic unit from several potential bidders including Nestlé, of Switzerland and Orkla, the Norwegian consumer goods group, but a price...
...Having multiple suppliers can also help to keep prices low by introducing competition....
...He said: “This is a clear statement from Europe that intellectual property rights cannot be relied upon to fragment the market and charge different prices in different European Union countries for the same...
...In spite of the higher indicative bid price, shares in Laird closed down 13.7p to 177½p, valuing the equity at £465.5m....
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