Author: Charlotte

Kirkland & Ellis has hired leading private equity M&A partner Will Aitken-Davies from Paul Weiss in London, in a major coup for the firm.Aitken-Davies is one of the City’s top dealmakers. He joined Paul Weiss in 2023 from Linklaters as head of European M&A, as part of the US firm’s high-profile London relaunch that saw it hire heavily from Kirkland.His departure marks a notable reversal of that flow, with Kirkland now claiming one of the senior figures brought in to build out Paul Weiss’s European offering.Return fire in LondonAitken-Davies advises leading private equity sponsors including KPS Capital Partners, General Atlantic…

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The best crypto to buy now takes on real urgency after Bitcoin dominance broke above 60.66% for the first time in 2026, while the Altcoin Season Index dropped to 37, firmly inside Bitcoin territory, according to BeInCrypto. Polkadot (DOT) and NEAR Protocol (NEAR) both sit more than 93% below their all-time highs as capital stays locked inside BTC and ETH. As the market waits for the rotation that history says is coming, the strongest entry is where conviction builds before the listing reprices everything. Pepeto has pulled in over $9.56 million, and analysts project at least 100x once the Binance…

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In its Household Savings Observatory Newsletter, the AMF presents trends in investment costs for savers in the financial markets, whether in collective investment funds or direct investments in listed equities. It highlights the continued decline in investment fund fees in 2025, as well as the stability of average fees on listed equities between 2025 and 2026Investment fund fees: the decline continued in 2025In the collective investment sector, the downward trend in fees for French funds continued in 2025 for equity funds and diversified funds.From 2010 to 2025, the average annual fees for French equity funds fell from 2.3% to 1.3%,…

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Florence Dallow: Everyone knows her as the basketball superstar that left UP cheering after she led the team to the legendary win against Gonzaga. But after seeing the guard’s performance on the court while recovering from multiple injuries, many were likely left wondering, “Just how did she get that way?”It would be surprising for most people to know that Dallow’s dreams didn’t always lie on the basketball court.The senior marketing major comes from an Auckland, New Zealand family that adores sports. Although she was exposed to basketball at an early age through her older brother Max, she spent most of…

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– Advertisement - I was walking with my good friend Brook on Thanksgiving morning, and we were talking about whether the current economic climate would lead to lower sales on Black Friday, the next day. We both arrived at the same guess, considering the downturn in the economy, Black Friday sales would probably be lower by at least 10% from last year. We were pretty confident.  Boy, were we surprised the following Monday when Black Friday sales were reported to be nearly 5% higher than 2024. The most significant increase was in online sales, skyrocketing this year, hitting nearly $12…

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Moomoo, an investment and trading platform based in Jersey City, announced the launch of Moomoo API Skills, a new capability it says is designed to help retail investors use personal AI agents to build and execute trading strategies without coding. The company said the feature is intended to move investors toward “agentic investing,” in which users connect their preferred AI platform through moomoo’s Skills API to initiate algorithmic trading. Moomoo said the system converts natural-language instructions into structured logic that can be executed within its professional-grade trading infrastructure. “For years, algo trading has largely been accessible only to users with…

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Private equity dominance: acquisitions with faster execution and lower riskIntroductionPrivate equity (PE) has emerged as a dominant force in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across emerging markets, including Ghana. In an environment characterised by macroeconomic volatility, constrained access to credit, and increased regulatory scrutiny, PE-led acquisitions are often perceived as a more efficient alternative to traditional corporate mergers. These transactions are commonly associated with faster execution, more predictable risk allocation, and enhanced strategy value.For Ghanaian legal practitioners and business leaders, however, the growing influence of private equity raises important questions regarding deal structuring, regulatory adequacy, governance standards, and the evolving role…

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