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...The actor Robert Downey Jr created his own Instagram reel when she sent him samples to try. “He was so sweet. I’m friends with Robert and his wife Susan, but I didn’t ask him to do that,” she says....
...It claims Robert Downey Jr as a neighbour, but most folks would hardly know the estate is even there. Sprawling compounds are common in this billionaire’s playground some 100 miles east of Manhattan....
...Person to watch Robert Smith, the billionaire founder of Vista Equity Partners....
...CVC Capital Partners, Ardian and L Catterton have all had conversations with advisers about potential initial public offerings....
...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins, Robert Smith and Arash Massoudi, and the FT’s Tabby Kinder, broke the news on Wednesday night that the Big Four firm had resigned as their auditor because of concerns about governance....
...Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR Jefferies, Dudley Polymath 1,028: John Clune, Ireland Crossword...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier Espinoza in Brussels, James Fontanella-Khan, Ortenca Aliaj, Sujeet Indap, Eric Platt and Mark Vandevelde in New...
...Buyout groups want in, according to this just published piece by DD’s Kaye Wiggins....
...A sale could give shares in L Brands a much-needed lift....
...Tara Alhadeff from Permira told DD’s Kaye Wiggins it’s a bet on the “casualisation” of everyone’s wardrobes....
...In Brussels, regulators have suspended work on three proposed mergers, including Boeing’s acquisition of Embraer and the purchase of Chantiers de l’Atlantique by Fincantieri....
...K&L Gates has hired Yasho Lahiri as an asset management and investment funds partner in the New York office. He was previously at DLA Piper....
...Randy Clark joined K&L Gates from Moore & Van Allen as a Charlotte-based partner in the firm’s tax practice....
...L Brands’ billionaire founder Leslie Wexner, who was Epstein’s only known client for decades, is in talks about giving up his role as chief executive....
...Periwal was formerly at L&L Partners. Smart reads Clean as a whistle People in the business world can suffer from reputational blowbacks in the seconds it takes someone to google their name....
...K&L Gates has hired Steven Olenick as a corporate partner in the New York office. He joins the from Loeb & Loeb....
...K&L Gates has added David Owen as counsel to its asset management and investment funds practice. Owen joins from Allianz Global Investors....
...“Papa, j’ai rétréci l’empire.” That was the front-page headline of France’s left-leaning daily newspaper Libération last year, with a photograph of the culprit: Arnaud Lagardère (pictured below)....
...Loeb will be pleased with the ice cream sale but he’s yet to get Nestlé to sell its 23 per cent stake in the French cosmetics group L’Oréal. Things are already looking pretty for Nestlé shareholders....
...Mr Nadler said that both special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York had been made aware of the committee’s requests ahead of time....
...He was formerly a partner at K&L Gates. Weil Gotshal hired Jenny Doak as a tax partner in its London office. Doak joins from law firm Vinson & Elkins....
...Pigasse is a punk rock aficionado and self-styled enfant terrible in the Parisian finance scene, with clients including Carrefour, Sanofi, L’Oréal and Danone, as well as working with colleagues on sovereign...
...The Del’s founders, Elisha Babcock Jr and Hampton L Story, saw the potential in what is still one of California’s finest beaches....
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