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...GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp Design Studio Designer and hotelier Kit Kemp’s first collaboration with British fabric and wallpaper house GP & J Baker transmutes her eclectic style into colour-saturated prints...
...Baker McKenzie has hired Eric Schwartzman as a partner in San Francisco. Schwartzman, who joins from Latham & Watkins, will be head of private equity in California....
...Despite scandals at Carillion, Patisserie Valerie, NMC Health, Thomas Cook, Eddie Stobart, Ted Baker and other companies, the UK has dropped audit reform from its next legislative programme....
...“More and more companies are turning away from the dirty barrels and Venezuelan crude is among the dirtiest,” said Valérie Marcel, an energy expert at Chatham House in London....
...Steve Baker, a Tory MP, tweeted: “This is a farce.”...
...Grant Thornton is under investigation for its audit of the failed bakery chain Patisserie Valerie for the 2015-2017 financial years....
...matthew.vincent@ft.com Ted Baker: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...Finnish Ecomodernists Take Aanstoot Founder and Chair, Swedish Ecomodernist Society Adam Blazowski FOTA4Climate, Poland Pavel Gajda Institute of Sustainable Energy, Poland Marc Deffrennes weCARE Valerie...
...The administrators of collapsed bakery chain Patisserie Valerie have sold off another slice of the business with the disposal of its Baker & Spice bread cafés to independent coffee chain Department of Coffee...
...RSM was called Baker Tilly before it acquired the trading subsidiaries of RSM Tenon in 2013....
...He lent Patisserie Holdings, the owner of the Patisserie Valerie, Philpotts and Baker & Spice chains, a net £10m shortly after it revealed an accounting scandal that ultimately led to its demise, and another...
...He lent Patisserie Holdings, the owner of the Patisserie Valerie, Philpotts and Baker & Spice chains, a net £10m shortly after it revealed the accounting scandal that ultimately led to its demise, and another...
...The Patisserie Valerie unit was sold to Causeway Capital for £8m, of which £3m is deferred, with Baker & Space sold to the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs for £2.5m and Philpotts sold to A F Blakemore...
...Two other chains in the Patisserie Holdings group, Philpotts and Baker & Spice, were sold to other buyers....
...KPMG, joint administrators to Patisserie Valerie, said a decision on Baker & Spice, another brand in the group, would be made in due course. Patisserie Valerie was founded in 1926....
...For a baker, 3am is the middle of the working day. So it was perhaps appropriate that the deal to “save” bankrupt cake maker Patisserie Valerie came at 3am on Thursday morning....
...Mr Scaife said that Causeway was the right owner for Patisserie Valerie because it already had experience in cafés through its stake in BB’s Bakers + Baristas, a UK and Irish coffee chain....
...On Sunday Sports Direct wrote to the Patisserie Valerie administrators, KPMG, complaining of lacking the information required to continue bidding for the group and its subsidiaries which include the Baker...
...Baker McKenzie has hired Andrew Sagor to co-lead the firm’s leveraged finance practice in New York. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...He had been preparing an initial public offering with a consortium of international banks and his accounts had been fully audited by Baker Tilly....
...(FT) Job moves Law firm Baker Botts has named John Martin as its managing partner....
...He joins from Baker McKenzie. Ropes & Gray, a law firm, has hired Carolyn Vardi as a partner. She joins from White & Case....
...Baker McKenzie, a law firm, has hired Peter Lu as a partner and head of the China group in London. He joins from White & Case....
...Valerie Hopkins has more....
...Robert Wann Jr has been hired by law firm Baker Botts as a partner in its corporate practice in New York. Wann joins from White & Case....
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