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...Kirkland is the pre-eminent restructuring law firm in America, particularly when it comes to private equity blow-ups....
...Amos Hochstein, the state department official co-ordinating much of Biden’s energy strategy, told the Financial Times that wasn’t good enough....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...The logic of BP’s near 20 per cent stake in Russia’s Rosneft is becoming less clear, Lex argues....
...Aker BP’s current liquidity headroom of ~$3.7bn compares to Lundin’s $1.3bn, whilst we forecast Aker BP’s net debt/EBITDA to remain below 2.0x even in 2020....
...for parts of corporate America....
...Negative rates are not going to happen in America in GREED & fear’s view....
...But underlying operating margin was up 80 bps to 18.6 per cent, driven by increased gross margin and further reduced overheads....
...“You can’t move without running into a shared office space, a food market or a brewery,” observes Chuck Sullivan, co-founder of Something Independent, an events and content company....
...Haas will serve as the global co-chair of the firm’s real estate practice....
...Mr Novak agreed that the world’s two largest oil producers had to work together, and said: “We assume that co-operation between our countries is long-term.”...
...Warren Estey will leave his role as co-head of US equity capital markets to become the bank’s head of Americas natural resources....
...America’s celebrated First Amendment jurisprudence is relatively young. It was only in 1964, in Times v....
...Bank of America has hired Ahmad Masud as co-head of Americas Power investment banking....
...(CNN) Campaign commentary The terrifying idea that Trump is the GOP nominee (Jamelle Bouie, Slate) Trump v Clinton: game on (Frank Rich, NYMag) Be careful what you wish for, Democrats (Howard Fineman...
...Like many innovators, he furthers collaboration — he co-founded the collective e-studio Luanda, which represented Angola at last year’s Venice Biennale....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...Ms Kaplan’s work is recognised in the Social Responsibility rankings of this year’s FT North America Innovative Lawyers report....
.... ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: BP should pay up for the suffering it has caused / From Mr William V Slade...
...Laurence Olivier’s Richard III (1955), spurning or turning topsy-turvy the picture-book pageantry of his Henry V, is a designer maelstrom of evil....
...TNK-BP was established in 2003 as a 50:50 joint venture between BP and a group of Russian investors....
...President Barack Obama’s early rhetoric that the spill was “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced” was absurdly overblown, but BP had to repair the damage and make expensive amends....
...The following year, a libel victory in a Supreme Court case, Times v Sullivan, established that the First Amendment protected newspapers from libel claims by public officials unless they could prove “actual...
...Selections by Martin Wolf … BUSINESS The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan, Twelve, RRP$26.99 Fisman and Sullivan lead us through the organisational structure that...
...” … Joseph Shenker, chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell Joseph Shenker has been described as the archetypal Wall Street lawyer: he presides over one of the most respected firms in the US....
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