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...It resigned as auditor of Sunac, Shimao and R&F in 2022. The Evergrande audits were carried out by PwC’s Hong Kong business, filings show....
...kaye.wiggins@ft.com...
...It follows a period in which the firm built up a significant business auditing Chinese real estate groups: PwC has also acted for others that have struggled, such as Country Garden, Sunac, R&F Properties...
...fines HSBC £57mn over deposit protection failings (FT) Silicon Valley investors build $300bn cash pile in start-up funding crunch (FT) Delivery Hero exits Deliveroo as takeaway demand wanes (FT) CD&R’...
...The proposal has been met with scepticism by other government officials, including the state senate president and the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker....
...Another cash offer for the entire stake worth R$10bn came from J&F Investimentos....
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...Yet at well over 20 songs once you count the bonus material, Don Juan feels cluttered; yet more collaborations, with Burna Boy and J Balvin, were announced, but it’s unclear when these will drop....
...He has fallen off the jazz radar of late, but remains busy behind the scenes in high-profile hip-hop and R&B — credits range from Nas and Mos Def to Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar....
...Merck, BMS, J&J, Novartis and some trade groups have launched a legal broadside against them, filing lawsuits in several different courts across the US....
...Joining Plotkin and Schnall in the new ownership group is the sports-focused investment fund Dyal HomeCourt Partners, a division of asset management firm Blue Owl, and rapper J Cole, a North Carolina native...
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...Net income increased slightly to a record R$2.2bn ($424mn), despite a R$1.2bn provision linked to a retail chain hit by an accounting scandal that affected several other lenders in Brazil....
...Additional reporting by Will Louch in London and Kaye Wiggins in Hong Kong...
...J. Christopher Flowers, the private equity investor known for reviving failed financial institutions, has warned that private capital’s push into insurance is coming with systemic risks....
...R: Breakfast champagne! And chestnuts, definitely, and building a fire. J: And then a big meal that lasts a day....
...“The odds that we wake up and see a J&J or Lilly do something big like buying Alnylam, Incyte or Vertex goes down from where it would have been,” said Stifel’s Opler....
Set in Middle-earth’s Second Age, Amazon’s new $1bn series delves deep into Tolkien’s mythical world
...And then there is the question of what CD&R’s equity is now worth....
What is it about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ that inspires such fannish devotion — and such huge investments?
...The Prince’s book Spare was produced with ghost writer J.R. Moehringer, who has also written biographies of Andre Agassi, Nike co-founder Phil Knight and bank robber Willie Sutton....
...CD&R raised some of the $4bn it used to purchase its own Belron stake from this market, though The Access Group deals did not tap it....
...First, productive factors like human capital, R&D and infrastructure....
...McColl’s was valued at about £200mn when it floated in 2014, but has since found it hard to compete with larger players such as Tesco, J Sainsbury and Co-op....
...“Reduced by Rick Rubin” was printed on the first album that he produced, LL Cool J’s Radio, a rap landmark from 1985....
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