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...JPMorgan has named Alex Bruce as head of Emea M&A for its financial sponsors group, and tapped Nitin Maheshwari as head of Asia-Pacific strategic investors group M&A....
...Architects Guillaume Koffi and Issa Diabaté (our cover subject), are proposing some of the biggest and most ambitious building projects around Ivory Coast, and in doing so have rejected many assumed architectural...
...becoming an ESG stock, says chief executive (FT) Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits (FT) Goldman Sachs’s China dealmaker stops tapping US investors (FT) Alternatives M&...
...The industry keeping M&A boutiques in business: themselves Boutique banks starved of deals to work on are turning to M&A among themselves.This year has kicked off with the slowest start for dealmaking in...
...“I’m also not sure there’s enough TNT in Israel to destroy all the tunnels,” he added....
...“I’m in a big questioning phase,” the 54-year-old architect and developer Issa Diabaté tells me from the contemporary office he shares with his associate Guillaume Koffi, 64, and their staff in Abidjan,...
...Take a break from the news Issa Diabaté is perhaps Ivory Coast’s most famous architect, writes Joe Penney for HTSI....
...She and our colleague Rob Smith were hooked by how the Issa brothers financed the deal. Kaye WigginsI talked to a lot of people in private equity about this story because I’m just so fascinated by it....
...“It will follow a similar model to B&M,” he added, referring to the discount retailer that Leahy chaired for five years after CD&R acquired a majority stake in it in 2012....
...Goldman Sachs has expanded the roles of its head of global activism and takeover defence Avinash Mehrotra and head of global natural resources M&A Brian Haufrect to become co-heads of M&A for the Americas...
...Hello, I’m Emma Dunkley on the Asset Management team and I’m filling in for Harriet today....
...Still, with no phone or internet signal, no television and no alcohol (unless you have visited Abu Dhabi duty free), I’m beginning to think of Socotra as Detox Island....
...“As an investor you’re trying to get clarity — is what I’m looking at a translation problem or a demand problem?” said Jack Caffrey, a portfolio manager at JPMorgan Asset Management....
...This article has been corrected to say that Morrisons sold its M Local brand, rather than closing it...
...After two years it called time on “Morrisons M”, taking a £30mn loss. This time could both be easier and provide useful growth a year after Morrisons’ own debt-laden buyout....
...The owners of UK supermarket group Asda, brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa and private equity group TDR Capital, have made an initial non-binding bid but it is not clear whether they will now make a formal...
...I’m going to be crude: if someone wants to fuck, then that person is sexy, deep down. I don’t think Vincent and Juliette worried about it....
...The Issa brothers and TDR agreed to buy Asda from Walmart in a £6.8bn deal agreed last year....
...The Sunday Times reported over the weekend that Apollo has begun assessing a bid for M&S after concluding that the retailer was undervalued....
...But some of that came from EG Group, the highly leveraged petrol station company that TDR and the Issa brothers also own. It doesn’t say how much of the money came from EG....
...Job moves Goldman Sachs’ co-chair of global M&A Michael Carr is retiring after 25 years at the Wall Street investment bank, according to a memo seen by DD....
...The deal is the latest in an M&A spree across corporate Britain by deep-pocketed North American buyout firms eager to capitalise on the low-interest-rate environment....
...The owners of UK supermarket group Asda, brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa and private equity group TDR Capital, are also in the running after submitting initial bids....
...Foremost among the Malian musicians in the ensemble are Amano Ag Issa and Mohammed Issa Ag Oumar of Tartit, a group that did not hesitate to push boundaries....
...“I think the property alone is enough to fund the M&A....
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