STRICTLY BALLROOM AS HOGAN LOVELLS TAKES TO THE DANCEFLOOR November 27, 2011 PALE winter skin was smothered in fake tan and suits were replaced by sequins. Think The Only Way is Essex meets Strictly Come Dancing and you’re halfway to picturing the spectacle that was Hogan Lovells’ ballroom dancing contest. There is no record of what the law firm’s clients made of it all, but the Legally [...]
WANEY SEES IN 2012 AT NEW YEAR’S EVE CONGA January 2, 2012 DILEMMAS, dilemmas. Should one have accepted the invitation to see in 2012 with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at Roman Abramovich’s £5m party on the Caribbean island of St Barts? Or should one have saved oneself the bother of a plane journey and make an appearance at restaurateur Arjun Waney’s New Year’s Eve party at his [...]
CITY SNAPS UP FLATS IN DELAUNAY NEIGHBOUR December 6, 2011 NO PRIZES for guessing who was first through the doors of The Delaunay: restaurant reviewer AA Gill, who was yesterday spotted having breakfast with the new brasserie’s co-owner Jeremy King. Of course, Gill was followed closely by The Capitalist, who caught up with King as he studied the architects’ plans for his next opening Brasserie [...]
CITY SNAPS UP FLATS IN DELAUNAY NEIGHBOUR December 6, 2011 NO PRIZES for guessing who was first through the doors of The Delaunay: restaurant reviewer AA Gill, who was yesterday spotted having breakfast with the new brasserie’s co-owner Jeremy King. Of course, Gill was followed closely by The Capitalist, who caught up with King as he studied the architects’ plans for his next opening Brasserie [...]
Property firm St Modwen sees big year December 1, 2011 PROPERTY regeneration company St Modwen expects its full-year results to buck the economic downturn, coming in at the upper end of forecasts. The company, which owns the Elephant and Castle and Edmonton Green shopping centres in London, said in a trading update that sales and buyer interest in its new sites have both been high, [...]
Coop to make second-round bid for Lloyds branches November 4, 2011 The Co-operative Group will make a second-round bid next week for the 632 Lloyds Bank branches being sold as part of its bailout deal, the Manchester-based bank has confirmed. The Coop, which also owns former building society Britannia, joins new high street bank NBNK in the second-round race to buy the Lloyds assets in an [...]
Nuclear insurer Chaucer escapes big hit from Japan March 14, 2011 Chaucer, one of the world’s leading nuclear risk insurers, said it did not expect to take a big financial hit from earthquake-related damage to nuclear power plants in Japan. Chaucer said it provided property cover to a nuclear power plant at Onagawa, one of three affected by last week’s earthquake, but its policy excluded damage [...]
Nuclear insurer Chaucer escapes big hit from Japan March 14, 2011 Chaucer, one of the world’s leading nuclear risk insurers, said it did not expect to take a big financial hit from earthquake-related damage to nuclear power plants in Japan. Chaucer said it provided property cover to a nuclear power plant at Onagawa, one of three affected by last week’s earthquake, but its policy excluded damage [...]
That was the year that was January 2, 2012 22 FEBRUARY The revolution in Libya was the most striking incarnation of the Arab Spring, which also toppled leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. Just eight months later, Colonel Gaddafi was killed, while his family were captured or exiled. 14 MARCH With a death toll near 16,000, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami was truly devastating. Disrupted [...]
LLOYD BLANKFEIN GETS HIS JUST DESSERTS FROM BUSINESS ELITE November 6, 2011 THERE WAS only one sour note at the Goldman Sachs and Financial Times Business Book of the Year awards – the Roquefort-flavoured ice-cream, which went down about as well as sovereign debt exposure at MF Global. “I’m not sure about this,” said Jonathan Taylor from HM Treasury as he laid down his spoon with a [...]