Hints and tips:
...Challenging Kirkland’s turf in London won’t be easy for Paul Weiss and the recent hire of its star lawyer Membrillera will probably boost its relationship with US investment giant KKR....
...How successful quants will prove in fields far from their home turf remains murky....
...Lord Coe, who led London’s 2012 Olympics bid, plans to use a war chest of “hundreds of millions” of pounds to build a sports agency to take on the industry’s leading companies on their own turf....
...Turf battles were a feature of the TMT team for many years, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Clive Cookson Sport The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup, by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, Simon & Schuster, RRP£18.99 /$24.95 An account of how Qatar won the right to host the football...
...Fulham will be in very good hands with Shahid, whose success in business and passion for sport is very evident.”...
...The 6ft 3in former captain of his college lacrosse team, who has a penchant for speaking in sports metaphors, was previously the top ad executive at Google....
...Not every cable company has embraced the initiative, however, and turf wars are breaking out over fragmented rights. The result is slow consumer adoption....
...At the same time as the Microsoft talks were foundering, he chaired Northwest Airlines and steered it into the arms of Delta for $2.6bn....
...VW has a big presence in Brazil and China, but lacks significant market share in India or Japan, Toyota’s home turf and a notoriously difficult market for foreign carmakers to crack....
...Although Ocular’s main manufacturing plant is in China, Hicks is not really straying from his home turf....
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