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...The $552.5mn funding is in the form of a secured loan to law firm Pogust Goodhead, and is the largest ever to a UK law firm in the nearly $16bn litigation funding market....
...The fund had raised $10mn in seed funding and is targeting a $100mn launch for its fund, according to two people involved....
...Qatar bets on India’s Ambani Turkey’s IPO renaissance Multi-manager hedge funds meet their maker Three decades ago, when star traders such as George Soros, Julian Robertson and Paul Tudor Jones were masters...
...It’s a question of particular importance to investors in Burford Capital, the litigation funding powerhouse that financed the claims....
...When Vienna embarked on redeveloping the brownfield site around the railway station, four of the buildings were earmarked in the master plan as co-housing units....
...It is home to the world darts and Masters snooker championships. And, throughout, it has regularly been on the brink of financial collapse....
...In that respect, the pugnacious spirit of the old CSFB might prove very useful to the new CSFB, after all. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...The threat of a slowdown has already rocked the junk bond market, a critical source of funding for buyouts....
...The junior staff joining H2O found Crastes was no aloof master of the universe....
...“Everybody [remarked on] the savage’s good breeding and the European’s impatient spirit,” wrote one socialite when Mai beat the literary critic Giuseppe Baretti at chess....
...According to Thompson’s calculations, Twitter has raised a total of $4.4bn in 19 different funding rounds since its creation in 2006....
...“The creative spirits. The underdogs. The resolute.”...
...(Nikkei Asia) News round-up Credit Suisse securitises yacht loans to oligarchs and tycoons (FT) US budget airline Frontier to buy rival Spirit for $6.6bn (FT) Landmark Credit Suisse money laundering...
...In an ominous move for international investors, China is to tighten rules for tech companies seeking foreign funding....
...US budget airline Frontier to buy rival Spirit US low-cost carrier Frontier has agreed to acquire rival Spirit for $6.6bn, including net debt, in what would be the first large airline merger since the industry...
...Other companies are taking advantage of starry-eyed investors and abundant funding....
...Since then the council’s enhanced regeneration master plan, which calls for a new business model and governance, has been the guiding framework....
...This is about desperation, not high spirits. David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research in Toronto says: “As the boomers head into retirement age, what do they need? Income....
...But this overlooks the role of guilds as reserves of community spirit and learning, which can only exist outside of government....
...So keeping spirits up this week has been a challenge. The costs, human and economic, of the coronavirus outbreak are mounting. Share prices have tumbled....
...It isn’t only the deadly pathogen, but also its financial fallout, that has caught the masters of the universe by surprise....
...These are not really separate logical and legal arguments being crafted by skilled professionals with the dedication of master shoemakers....
...“The more dire predictions on funding have not materialised, including in Chicago,” he says....
...So-called consensus trades turning sour have ruined the bonuses of many masters of the universe on Park Avenue....
...The masters of macro Stan Druckenmiller Stan Druckenmiller established his reputation by breaking the back of the British pound in 1992 with his mentor George Soros....
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