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...“I really had no idea how it was going to go,” said the gallerist Xavier Hufkens of this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach fair, echoing the uncertainty of many at this last big art event of the year....
...The price of Paris’s prime price homes increased by 8.9 per cent in the year to June 2022, according to Knight Frank Research, to €21,500 per sq m....
...Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has hired James Renahan as an M&A and private equity partner in London. He joins from Travers Smith....
...The law firm Shearman & Sterling has hired Xavier Norlain, Jeremy Scemama, Maud Manon and Matthieu Lampel as partners from DLA Piper in Paris....
...For Xavier Matsutaro, getting to the Scottish city of Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference will be one of the longest journeys of his life....
...Telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel wants to block a massive €3.5bn rights issue, part of Unibail’s plan to reduce debts by €9bn, just over a third....
...Chief curator Xavier Salomon offers various solutions to the painting’s enigmas and lands charmingly on a quotation from the poem “Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara: . . ....
...About half that amount is required in Switzerland and the US, according to research by Knight Frank. Singapore also ranks highly....
...Knight Frank is selling flats in the newly built Pure Living development from €265,000....
...I also love the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris by Frank Gehry. The building’s series of glass sails sit above water, which lends it wonderful transparency....
...Or François Xavier Lalanne’s monumental Rhinocrétaire of 1991 (pictured) — his armoured copper rhinoceros that transforms into a writing desk....
...It seems some investors felt a need to be painfully frank because they already thought a separate bonus scheme “did not align with the overall share price performance”....
...For space-age curves and sleek finishing that would make the Jetsons feel at home, look no further than Belgian furniture designer and sculptor Xavier Lust....
...The price per sq metre of property in the sixth is €13,880, up 10.2 per cent since last year, according to research by Knight Frank....
...Bernard Arnault opened his Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2014 and, outside the capital, the Fondation Carmignac has opened on the Île de Porquerolles, off the coast of the South of France...
...From £62; onitsukatiger.com The last thing I bought and loved was a Frank Buchwald Machine Light XL 1 in burnished steel....
...This year Mr Vereker put himself forward to replace Xavier Rolet as chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Group but was unsuccessful....
...“There will be many opportunities ahead to celebrate Xavier’s remarkable achievements,” said Mr Brydon, in announcing last month that succession planning would start....
...Available through Knight Frank, €5.6m Photographs: Xavier Muyard; AFP/Getty Images; edpics/Alamy; Hemis/Alamy; Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy; Loomis Dean/The Life Picture Collection/Getty...
...Let us be frank: the European Commission is an affront to this ideal. The EU is based on four freedoms — free movement of goods, capital, services and, above all, of people....
...They joined the firm from Fried Frank in 2015. Smart reads Remembering the 1987 stock market panic On October 19, 1987, the stock market fell more than 20 per cent....
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...Ms Szydlo gave a frank critique of the former Polish prime minister in her comments during a press conference: “He is not a good president for the European council....
...porter $2m A four-bedroom house with a pool close to the beach on Palm Jumeirah $3.5m A seven-bedroom house in Emirates Hills, with staff quarters More listings at propertylistings.ft.com Photograph: Xavier...
...Some worked out, such as LSE’s €536m purchase of a controlling stake in LCH.Clearnet, which completed in 2013, and its £1.6bn takeover a year later of index provider Frank Russell....
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