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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Here is Shelley Simpson, president of the trucking company JB Hunt, commenting on a 7 per cent year over year decline in revenue in the first quarter: We’re in a challenging freight environment where there...
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Stephanie Biggs as a partner in London, where she will co-lead the firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory team. She joins from Travers Smith....
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...The Midlands market town, which sits in a bend of the river Severn near Shropshire’s border with Wales, has won a £45,000 government grant to encourage consumers back on to the high street after the pandemic...
...Job moves Rothschild & Co has appointed Tim Eastwood to lead a new wealth management team across the English Midlands, based in Birmingham....
...As a result, the prospects for a V-shaped recovery have brightened....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Russell Light as a partner at its tax practice. He joins the New York office from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P Johnson, Berwickshire Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson...
...And a decision on social care funding, which could also put upward pressure on taxes, is also expected to be parked for the time being....
...Whilst we have a BUY rating on the name, it is hard to see how this is not an obvious and relatively more significant event for HSBC given the outperformance of the name YTD (-23% v SX7P down 38%; LLOY down...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...The other is “ongoing support”, part of the overall regulatory and funding framework across the sector, which is “blended” into the rating in general....
...The Financial Times verified Chinese users’ findings and found with its own examination that Redcore was using components from the v. 49 version of Google Chrome....
...Airbnb, Uber and other technology innovators have avoided the cost and scrutiny of public ownership thanks to a surge in the availability of private funding....
...Similarly, in 2016, BCBG received $54m from an investment firm, Allerton Funding....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...In Madden v Midland Funding, a woman who did not pay her Bank of America credit card bill won her claim that a credit collection agency had no right to levy a 27 per cent interest rate on her debt, because...
...Blue Origin — a private company funded by Mr Bezos, the founder of Amazon — has not needed to seek outside funding....
...Here is an opinion summary from law firm Simpson Thacher describing how the court judged predicted beta in a 2010 appraisal case, ” Global GT lp v. Golden Telecom”....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...Discussions continued throughout the day among Goldman Sachs, Morgan Lewis and Simpson Thacher and other representatives of the Silver Lake/Warburg Pincus Consortium to resolve remaining open issues, including...
...And which is the home of the developer of 2013’s best-selling video game, Grand Theft Auto V? The answer is not London....
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