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...Vernon Dennis, restructuring and insolvency partner at law firm Howard Kennedy, said: “A cash flow crisis such as this will lead quickly to insolvency, irrespective of the underlying value of the business...
...By 1960, with a wife and baby daughter in tow, he had graduated from Howard University Law School, the elite black college in Washington, and returned to Georgia....
...After college he attended law school at Washington’s Howard University, the elite black educational institution that would produce several star civil-rights lawyers....
...Vernon is working on a collection with the cabinet maker Alfred Newall....
...The slight, white-bearded figure seen scuttling through HQ was not the hard-left Labour leader who has threatened to turn RBS into an instrument of economic policy but a (newishly) hirsute chairman Howard...
...Investors have long been critical of Metro’s governance under the chairmanship of co-founder Vernon Hill....
...(The one victor who was less of a surprise was Michael Howard, who ran unopposed in 2003.) Frontrunners have tended to fail because of complacency and a sense of entitlement....
...However, Howard Flight, who has been a member of Metro’s board since shortly after it was established, will step down in April, the bank announced....
...Vernon’s easy manner at San Pietro is familiar from that June day in 2005....
...“People are drawing the obvious parallel to [Vernon],” said Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Bernstein....
...Mr Vernon will play “a key role in the ongoing development of the Jersey office”, Brevan said at the time....
...Except maybe in the Ron Howard movie. We need – and I think it’s built into the programme of Homo sapiens – this idea of confrontation and redemption. It becomes a kind of passion play....
...“What remains weak is commitment: to the economy, commitment to higher production, and commitment to new hiring,” said Howard Silverblatt, analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...Brevan Howard’s partners are among the highest paid hedge fund managers in the world....
...In fact, the band – led by the talented falsetto-singing songwriter Justin Vernon – produced a compelling performance, with crystalline guitars and drums that added power to precision opening up the songs...
...Brevan Howard confirmed but declined to comment on Mr Vernon’s decision to leave....
...James Vernon, the chief operating officer and co-founder of Brevan Howard, the world’s fourth-largest hedge fund, is to leave the firm, the FT reports....
...Alexia Howard, of Bernstein Research, said Mr Vernon had been pushing Kraft to be “edgier” and more entrepreneurial and that as a standalone company the grocery business will have more opportunity to seek...
...Hedge fund Brevan Howard’s chief operating officer and co-founder James Vernon is leaving the firm, becoming the most senior figure to head for the exit since it was set up nearly a decade ago....
...Mr Blochet joined a rival, Mr Vernon is, according to industry gossip, opening a B&B in France. Bless....
...The dispute has so far included the airing of e-mails between two powerful chief executives – Starbucks’ Howard Schultz and Kraft’s Irene Rosenfeld....
...Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz raised concerns about his company’s distribution partnership with Kraft almost a year ago according to emails that appear to conflict with Kraft’s claim that relations...
...Peter Vernon, chief executive of Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, said: “We think that it is a good time to raise long-term money....
...Vernon Ellis, chairman, English National Opera. Peter Ellwood, chairman, Rexam, beverage can maker. Michael Gregory, head, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge....
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