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...He subsequently built a reputation in financial markets for big, speculative trades on currencies, including a profitable bet against sterling ahead of Black Wednesday in 1992, when Britain exited the European...
...He built a reputation in financial markets for big, speculative trades on currencies, including a profitable bet against sterling ahead of Black Wednesday in 1992, when Britain exited the European exchange...
...Like Hungarian-born hedge fund trader George Soros, Lewis is known for betting against sterling and profiting from Britain’s exit from the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992....
...“Lawyers need to hone their leadership skills,” says Jami McKeon, chair of Morgan Lewis....
...Linklaters’ managing partner Paul Lewis acknowledged that higher inflation and pay pressure had increased costs but said that pressure had “slowed down somewhat”....
...Wall Street law firm Shearman & Sterling and rival Hogan Lovells have ended merger talks that would have created a legal powerhouse, saying that a deal was not in their interests....
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...Job moves Linklaters has hired veteran dealmaker George Casey, a global managing partner at Shearman & Sterling, as UK “magic circle” firms seek a stronger footing in the US....
...Morgan Lewis & Bockius O: 8; L: 7; I: 7; Total: 22The firm helped digital asset exchange Zipmex develop a restructuring plan, which was approved by the Singapore courts in March....
...LBG also struck new partnerships with Muller Rice, John Lewis, Google, and Budweiser....
...A tax exile, Lewis left school at 15 to work at his family’s café, developed a string of successful restaurants and made a fortune betting against the pound on Black Wednesday when sterling crashed out of...
...Sterling was up 0.8 per cent against the dollar in morning trading in Asia on Tuesday at $1.0773....
...Commended: Tom Trujillo Morgan, Lewis & BockiusO: 8; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 23The firm initially formed a workplace culture consulting service in 2017, which advises employers on issues beyond employment law...
...Dealmaking deterrents Japan’s problematic equity “cross-holdings” could hypothetically broker a $20bn takeover “for free”, the FT’s Leo Lewis explains. But the country is only ripe for M&A in theory....
...The cap was set at £118mn in sterling....
...share of UK gilts in their portfolios following the UK-EU trade agreement struck on Christmas Eve, after shying away from British bonds throughout the turbulent Brexit process over fears of sharp moves in sterling...
...He added: “We’re seeing really quality investment grade paper coming up for grabs . . . names like Heathrow, John Lewis, Gatwick, BT — solid fundamentals — to raise cash.”...
...Job moves Shearman & Sterling has elected its New York-based co-global managing partner and head of disputes Adam Hakki as senior partner, succeeding David Beveridge....
...Lewis was the fourth cabinet minister to resign from Johnson’s cabinet. Guy Opperman, pensions minister, and Helen Whately, a Treasury minister, also quit on Thursday....
...As Barnabas Reynolds, a pro-Brexit lawyer at Shearman & Sterling and the author of Restoring UK Law, frames it in a piece for The Telegraph “without more bold action these bills risk delivering the opposite...
...However, Lewis this year became chair of Haleon, the consumer health group spun off from GSK that Jope had attempted to buy....
...Unlike taxable trading accounts and self-invested personal pensions, Isa investors can’t hold currency other than sterling....
...Pound posts worst month since Brexit referendum Sterling has recorded its steepest monthly decline against the dollar since October 2016, falling 4.5 per cent in August to $1.16 amid a deteriorating outlook...
...And there’s a “daylight robbery” 2.99 per cent foreign exchange fee on every non-sterling transaction. And the concierge service can be hit and miss....
...Sterling’s “disconnection to rates pricing” was generating concerns that the pound “becomes truly unpredictable”, said Nomura currency strategist Jordan Rochester....
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