The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - the series returns - Part 7 - Betaville.co.uk
Friday, 15 March 2024 7:02 amReports emerged overnight in the Financial Times and Bloomberg that Redbird IMI may now be looking to offload The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator after British parliamentarians moved to block the sale of the titles to the investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates.
Monday, 15 January 2024 6:32 pmLittle old Betaville has been ruminating on the Genteel Hustler's excellent scoop in yeseterday's The Sunday Times about Redbird IMI hiring Robey Warshaw to get its takeover of The Daily Telegraph over the line with the British regulators.
Monday, 09 October 2023 8:59 amLast week George Osborne revealed in his Political Currency podcast with Ed Balls the way super secret takeover deals are disguised with "code words", such as Project "Cedar" and Project "Redwood"
Wednesday, 01 June 2022 10:52 amBetaville feels it may be time to draw to a close this series poking fun at George Osborne and his newish employers at Robey Warshaw.
Tuesday, 19 April 2022 10:59 amApparently, George Osborne has landed a role for uber dealmakers Robey Warshaw on the £3 billion Chelsea Football Club deal.
Wednesday, 13 April 2022 3:51 pmI see Sir Simon Robey is attempting to deal with the fact that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer he hired almost a year ago has so far failed to land a role on an announced takeover deal.
Monday, 28 March 2022 3:40 pmThis morning National Grid announced it is selling a 60pc stake in its transmission and metering business to a consortium led by Australian infrastructure house Macquarie for £9.6 billion including debt.
Tuesday, 04 January 2022 7:35 pmIt's been almost a year since the former Chancellor of the Exchequer joined Robey Warshaw to much fanfare but that doesn't seem to have led to much confirmed dealmaking, so far.
Monday, 20 December 2021 4:59 pmGeorge Osborne's new (ish) corporate finance firm received some generous press with reports suggesting Robey Warshaw partners shared £30 million over the last year.
Friday, 24 September 2021 10:02 amLoyal readers of Betaville's work on here and at the Mail on Sunday will be aware that I have been attempting to uncover what the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and editor of the Evening Standard has been up to since he joined the uber dealmakers at Robey Warshaw in April this year.
Thursday, 08 April 2021 4:59 pmBetaville spent a bit of time sounding out top political types about the hot potato Robey Warshaw might find itself holding if and when George "the banker" Osborne is activated to pave the way for a foreign client's contentious takeover of a British blue chip corporation.
Tuesday, 06 April 2021 5:57 pmYou have to wonder what sort of reaction will emerge once Sir Simon Robey calls upon George Osborne to smooth (some might call it lobby) the way with British government for a foreign takeover of another London-listed corporation.
Friday, 26 February 2021 7:24 pmGeorge Osborne says he is becoming a banker because he wants to do something "a bit more popular". Well, that was what he claims in his column in the excellent The Spectator magazine.
Wednesday, 03 February 2021 12:32 pmBritish newspaper hacks devoted plenty of column inches to George Osborne's move to Sir Simon Robey's firm Robey Warshaw this week. But little has been made of the fact that Sir Simon, the City of London's uber dealmaker, quietly resigned as a director of Ian Osborne's firm last September.
Saturday, 22 August 2020 1:50 pmMark, the "Kleinmanator", Kleinman of Sky News has gone for a Saturday afternoon wind up with a story about BT Group hiring Goldman Sachs and, maybe, Robey Warshaw to work on a defence ahead of a £15 billion takeover approach.
Friday, 03 January 2020 4:50 pmThey have been feted as Britain's top rainmakers. Yes, that's Sir Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw. Ever since they left their respective megabanks (Morgan Stanley and UBS) in 2013 and set up Robey Warshaw much smoke has been blown up their respective bottoms about how brilliant they are at advising some of Britain's biggest companies on mergers & acquisitions.
Wednesday, 11 September 2019 7:48 pmIt struck me as odd whilst re-reading this morning's press release from Hong Kong Exchange that Moelis & Company, a mid-sized American M&A advisory firm, is the sole advisor to the Asian bourse on its takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.
Monday, 19 November 2018 9:03 pmSir Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw - the uber bankers and founders of London-based M&A advisory firm Robey Warshaw - have taken a pay cut, according to Financial News.
