CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 7, 2011 Gide Loyrette Nouel The Paris-based law firm has announced its new executive committee, effective from 1 January 2012. Litigation specialist Baudouin de Moucheron (pictured) has been elected as senior partner to succeed Pierre Raoul-Duval. Stéphane Puel, who specialises in financial regulation and structuring investment funds, succeeds Christophe Eck as managing partner. Eck remains on the [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 14, 2011 Bargate Murray The City law firm has appointed Jonathan Lea as a senior associate in the corporate department. He will focus on developing relationships with the technology and digital media companies establishing themselves around the Silicon Roundabout area, as well as traditional corporate advisory work. Lea trained at Clyde & Co and has spent his [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 14, 2011 Bargate Murray The City law firm has appointed Jonathan Lea as a senior associate in the corporate department. He will focus on developing relationships with the technology and digital media companies establishing themselves around the Silicon Roundabout area, as well as traditional corporate advisory work. Lea trained at Clyde & Co and has spent his [...]
CITY VIEWS: IS IT TIME FOR THE PROTESTORS TO MOVE ON OR ARE THEY RIGHT TO DIG IN FOR THE LONG HAUL? October 20, 2011 JAMES SCHNEIDER | IBM “Socialism is stealing; the protestors should move on, it is unfair to the entire community. They don’t understand who is behind what they represent and they are attacking the wrong people.” MARK GREENLESS | LOCKTON “The protestors definitely need to move on, it is unfair to expect the church to close [...]
CITY VIEWS: IS IT TIME FOR THE PROTESTORS TO MOVE ON OR ARE THEY RIGHT TO DIG IN FOR THE LONG HAUL? October 20, 2011 JAMES SCHNEIDER | IBM “Socialism is stealing; the protestors should move on, it is unfair to the entire community. They don’t understand who is behind what they represent and they are attacking the wrong people.” MARK GREENLESS | LOCKTON “The protestors definitely need to move on, it is unfair to expect the church to close [...]
Free Cities: How countries worldwide are unleashing new economic prosperity January 26, 2012 AN ASTONISHING 3.3bn people will move from the countryside to live in cities over the next forty years. How will we handle that influx? By installing better legal systems worldwide. Legal institutions determine whether nations are rich or poor. Think of East and West Germany and North and South Korea, two controlled experiments in which [...]
Free Cities: How countries worldwide are unleashing new economic prosperity January 26, 2012 AN ASTONISHING 3.3bn people will move from the countryside to live in cities over the next forty years. How will we handle that influx? By installing better legal systems worldwide. Legal institutions determine whether nations are rich or poor. Think of East and West Germany and North and South Korea, two controlled experiments in which [...]
Test your wits with our quiz December 22, 2011 1. In a Which? magazine blind taste test of champagnes by experienced champagne tasters, Moet & Chandon’s Brut NV, priced at £30.99, received a score of 74%. But which of the following champagnes received the highest score of 85%? a. Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut NV (£34.49) b. Lanson Black Label (£31.99) c. Morrisons Brut [...]
Wall St’s IBM and Yahoo see strong profits April 19, 2011 IBM has raised its profit forecast, as the tech giant and online search provider Yahoo posted quarterly results ahead of Wall Street projections. Some investors were disappointed that the company did not raise its full-year forecast by a wider margin. “The concern is they didn’t really guide a whole lot higher than they had originally [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 13, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES PRIVATE EQUITY GROUPS BOOST STAKES IN HOT FUNDS Investors in the secondary leveraged buy-out fund market are using further leverage to finance such purchases, adding another layer of risk and stirring up memories of the debt-fuelled private equity boom ahead of the financial crisis. While private equity groups in Europe and the US [...]