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...Additional reporting by Stephen Gandel in New York...
...“Younger talent doesn’t want to take one job and work for 40 years and get a measly buyout when they’re done,” said Allan Koltin, M&A consultant to accounting firms....
...Accounting industry consultant Allan Koltin said firms made decisions about where to focus limited resources based on the risks and rewards, and a more vigorous PCAOB had heightened risks that had long been...
...Stephen Allan, former chair and chief executive of WPP-owned MediaCom, is chair of Brainlabs....
...Trautwein has known the investment group for well over a decade and has a particularly close relationship with its chair Dirk Markus, people who know the two executives told DD’s Will Louch and the FT’s...
...“Private equity has cheque-writing privileges that a partnership doesn’t have,” said Allan Koltin, an accounting sector M&A adviser....
...Mark Allan, chief executive of FTSE 100 property group Landsec, told the Financial Times: “It’s less about the specifics of what HS2 will or won’t bring [to the economy]....
...The deal would have spanned authors ranging from EL James and Stephen King to George Orwell and F Scott Fitzgerald....
...Stephen Bush, Lucy Fisher and Miranda Green from our UK politics team will present a live recording of their Political Fix podcast with guest Michael Gove....
...Tesco has recruited City heavyweight Gerry Murphy as its next chair to replace John Allan, who stepped down this year amid misconduct allegations....
...Blackstone’s leaders Stephen Schwarzman and Jonathan Gray have been tantalised by the opportunity to sell Blackstone products to “retail” investors with almost no exposure to private markets....
...Drafted by general counsel Markus Diethelm — who had joined from UBS in June — it was delivered on Saturday evening and contained a number of reasons for why the planned transaction was unacceptable....
...It also unlocked a big windfall for the firm’s top ranks, the FT’s Stephen Foley revealed late on Friday, thanks to a $1.3bn debt deal with Apollo....
...The entry into America was part of a dealmaking spree for furnishing world domination by Steinhoff’s former chief executive Markus Jooste, who also bought the UK’s Poundland among other international assets...
...Allan Monks, UK economist at JPMorgan, said this was alarming and would prompt the BoE to raise interest rates further....
...“Three words: off the chart,” said Allan Koltin, a Chicago-based consultant who is the most prolific deal adviser to mid-market accounting firms....
...Dame Elan Closs Stephens becomes acting chair at the BBC....
...The Ivanishvili case is also an early challenge for Credit Suisse’s recently installed general counsel Markus Diethelm....
...My phone, stuffed into my bra, is recording: Me: “I’m not sure about this, Stephen.” Blackwood: “You’re OK.” Me: “You think I’m OK?...
...Stephen Mills, a former political adviser to prime ministers David Lange and Helen Clark, said Ardern had not faced internal pressure to stand down....
...Blackstone gets a reality check Blackstone has raised $183bn in new assets this year, a fact chief executive Stephen Schwarzman called an “out of body experience” at an investor conference last week....
...today’s newsletter: The rush to withdraw from Blackstone’s property fund Wirecard on trial Noel Quinn and Axel Lehmann talk to the FT Blackstone’s real estate crown jewel loses its shine Blackstone’s Stephen...
...The case against Wirecard’s Markus Braun In March 2020, Wirecard’s legal head George-Alexander Trümper made a cheeky wager that the company’s boss Markus Braun and other top executives would go through...
...Blackstone chief dismisses concerns over $69bn real estate fund Chief executive Stephen Schwarzman has spoken out for the first time since the investment group restricted withdrawals from the Blackstone...
...As Stephen King explains in Danse Macabre, his 1981 treatise on the genre, “we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”...
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