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...UBS’s Blair Effron founded Centerview Partners in 2006 with Wall Street veteran Robert Pruzan: it ranked third for M&A advisory fees in the first quarter of last year....
...Nye served in the Carter and Clinton administrations....
...UBS has named Jeff Hinton as global co-head of M&A. He joined last year from Barclays as co-head of M&A for the Americas....
...Fifty-five years later, his son Robert Kennedy Jr is a leading American conspiracy theorist challenging Joe Biden for the presidency. RFK Sr might have gone on to win the White House....
...I’m still ambivalent about turning 40, but I’d do it all over again for a two-star dinner in Ilimanaq....
...Absolutely worth reading to the end, and kudos to journalist Robert Draper, who must surely be writing a book on the topic....
...Our top-line question every month is the old saw that Ronald Reagan used to beat Jimmy Carter in 1980: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”...
...“People think that I’m very tough,” says interior designer Robert Stilin from his New York office....
...As we leafed through the book, a framed portrait of Romolo Bulla Sr watched over us sternly, high up on the wall. Romolo Sr was, by all accounts, a difficult man....
...Graydon Carter is the founder and co-editor of Air Mail....
...Robert Morgenthau, then midway through a 35-year stint as the city’s lead criminal prosecutor, was on television constantly....
...“I’m here on the edge of metamorphosis.” So reads the epigraph — borrowed from the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire — to Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September....
...In today’s newsletter: M&A tries to chart a US comeback Charlie Munger’s bet on Alibaba The rise and fall of a Chinese aluminium empire Is M&A back in the US?...
...So they ended President Carter's career. And they ended President Bush Sr.'s career. Few things terrify an elected official of either party more than spiking retail pump prices....
...His name was Vern Underwood Sr, and I’m on the phone with his son. “You’ve given me a tough assignment,” Vern Underwood Jr says when I ask how Americans originally bought in. Underwood Jr is now 83....
...Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...
...He’s not Carter cheerfully embracing post-presidency house chores....
...Their friends think I’m cool, but not my kids.”...
...“For West Virginians,” he says, “It’s: ‘My great-granddaddy was a coal miner; my granddaddy was a coal miner; my daddy was a coal miner; I’m gonna be a coal miner; my son will be a coal miner.’...
...He’s made this money and I’m very worried about looking anti-aspiration, anti-people making money from sales.”...
...As for who’s in charge, Sard Verbinnen’s chair George Sard will join FGH’s Roland Rudd and Carter Eskew as co-chairs, while FGH’s chief executive Alexander Geiser will remain in the top job....
...Carter....
...Gilmore, based in New York, previously worked at Active Partners, while Pease, based in London, was an M&A banker at Jefferies....
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...I’m optimistic, though....
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