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...Additional reporting by Ian Smith and Cynthia O’Murchu in London...
...The company at the centre of René Benko’s property empire more than doubled its debt in the first nine months of the year, indicating the scale of the liquidity problems facing the group as it tried to stave...
...A Signa Group company transferred more than €300mn to two entities linked to its Austrian founder René Benko before the property giant’s collapse, according to financial documents reviewed by the FT....
...Cambridge Retail is owned by René Benko’s Signa Group in Austria and Tiang Chirathivat’s Central Group in Thailand, which together bought the department store portfolio from the billionaire Weston family...
...Artworks include those by Tacita Dean and Paul Smith, but identities will be revealed only once sales have been finalised....
...German insurers, including Munich Re and Allianz, have amassed more than €3bn of exposure to the struggling property empire owned by real estate billionaire René Benko, according to documents reviewed by...
...revealed Chapter 11 bankruptcy gets its day in court Toyota ushers a corporate unwinding boom Benko’s byzantine business is left exposed Administrators to Signa Holding, the company at the centre of René...
...And a probe to start: Austria’s anti-corruption prosecutors have opened an investigation into property mogul René Benko for allegedly defrauding a bank....
...for £5.1bn (Bloomberg) Chelsea Football Club owner made £650mn loss after new player splurge (FT) Signa tycoon René Benko files for personal insolvency (FT) Warner kicks off bidding war for French music...
...“Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair was the first movie that I ever designed clothes for....
...A key part of Noma’s global success lies in the fermentation process, on which the restaurant’s star chef René Redzepi co-authored a bestselling book in 2018....
...Signa has appointed German turnaround specialist Arndt Geiwitz as its new chair after shareholders rebelled against founder René Benko....
...“He is absolutely not what you would expect from a traditional co-operative,” said René Hooft Graafland, a former chief financial officer at Heineken who until this year was a director at FrieslandCampina...
...The FT’s Harry Dempsey and DD’s Rob Smith have dug into the scandal....
...She joins from Travers Smith. Goodwin has announced 14 new partners including five in its private equity practice....
...“When I look at what we’ve achieved in the past year, I really see the validation of the strategy that we put in place three or four years ago coming to life,” chief executive Rene Haas told the Financial...
...In the MCA, Kiki Smith’s series of five large Jacquard tapestries hang in a dimly lit room....
...Lilah Raptopoulos In Denmark, most roads lead back to René Redzepi of Noma. One of the big offenders seems to be René Redzepi himself. The best chef in the world, this huge name....
...What would Adam Smith say?...
...But it was a classic Surrealist painting — René Magritte’s “A la rencontre du plaisir” (1962) — that topped the week, selling for £16.5m (£18.9m with fees, est £8m-£12m, auction house guarantee)....
...But there is one name that stands above all others when it comes to menswear illustrations: René Gruau, who defined the look of fashion reportage from the late 1930s, working with Dior, Lanvin and Balenciaga...
...René Brülhart, a Swiss lawyer and head of the Vatican’s financial regulator is to leave his post just weeks after Holy See police raided the Financial Information Authority’s offices as part of a probe into...
...Now, as chief executive Tad Smith said in a statement, Sotheby’s can operate “in a more flexible private environment”....
...Mr Hoogers, who was previously chief of Zilveren Kruis, the Dutch health insurance company, succeeds René van de Kieft who is leaving MN....
...No, this isn’t the title of a newly found René Magritte painting....
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