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...“We want Airbus to focus on producing aircraft,” Ben Walker, partner at TCI, told the Financial Times. “This looks like a politically motivated bailout.”...
Metals group had borrowed $1.3bn from Swiss bank’s clients to finance sprawling empire
Cooling commodity markets threaten Sanjeev Gupta’s battle to preserve his sprawling metals conglomerate
Industrialist given a three-month delay as lenders adopt a more consensual approach
Struggling metals group could pay less than 50 pence in the pound on outstanding loans
Metals tycoon appears in Liège as a London court begins preliminary hearing into winding-up petition
...Or, as Latham & Watkins partner David Walker put it: “There’s a lot of headwinds.”Global M&A fell 38 per cent to $1.3tn in the first half of the year, the lowest deal volume since the start of the pandemic...
...And The best gift I’ve received is a letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes that Kim Jones gave me....
...Additional reporting by Owen Walker...
...At Silky Oaks, that person is Juan Walker, a Kuku Yalanji man who founded his own outfit 12 years ago....
...Elise Stefanik, the Republican conference chair in the House, has already endorsed the former president, while Republicans on the oversight committee immediately indicated that they intend to hasten their...
Owner of UK steel assets says true figure was £500,000, after tax authority filed petitions to wind up four of its businesses
Metals tycoon’s lifeline offers hope to 3,000 workers in Britain
...By Daniel Thomas, Philip Georgiadis, Peter Campbell, Abby Wallace, Owen Walker, George Hammond, Sylvia Pfeifer and Jonathan Eley...
...Additional reporting by Owen Walker in London...
...Additional reporting by Neil Hume and Owen Walker...
The steel magnate has an uphill battle to refinance after Greensill’s collapse
Agreement over refinancing could pave the way for restructuring of Gupta’s business
...Simon Walker, TRA chair, said it provides “impartial recommendations to government, based on careful analysis of the available evidence....
Metals magnate pledges not to shut down any steelworks as legal pressure mounts
Swiss bank’s clients are owed $1.2bn by the metals magnate and lender says it has not been contacted about the plan
...Smart reads Conflict of interest Ford Foundation president Darren Walker has long advocated for workers’ rights....
...Considerably more fun is Sylvia Bishop’s The Midnight Thief (Scholastic, £6.99). This is an old-school (in every sense) yarn....
...Sylvia Carr and her mother have relocated to the wild countryside beyond Newcastle, and Sylvia bitterly misses her best friend....
...Gupta has won a three-month reprieve from attempts to shut down his companies in court, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Sylvia Pfeifer, Jim Pickard and Owen Walker report....
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