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...The Upper West Side used to be one of Manhattan’s more eclectic neighbourhoods — the primary setting for both Woody Allen’s 1986 ode to bourgeois neurosis Hannah and Her Sisters and 1971’s The Panic in Needle...
...“This comes back to the liquidity story and how speculative deals have become much more difficult to do these days,” said Benjamin Crawford, Beijing-based counsel at law firm Allen & Overy....
...Chopin’s Piano , by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, RRP£20 The only piano available to Chopin on Majorca in 1838 was a humble, locally made pianino....
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...Before that, Gillespie was at Allen & Overy. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has announced the departure of three senior executives — including two who are retiring....
...Now the gloomy pundits are arguing that Chinese buyers will be impeded by new rules there seeking to damp down buying foreign properties, citing Dalian Wanda’s decision to drop its £470m purchase of a 10...
...Besides its listed peers, Greenhill is competing against private firms such as Centerview, Qatalyst, Perella Weinberg, Allen and LionTree....
...A €2bn deal would be the largest overseas Chinese sports rights investment to date, following Dalian Wanda’s €1bn purchase of Swiss agency Infront Media last year....
...Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has three big yachts: Octopus, Tatoosh and Meduse....
...Dalian Wanda of China has also made London one of the biggest priorities in its ambitious global expansion plan....
...Wanda is pretty well insulated from any downturn if that happens in China.”...
...Following a stint as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, she rose to chief executive of CCH Legal Information Services, a US company acquired by Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer in 1996....
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