Hints and tips:
...I’m quizzing the by-now utterly horrified manager of speciality cycling store Sigma Sports, outfitters to top athletes and enthusiasts, about pro cycling kit....
...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....
...Deutsche Bank has hired Oliver Ives as a managing director of UK M&A. He joins from Ondra Partners....
...Brian M. Lutz and Michael J. Kahn of the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are the attorneys for Wirecard and its executives in the suit....
...“I’m conscious of not wanting to seem tone-deaf,” she says. “Some things will inevitably be put on the back seat a bit and lose a bit of momentum.”...
...Law firms said the fines will spur companies to perform more stringent due diligence of data assets during M&A transactions....
...Another person close to the process says that even his advisers had little sway: “American investment bankers know how to do American M&A, but he [Mr Wu] did it in his own style.”...
...Arne Sorenson, the chief executive of Marriott, explained why he had returned for Starwood despite not being interested initially....
...More recently, under the leadership of Arne Sorenson, its chief executive, Marriott has created new brands skewed towards more stylish consumers....
...“I’m hoping that what’s happening in the media is posturing by both parties and doesn’t reflect where either party thinks a deal will end up.”...
...“I’m hopeful but, boy, I wouldn’t put me down as optimistic.”...
...“Instead of looking at who’s electable, I’m looking at who’s the best person,” Barb Heki tells me as we discuss politics over breakfast in a bakery just outside of Des Moines, Iowa....
...“I’m perfectly happy with my dated car,” says Mr Stoltz....
...Wolfgang Brendel barked lustily as Prince Altair, and Garrett Sorenson piped sweetly as his son, Da-Ud. Perhaps in a different production . . . Tel +1 212 362 6000...
...“Even now, I can see I’m slow at it, the answering back and all that,” she says ruefully....
...“I’m often asked, ‘How long can this stage of the business cycle last?’” Arne Sorenson, chief financial officer, said on Thursday....
...Robert Sorenson Jim O’Neill: Only indirectly via the performance of the economies. I suspect that stock markets are good predictors of economic growth and rather better at it than vice versa....
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