Hints and tips:
...Coca-Cola, Adidas, Hyundai, Visa, Wanda and Qatar Airways are all consumer-facing brands looking for the reach that the world’s biggest sporting event can offer....
...Pictures from the evening showed Ma doing magic tricks for Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame and posing with Canada’s Justin Trudeau....
...Chinese companies including financial group Huarong and property developer Dalian Wanda have sold about $11bn in keepwell bonds this year, according to financial research firm CreditSights....
...ComScore analyst Paul Dergarabedian said Joker was “one of the most unexpected results” for any movie he has seen in a 30-year career of tracking the box office....
...That family unity was on display late last year at the memorial service of family matriarch Wanda Ferragamo, wife of Salvatore, who died aged 96....
...Rivals Country Garden and Dalian Wanda, among China’s top five developers, are not far behind with $14.7bn and $13.9bn in dollar debt respectively....
...Halfway through Chopin’s Piano, the story makes room for Wanda Landowska, a Jewish-Polish pioneer of harpsichord performance, Chopin devotee, and compulsive journal keeper....
...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....
...Job moves Paul Rawlinson, the head of the international law firm Baker McKenzie, passed away on Friday....
...“If we don’t get more stability, there is a good chance that even fewer deals will be announced in 2019,” said Scott Barshay, a corporate lawyer at Paul, Weiss....
...Paul Hodges, Daniël de Blocq van Scheltinga and Paul Satchell publish The pH Report....
...Rather, it turned to Paul Weiss whose lead deal lawyer Scott Barshay defected from Cravath a few years ago....
...“It was a perfectly programmed summer that no one saw coming,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst at ComScore....
...Companies such as HNA and Dalian Wanda, once champions of global dealmaking, have been considerably reined in....
...R&F appears to be winning from Wanda’s turmoil....
...“China is not somewhere you can just plant your flag and away you go,” says Paul Rawlinson, global chair of Baker McKenzie, which opened its first Beijing office in 1993....
...Elliott Management’s Paul Singer has signalled he’s ready to head into battle with fellow billionaire Warren Buffett as the founder of the New York-based hedge fund decided to challenge Berkshire Hathaway...
...Paul Singer’s hedge fund on Wednesday announced it had taken a 5.6 per cent stake in Swiss travel retailer Dufry, which primarily operates duty-free shops in airports....
...(FT) News Round-up CVS looks to create new model with $69bn Aetna deal (FT) Dalian Wanda chairman injects $460m into cash-strapped group (FT) Dubai’s GEMS Education hires bankers for IPO (FastFT) Activist...
...Aetna’s outgoing CEO set to reap about $500m if CVS deal closes (WSJ) Discovery boosts its stake in Oprah Winfrey Network (BBG) Lyft raises target for latest funding round to $1.5bn (FastFT) Dalian Wanda...
...(FT) The world’s most feared investor A look at Paul Singer and Elliott Management Corp’s aggressive, tenacious and litigious to a fault investment record....
...At Wanda, management has already started what appears to be a massive sell-off....
...Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the law firm, has appointed Paul Hibbert as a partner in London focusing on infrastructure and real estate finance....
...While companies including heavy hitters like HNA, Dalian Wanda and Anbang Insurance have been stopped from buying overseas, CEFC is the only private group in China to seal a $1bn-plus deal....
...The first note — the photo below picturing Barber (on the right) with Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin — is a special post only for DD readers by him....
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