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...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...US computer company began trialling its version of the technology with a small number of companies late last year....
...Schiller joins from Goldman, where he was a Frankfurt based managing partner and also the bank’s global co-head of chemicals. He will remain based in Frankfurt....
...In perhaps the most notorious instance, oil driller Kerr-McGee separated its chemicals unit to form Tronox in 2004....
...Ecolab said the tie-up would result in $1.5bn in revenue from emerging markets, which, Mr Baker said, offered “terrific potential for the combined companies”....
...This explains the recent flurry of transactions involving companies that cut grime....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...In one key precedent, Basic Inc v....
...In a friend-of-the-court brief, the Investment Company Institute, the national association of US investment companies, urged the court to uphold the Gartenberg standard....
...a sustainable V-shaped recovery rather than entering a bumpy or W-shaped rebound....
...Many of the vineyards in this V-shaped morsel of northern Hérault are on the gravelly limestone rubble in which so many of France’s vines feel comfortable....
...Last month, it said it would sell its 29 per cent stake in cleaning services provider Ecolab, which would raise $2bn....
...A Delaware judge has ordered Apollo Management and Hexion, a speciality chemicals company owned by Apollo, to use its best efforts to close an agreed $6.5bn takeover of Huntsman despite a slump in the chemicals...
...It is the final investment left from the private equity group’s £300m Fund V, which it raised in 1993....
...Liveris; CEO, The Dow Chemical Company, USA John A....
...Together with a separate agreement to acquire Sovereign Specialty Chemicals, a US adhesives maker, for about $575m, the agreement boosts the German group's presence in the US following several acquisitions...
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