Posts tagged: George Osborne

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

Friday, 15 March 2024, 7:02 am

Reports 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 Redbird IMI investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates. Below is a link to the FT piece:..

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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 5

Saturday, 13 January 2024, 11:28 am

The Genteel Hustler has been hustling hard.

Genteel - also known as William Turvill, a reporter on The Sunday Times business section - has just landed a cracking story about how Redbird IMI, the investment vehicle backed by the United Arab Emirates, has recruited advisory the advisory firm that counts George Osborne as one of its partners to try to get its takeover of The Daily Telegraph, littld old Betaville's former employer, over the line...

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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 3

Monday, 9 October 2023, 8:59 am

Last 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"

So, it was interesting to read in today's front page news reports about the Metro Bank recapitalisation plan that there were lines about how Robey Warshaw, the M&A advisory boutique, is advising Santander on its interest buying the beleguered London-listed bank...

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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 2

Monday, 2 October 2023, 10:28 pm

George Osborne just can't help dropping little investment banking secrets into his new "Political Currency" podcast.

In his latest podcast with Ed Balls, the former Labour front bencher, Osborne refers to how code words such as "Redwood" and "Cedar" are used to disguise super secret takeover deals being worked on at investment banks in the City of London...

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - the series returns

Thursday, 21 September 2023, 10:42 am

George Osborne's new podcast show - Political Currency - has received a lot of media attention but little old Betaville was more interested in another podcast the former Chancellor of the Exchequer was involved with recently.

That podcast was the BBC's media show in which interviewer Katie Razzall asks a punch of pundits about sale of the The Daily Telegraph, which as loyal readers well know used to be little old Betaville's former employer...

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - The End

Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 10:52 am

Betaville feels it may be time to draw to a close this series poking fun at George Osborne and his newish employers at Robey Warshaw.

As loyal readers know, little old Betaville has been gently ribbing the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and his new partners at Robey Warshaw - the merger and acquisition advisory firm set up by London-based rainmaker Sir Simon Robey - since Osborne joined last year because he had failed to land any deals...

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - Part 7

Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 3:51 pm

I 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.

In a rare interview with Aaron Kirchfeld, Bloomberg's global deals editor, Sir Simon - one of the City of London's top dealmakers - says: "There is no point in having someone like George in the building unless you support them in winning new business."..

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - Part 6

Monday, 28 March 2022, 3:40 pm

This 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.

One of the advisory firms named on the bottom of the press release that worked on the deal for National Grid was Robey Warshaw, the advisory firm that last year recruited George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a partner...

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The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the boutique investment bank firm and, er, insert anything they are both involved with here... - Part 5

Tuesday, 4 January 2022, 7:35 pm

It's been almost a year since the former Chancellor of the Exchequer joined London-based deals advisory firm Robey Warshaw to much fanfare but that doesn't seem to have led to much confirmed dealmaking, so far.

According to data provider Refinitiv, Robey Warshaw - set up by ex Mogan Stanley uber rainmaker Sir Simon Robey and former UBS banker Simon Warshaw - last year came 13th in the annual UK merger and acquisitions rankings (also known as league tables)...

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