Hints and tips:
...The grooming staple I’m never without used to be Bermuda’s Royall Spyce cologne, but now I’m more into another classic, Clubman Special Reserve by Pinaud....
...“I’m not thinking that a whole lot of people are going to be reading this,” she says. “The text itself has its own integrity.”...
...I had an internship at Ernst & Young, where Jerome Thode and Willard Woods guided me through the corporate experience....
...You would think, I can’t believe I’m getting paid for this. But when people are making billions off music and don’t share it, that hurts,” he says....
...He spent 12 years at Cinven before that and began his career in the M&A department at Merrill Lynch....
...“I expect the existing incumbents of Imperial, BAT and Japan Tobacco will need to revisit their playbooks for M&A and value creation,” he said....
...I’m a businessman as well, I have a family to feed and I would like to capitalise and make as much money as I can while doing what I love.”...
...On the flip side, “If I’m playing to a really small audience of the completely converted I’m way more liberal and experimental with the set list.”...
...Mendoza will join the firm’s New York office and focus on M&A and private equity....
...Patel specialises in cross-border M&A. Law firm Orrick has hired Cooley partner Geoff Willard. Willard joins the firm’s technology practice as a partner in Washington....
...However, when word of the location leaked out to the public, the meeting was shifted to the Willard Hotel....
...The source stories are by author Maile Meloy, on this evidence a cross between Annie Proulx and Raymond Carver....
...“I was shocked to receive the call letting me know I had won and I’m in awe of the prize,” he said....
...At the Willard Hotel, which lies within spitting distance of the White House and has been draped in American flags, rooms were still available this week....
...As Howard Willard, chief operating officer of the tobacco group said in February, the stake has been “a nice contributor to Altria’s earnings per share”....
...Worldwide pending or completed inversions are at $139.4bn for the year to date, or about 6.5 per cent of the total M&A market, according to Thomson Reuters....
...Here she surprises, with choices such as Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willard Price, Michael Morpurgo, Roald Dahl and JK Rowling....
...Greubel Forsey, the Swiss watchmaker, cracked the problem in 2009 by commissioning Willard Wigan, a British sculptor who creates minute works virtually invisible to the naked eye – including a motorbike...
...And I say, ‘Settle down, Joe, I’m trying to run a cabinet meeting’.”...
...“My hope is through the strategic dialogue that I’m talking about maybe the need for some of these capabilities is reduced,” Mr Gates said....
...J.M. Smucker is, for instance, imposing an across-the-board rise of 9 per cent for its coffee sold to US supermarkets under brands including Folgers, Dunkin’ Donuts and Millstone....
...Much like its central characters, Peter Willard and James Todd, Robin and I have been drawn together for more than 20 years by such a mutual inability....
...So I’m out. I’m out of the business of running other people’s money. For the first time in many years, I’m not long Google or Apple or any other tech stock....
...The writer is a hedge fund manager at CL Willard Capital. www.codywillard.com...
...Cody Willard is a hedge fund manager at CL Willard Capital. cody@clwillard.com...
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