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...Challenging Kirkland’s turf in London won’t be easy for Paul Weiss and the recent hire of its star lawyer Membrillera will probably boost its relationship with US investment giant KKR....
...He said the auto and health sectors were areas where regulators could still move to clamp down on emerging dominant positions and that these were where “the new turf wars are going to be....
...In today’s newsletter: General Atlantic steps on Blackstone’s toes Barry McCarthy’s $168mn dangling carrot Mobileye fails to steer the broader IPO market General Atlantic encroaches on Blackstone’s turf...
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...But why did Alphawave pick London to list rather than its home turf of Toronto, or tech-heavy New York?...
...Beating an entrenched rival in tech by fighting on its home turf is usually a losing proposition....
...“There is a risk that all of this gets bogged down because of a multiplicity of objectives and a turf battle over who gets jurisdiction of a particular policy tool,” says Nicholas Levy, a competition partner...
...Centerview, which launched just over a decade ago, has emerged as a rival to Lazard in the US and will immediately challenge it on its home turf....
...IWG is taking WeWork’s turf There is little love lost between WeWork, the troubled co-working company that flew too close to Masayoshi Son, and IWG, its older, larger, less name-checked rival....
...Apple, Amazon and Google have formed a rare alliance to improve smart home devices, in an effort to avoid a turf war that limits the market for gadgets powered by Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant....
...They are also doing more sharing with each other — Apple, Amazon and Google have teamed up on standards for the smart home, in an attempt to avoid a turf war over voice assistants, like Siri and Alexa....
...How successful quants will prove in fields far from their home turf remains murky....
...The existing deals could pave the way for Facebook to becoming a traditional music video destination, according to some music executives — a leap into YouTube’s turf....
...As they start to feel cramped in their original markets, the biggest internet companies are also starting to move on to each other’s turf....
...Nomura Holdings did; it spent years trying to boost growth by taking on international rivals on their home turf. Some employees prospered from this, but shareholders did not....
...Lord Coe, who led London’s 2012 Olympics bid, plans to use a war chest of “hundreds of millions” of pounds to build a sports agency to take on the industry’s leading companies on their own turf....
Drugmakers unsettled as large tech groups turn to healthcare
...“That was a test fair, but we soon realised there was no room to grow,” says Nick Korniloff, a director and partner of Art Miami LLC, which runs the stalwart fair Art Miami....
...Despite an incredible seven of Germany’s 14 shots ending up in the back of the net, there was little gloating at having delivered a stunning 7-1 thrashing to Brazil, tournament favourites, on their home turf...
...Turf battles were a feature of the TMT team for many years, according to people familiar with the matter....
...The holdout tax The actual details of the proposal — see the FT’s take on it last week, or the Argentine press a bit earlier — would have restructured holders turf over about 20 per cent of their coupon...
...As part of its push for greater independence on its home turf in the US, Vevo this year launched a 24-hour digital channel featuring a schedule of music video premieres, live concerts and music-themed original...
...Given such high stakes, questions are being asked about why CEZ decided to turf Areva out before the tender process is concluded some time in 2013....
...However, analysts at Bernstein Research said recently that profit margins were shrinking in the country due to a combination of local companies stepping up efforts to protect their turf and the expense of...
...Not every cable company has embraced the initiative, however, and turf wars are breaking out over fragmented rights. The result is slow consumer adoption....
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