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...Alvaro Estevez will also join JPM from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as head of the Emea multinational corporations team....
...Swiss drugmaker Roche has named Thomas Schinecker as head of its diagnostics business, replacing Roland Diggelmann, who left the role last August....
...“Manipulating borrowers and coercing them into paying for phoney appraisals is simply wrong,” said Roland Tellis, head of the class-action group at Baron & Budd in Los Angeles....
...at the bat He was once a high-flying banker at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch....
...“The macroeconomic conditions are not good,” said Hitoshi Kaise, principal at Roland Berger. “If the stronger yen accelerates due to the earthquake, the impact may last longer.”...
...However, investors remain pessimistic about shares as illustrated by 15 straight weeks of equity fund outflows, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data....
...Was it your idea to send PR man Roland Rudd out costumed as mascot Eugene the Euro? Rudd (resentfully): Stuart said: “Want the knighthood? Wear the suit.”...
...However, the big banks active in debt capital markets, including JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, did not take part in the financing for any of the auction bidders....
...Macro events should not negate long-term investment decisions, says Roland Khounlivong, head of dealing at British online trader GoldMoney....
...But AstraZeneca had its own Svengali in the form of Roland Rudd, founder of Brunswick’s arch-rival, Finsbury. Mr Rudd was to be a leading figure in what company insiders dubbed the “Defence Committee”....
...“Since the West Coast debacle, investors are finding it hard to believe in the rail story,” says Mark Manduca, transport analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London....
...Previously, he was senior consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, senior equity analyst for the technology sector at Merrill Lynch London, senior equity analyst for the capital goods sector at...
...Dyas also says the sculpted dresses of Roland Mouret have proved a hit....
...Wachovia Securities and Merrill Lynch were Triarc’s financial advisers, and JPMorgan and Greenhill advised Wendy’s....
...The Germany1 venture might come up trumps with its management team, which includes Thomas Middelhoff, chief executive of Arcandor and formerly of Bertelsmann, and Roland Berger, a well-known consultant and...
...JPMorgan Cazenove for British Energy and Merrill Lynch for EDF worked hard to create an offer that would win him over, and the terms of the CVR were sweetened to raise the maximum possible payout....
...Roland Bellegarde, head of European equity markets, says: “We are adapting to the competitive environment. I am not complacent or non-reactive.” The numbers seem to show this is working....
...While competitors such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch have been slowly developing a local presence, Lehman has been weighing the risks of a return....
...And that was always in the First District,” says Roland Klemm, a former Merrill Lynch executive who is now a financial consultant....
...BMW edged only fractionally higher to €42.72 in spite of news that the German car maker had been upgraded by Merrill Lynch from a “neutral” to a “buy” rating with a €50 target....
...Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Barclays Capital have put together the financing package for its latest and largest deal, understood to be for €9.9bn (£6.8bn)....
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