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May 8, 2024

Peter Mandelson’s advisory firm valued at £30mn in deal with ex-Obama aide

...The investment by the Messina Group, founded in 2013 by former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, values Mandelson’s firm Global Counsel at about £30mn, said people close to the transaction....

April 17, 2024

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Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

News in-depthPuig SA

Marc Puig, the beauty boss giving his family wealth instead of power

...The IPO of the 110-year-old company comes at a time when Europe’s biggest family-backed beauty groups are navigating succession planning....

May 2, 2024

News in-depthEnterprise software

The unstoppable rise of Fortnox: Swedish software group attracts short sellers

...At stake is the company’s market capitalisation which was $4.6bn on Tuesday, a 23 times multiple of forecast sales that has made it one of the world’s most highly valued software groups, more expensive on...

March 27, 2024

News in-depthBayer AG

Bill Anderson: the Texan wrestling with Bayer’s mountain of pain

...what was once one of the world’s largest chemical groups and the pride of corporate Germany, with 100,000 employees and a market value that peaked at €121bn....

March 8, 2024

Nadhim Zahawi

Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi appointed chair of The Very Group

...The Liverpool-based group owns the Very and Littlewoods brands....

May 13, 2024

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Live news: Indian equities decline after Tata Motors downgrade

Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi appointed chair of The Very Group

...The Liverpool-based group owns the Very and Littlewoods brands....

May 13, 2024

Investments

Directors’ Deals: Yu Group bosses ditch shares

...Yu Group has had an extraordinary run since the pandemic....

May 3, 2024

LexHelen Thomas

The Lex Newsletter: Big is still beautiful Premium

...Still, if you want proof that the bleating about London has gone too far, take a look at Wood Group....

April 17, 2024

Puig SA

Puig aims for top-of-the-range €14bn valuation at IPO

...Sales figures from the first quarter of the year showed a wide divergence in performance between top luxury groups, with those more orientated towards wealthy shoppers faring better....

April 29, 2024

Special ReportFTfm: Exchange Traded Funds

Women continue to lead the way in the ETF industry

...But the frankest account of why a women’s membership group was needed in the ETF industry — and why it helps to have men in the room — comes from Ross, an industry veteran who was behind the SPDR launch....

March 25, 2024

LexASML Holding NV

ASML’s poor quarter is not a good reason to fret about its future Premium

...This makes for uncomfortable reading, especially given the group’s strong share price run. Indeed, its stock fell about 6 per cent on Wednesday....

April 17, 2024

L'Occitane International SA

L’Occitane owner offers to take skincare group private at €6.5bn valuation

...“The cosmetics sector is undergoing profound changes, and our company has significantly transformed into a geographically balanced multi-brand group,” Geiger said in a statement....

April 29, 2024

Europe Express

A message from the IMF on how to fix the EU’s ‘limping’ single market Premium

...On Tuesday, prosecutors added a new probe into alleged ties between Orlen’s Swiss trading subsidiary and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah....

May 2, 2024

Letter

Letter: Europe wants Biden to lift the pause on LNG projects

...Craig Mackinlay MP Chair, Net Zero Scrutiny Group, House of Commons, London SW1, UK...

April 26, 2024

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

Royal Mail

Křetínský intensifies talks with Royal Mail owner about an improved bid

...Křetínský had made clear his intention not to break up IDS by separating the lossmaking Royal Mail from the group’s profitable European logistics business GLS, or touch the group’s pension scheme surplus...

May 10, 2024

LexJohn Wood Group PLC

Wood shows some companies may be better off private

...Few outside of the energy industry and Scotland would once have heard of Wood Group....

May 9, 2024

Moral Money

‘The whole institution is boiling’: Revolt inside a key climate target group Premium

...Blended capital flows fell to a 10-year low in 2022, according to the most recent estimates by research group Convergence....

April 12, 2024

News

Directors’ Deals: Dots director dashes for cash

...At the start of this year, Nanoco received the second payment worth $71.75mn and decided to return £30mn to shareholders through the tender offer, which was pitched at a 25 per cent premium to the share...

April 26, 2024

Oil & Gas industry

World’s most indebted oil group hits out at critics

...The company’s pool of investors for the bonds has dwindled, and much of the group’s longer dated paper remains firmly in distressed territory, below a widely recognised threshold of 70 cents on the dollar...

April 18, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

March 27, 2024

FT Magazine

The Opus Dei diaries

...It was started in 2020 by former members and recently expanded to the English-speaking world through a Reddit group, called Opus Dei Exposed. The group has hundreds of members....

March 16, 2024

ReviewFilm

Rustin film review — focus on a forgotten civil rights activist

...A bristling jazz score by Branford Marsalis helps blow away some of the dramatic dust. ★★★☆☆ In UK and US cinemas from November 3 and on Netflix from November 17...

November 2, 2023

Management consulting

Former Tory leader William Hague joins corporate intelligence group Hakluyt

...and private equity groups....

April 18, 2024

London Stock Exchange Group

LSE Group investors back doubling chief’s pay to US levels

...London Stock Exchange Group’s shareholders have backed a proposal to double the pay of its chief executive to a maximum possible £13.1mn, making David Schwimmer one of the top-paid FTSE 100 bosses....

April 25, 2024

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