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...That’s right, Kenny Smith shoved Shaquille O’Neal into a Christmas tree. Again. Don’t ask why it’s custom, who cares, just enjoy it. Or in the words of the NBA, “The fellas are in the holiday spirit.”...
...Minority stakeholders can turn to funds preapproved by professional leagues for quick sales — as was the case for basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, who sold his small position in the Kings last year to...
...He joins from Travers Smith. Goodwin has hired Hugh O’Sullivan as a partner in its private equity practice. He joins the firm’s London office from Kirkland & Ellis....
...The leading men were everyman-handsome, not too pretty: Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Ford, Robert Ryan, John Garfield, Edmond O’Brien, Burt Lancaster....
...We saw the biggest Spac deal on record, the most complex Spac deal to date and a wave of launches from some unexpected figures — shout-out to basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal and baseball legend Billy...
...Crossword 13,365: Michael Eve, Rye, England; Christopher Barrat, London; Suzanna Anslow, Surrey, England Polymath 1,055: Roger Forster, Middlesex, England Crossword 16,360: JB Cowperthwait, Florida; Neal...
...King & Spalding has added Stephen O’Neal as a partner to its construction disputes and international arbitration practice in San Francisco. O’Neal joins from Jones Day....
...Former NBA basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, who joined Papa John’s board in March, also agreed to become its newest brand ambassador and invest in nine Papa John’s restaurants in the Atlanta area....
...John Utendahl, a leading African-American investment banker, was soon introducing him to Wall Street peers including Stan O’Neal, later chief executive of Merrill Lynch....
...Like O’Neal, Weaver describes the nexus between local politics and corporations as “the good ol’ boy network”....
...Huge losses on mortgage investments cost Merrill Lynch’s chief executive, Stan O’Neal, his job in 2007 and ultimately precipitated a sale to Bank of America in 2008....
...Shaquille O’Neal, the retired NBA basketball player, is joining the board of pizza chain Papa John’s International....
...For a few weeks in the autumn of 2007 he served as interim chief executive, stepping in after the departure of Stan O’Neal and the arrival of John Thain from Goldman, just as vast holes were opening up in...
...O’Brien recounts the story with enormous verve....
...But not all his colleagues further down the ranks at Merrill, which sell stocks and bonds to retail investors as part of a famous “thundering herd” of advisers, shared Mr O’Neal’s gratitude....
...As the journalist Neal Ascherson recalled: “If you said, ‘Oh, he’s a Nat,’ it implied he was some sort of crazy eccentric....
...Neill 22 Mel Machin 23 Jimmy Sirrel 24 Keith Peacock 25 Tony Pulis 26 Dave Smith 27 Jack Charlton 28 Paul Simpson 29 Bobby Gould 30 Gary Megson 31 Terry Venables 32 Danny Wilson 33 David O’Leary...
...Name: Neil O’Brien Position: director, Policy Exchange think-tank Age: 30 CV: O’Brien worked in City PR after graduating from Oxford and before launching Open Europe, a leading Eurosceptic think-tank,...
...Then he excoriated Mr O’Neal and the board members who installed him as chief....
...By 2002, when O’Neal took charge, Merrill was over-extended. O’Neal fired thousands of employees and campaigned against the “Mother Merrill” culture....
...He follows the likes of Citi’s Chuck Prince and Merrill Lynch’s Stan O’Neal out their respective doors. Luckily for Fred Goodwin et al, this fashion is unlikely to catch on in Britain....
...Mr Thain replaced Stanley O’Neal who had angered Merrill’s board by, among other things, making an unauthorised merger approach to Wachovia....
...Thain took the reins at Merrill Lynch in December 2007, after Stan O’Neal was ousted”....
...Merrill Lynch thanked chief executive Stan O’Neal for “leading a major transformation” when he was jettisoned last autumn....
...selection of John Thain as Mr O’Neal’s successor....
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