Hints and tips:
...Ros Altmann, a pensions expert and the government’s older workers champion, believes the £30,000 cut off is too high....
...Other private-equity backed companies that recently filed or may soon do so include Aleris, an aluminium company; Bausch & Lomb, the eyecare company; Evertec, a payment processing company; Pinnacle Foods...
...“You might well say that there is a two-tier system of legal enforcement and that this is unfair,” said Ros Wright, chairman of the Fraud Advisory panel, which helps organisations and companies establish...
...In 2007, KKR bought UN Ro-Ro, a Turkish shipping company, for €910m ($1.15bn), while the property oriented Colony Capital bought control of Tamoil, a Libyan refiner, for €4bn and is developing a $2bn resort...
...Local executives have been motivated to collaborate in part because of the difficulty of finding economies of scale in a patchwork of countries, some of which are so small that Mr Garin jokes it would be...
...“Companies are looking to shore up their balance sheets, and investors want to see these kinds of public endorsements.”...
...It was difficult to do before, bec-ause they were in different worlds. Now they have to learn that. That will be the challenge for 2006.”...
...Whatever their exact role, these bankers - including names such as Alison Mass and Milton Berlinski of Goldman Sachs, Ros Stephenson and Peter Combe at Lehman Brothers, and Harold Bogle of Credit Suisse...
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