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...Son’s new villa was completed just as SoftBank pulled in tens of billions of dollars from the Middle East to launch the $100bn Vision Fund....
...Silicon Valley investors are touring the Middle East, seeking to build long-term ties with sovereign wealth funds during the worst funding crunch for venture capital firms in almost a decade....
...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Now he runs a venture capital firm with his partner, Ben Horowitz....
...But, Chiave says, “We ended up partners. Look at that!”...
...As a partner at one Silicon Valley venture fund put it: “The Four Seasons in Riyadh is basically Palo Alto.”...
...Job moves UBS has shaken up the leadership of its critical Middle East wealth management operations as it comes under pressure to keep staff happy following its takeover of Credit Suisse....
...On Wednesday, Silver Lake added BDT & MSD Partners — the private capital firm founded by Byron Trott and Michael Dell — to the consortium....
...Jones Day has named 45 new partners. Smart read Down bad Andreessen Horowitz wore the title of Silicon Valley’s greatest crypto bull proudly....
...Thomas Höppner, a partner at law firm Hausfeld and a professor of law at Technical University of Wildau, argues Section 19a hasn’t yet produced significant results....
...“The border has become a very live issue,” said Harsh V Pant, vice-president for studies and foreign policy with the Observer Research Foundation think-tank....
...The moment of inspiration came during a year he spent studying abroad in Glasgow when he watched a YouTube video of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey military transport aircraft, which has huge rotors that tilt...
...She was previously the bank’s head of equities distribution for Europe, the Middle East and Asia....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...The Valley also includes the villages of Avington, Easton and Martyr Worthy, and they offer good access to popular, independent St Swithun’s School on the east side of Winchester....
...Facebook and Google are planning a new undersea cable to connect Japan with south-east Asia as the Silicon Valley groups boost investment in internet infrastructure in regions with high growth potential....
...M&A advisory group Proventis Partners has hired Jan-Philipp Pfander as a partner in its Zurich office. He was previously a managing director at Moelis & Company....
...It was, for a long time, one of Silicon Valley’s great success stories....
...Law firm Goodwin has hired Joshua Zachariah as a partner in its M&A practice. He joins the Boston office after working as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco and New York....
...And finally, ending on an excellent note, a word from Silicon Valley: “If there’s a dip, you should buy more,” said GGV Capital managing partner Hans Tung. You heard it here folks....
...Big London-based names such as Winton, CQS and Lansdowne Partners have all run up big losses this year....
...(New York Times) Private equity is watching Silicon Valley buyout group Francisco Partners has poured billions into surveillance technology companies in exchange for eye-watering returns....
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...A pipeline of opportunities The Asia Gas Pipeline project was part of a grand undertaking that accelerated a shift of economic power from west to east....
...Across the border, Shenzhen has transformed itself into a sort-of technological mecca dubbed the Silicon Valley of hardware....
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