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...And DS Smith isn’t alone....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...But that was at the height of the boom in special purpose acquisition companies. As DD has told you, things have soured significantly since then....
...Law firm Reed Smith has hired Christopher Jackson and Adam Longney as partners in its London aviation group. Both join from REN Legal....
...The former US attorney for the Southern District of New York made fighting insider trading his mission when he took office in 2009, at the height of the financial crisis....
...Back in 2013, McCabe sold a 50 per cent stake in the club for £1 to UTB LLC — a company controlled by Prince Abdullah, a member of the Saudi royal family....
...The saturnine Canadian is a ringer for Heathcliff, the passionate outsider who shakes up the established order in Wuthering Heights....
...raise $4.9m in its initial fundraising round include Nicola Miner, of Quotidian Corporation in San Francisco, John Goldman, philanthropist, Ercument Tokat from Centerview Partners in New York, and Ryan Smith...
...Investors’ attitudes to analysts at brokers and banks have frequently been tinged by cynicism over potential conflicts of interest, and the suspicion – at its height in the 1990s bull run and the dotcom...
...We think you can use them as a guide but they don’t necessarily represent risk at all,” says Mr Smith....
...Marrying Merrill’s vast US network of brokers with BofA’s nationwide retail and commercial bank was one of the main drivers of the lender’s decision to bid $50bn for Merrill at the height of the financial...
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