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...Google is making a last-ditch effort to change the EU’s incoming laws on Big Tech, Javier Espinoza reports from Brussels....
...javier.espinoza@ft.com ; @JavierespFT Chart du jour: it’s the inequality, stupid Labour has placed tackling inequality at the heart of its election manifesto, but Brexit has created a far more confusing...
...WPP owns a range of creative, digital and media buying groups, ranging from J Walter Thompson to Ogilvy & Mather and GroupM....
...Ermotti will replace Walter Kielholz, a former chairman of Credit Suisse. More here....
...Also included in the list is Charles Schwab chief executive Walter Bettinger, below, who executed one of the most cunning deals last year....
...He was trumped at the last minute by Guggenheim Baseball Group, led by Mark Walter of Guggenheim Partners....
...Talks to Buy Advisor Group for $2 Billion (BBG) Tesla’s road to autonomy is full of danger (FT) Tyson sells stake in Beyond Meat ahead of IPO (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Javier Espinoza...
...White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters is leaving the Trump administration in April to join Edelman Public Relations....
...In the end, 320 foreign creditors claiming $4.7bn took massive haircuts on their investments, according to the book Red Capitalism, by Carl Walter and Fraser Howie....
...According to Walter Kiechel’s book Lords of Strategy, Mr Bain was so secretive about the advice it provided clients that it became known as “the KGB of consulting”....
...will be revealed as the new chief executive of WPP next week, succeeding Martin Sorrell at the top of the world’s largest advertising group and the owner of companies such as GroupM, Ogilvy & Mather and J Walter...
...plan (FT) Ophir rejects overtures from Indonesia’s Medco (FT) L'Occitane inks $900m Elemis deal in skincare boom (BBG) German rail operator Deutsche Bahn wants to sell Arriva to reduce debt (Reuters) Walter...
...round-up French insurer Axa takes full control of Chinese venture (FT) SoftBank relaxed about price of India investments (FT) Learning the lessons of GE’s steepening decline (FT View) WPP to merge J Walter...
...Minerd, as you may remember, was locked in a power struggle with Guggenheim’s chief executive, Mark Walter....
...(BBG) Hong Kong steps in to support currency for fifth time (FT) Icahn sells Tropicana casinos in $1.85bn deal (Reuters) Follow the FT’s deals team Arash Massoudi in London — @ArashMassoudi Javier Espinoza...
...Court, who was promoted to head of global institutional distribution in April 2016, was at the heart of allegations of favouritism at Guggenheim due to her close personal relationship with founder Mark Walter...
...(FT) Swing and a miss Jeffrey Toobin on how golfer Phil Mickelson used a legal opening to narrowly avoid being charged with insider trading in the Billy Walters case....
...Walter “Jay” Clayton, who was nominated by the Trump administration and sworn in as chair of the SEC last week, selected as his first appointment William Hinman, a retired partner of law firm Simpson Thacher...
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