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...“All these touch points are opportunities,” she says. “That’s the purpose of us being in this business, I think....
...Damac, founded in 1982 and known for its focus on luxury residences and hotels having developed more than 75 towers including the Paramount in Dubai, did not rule out repurposing some of the office space...
...(Might free or subsidised hotel stays catch on to get staff back at their desks?)...
...The fact that it has occurred, Japan-focused investors say, could point to greater market confidence that companies can no longer afford to be complacent....
...in Tel Aviv into The Jaffa Hotel & Residences, designed by John Pawson and Rami Gil....
...The group sees this as being a crucial selling point for its investment strategies....
...Given the still-big chunk of Microsoft shares sitting in the trust’s books, perhaps low-tech is the point?...
...Vivion has an investment property portfolio it values at €3.7bn split between Germany and the UK, where it owns a portfolio of hotels up and down the country....
...At some point, she began discussing her case with America’s most prominent #MeToo lawyer....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...negotiating sales of multimillion-pound properties as chair of Sotheby’s International Realty France-Monaco, he is likely to be adding a line to his eponymous clothing brand, keeping an eye on his boutique hotel...
...He acquired the catalogue of photographer Terry O’Neill to better exploit well-known images that were at that point sitting gathering dust in manila envelopes....
...Case in point: Elliott’s 2018 victory at hotel and restaurant multinational Whitbread, when the activist used an — albeit uncharacteristic — gentle approach to get its way and spin off the group’s Costa...
...By the end of March, Citadel Securities had set up a quarantined office in the ballroom of the Four Seasons hotel in Palm Beach, Florida in response to the crisis....
...Early investors in Spacs, which tend to be hedge funds, can ask to redeem their shares at the $10 purchase price at any point before a deal with a target is finalised....
...Marriott president and chief executive Arne Sorenson is stepping back from the daily running of the hotel group as he undergoes treatment for pancreatic cancer. More here....
...Dabice points out that gentrification has more serious effects than making it harder for indie bands to live cheaply....
...When Expedia boss Peter Kern dialled into an earnings call last May, hotels were closed, flights were grounded and the new chief executive of the world’s biggest travel agency had just asked Wall Street...
...anti-corruption questions over Deutsche Bank arm deal (FT) Sberbank’s tech ambitions hit by clashes with Mail.ru (FT) Revlon staves off bankruptcy after clinching last-minute debt deal (FT) Daniel Loeb’s Third Point...
...Smart reads When in Rome Airbnb, an American start-up, operates in China the same way as many western hotel chains with outposts in the region — by sharing its guests’ data with the Communist party....
...Get in touch: Due.Diligence@FT.com KKR makes a big bet on insurance At this point, using the term “private equity group” to describe a financial services company like KKR or Apollo Global Management is...
...Verisure priced its new bond deal, which was led by JPMorgan, at an annual interest rate of 5 percentage points over a floating-rate benchmark....
...Investors have homed in on SoftBank’s Vision Fund and its bets on cash-burning start-ups such as the food delivery company DoorDash and Indian hospitality group Oyo Hotels....
...Just a few miles from the Tiergarten hotel where Black spoke, German soldiers are reportedly preparing to build a 1,000 bed hospital, which the government has hastily ordered built to care for the city’s...
...Its share price has risen 60 per cent since Third Point’s campaign was revealed in April 2019....
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