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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

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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Sir Simon Robey quits Osborne's firm... - Part 2

The Financial Times has just published an excellent piece about the mysterious financial and political fixer Ian Osborne, who has raised almost $500 million for a European SPAC. Below is a link to the piece.

https://www.ft.com/content/3ed742fd-ee22-475a-92d0-aeb5ce186ad2?sharetype=blocked..

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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...

You 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 the British government for a foreign takeover of another London-listed corporation...

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Young(er) rivals edge out uberdealmakers Robey Warshaw in 2019

They 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...

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Brexit, a City grandee and a deal...

Here is an idea. Why doesn't a British uber-dealmaker-City-grandee type step up and volunteer his/her services to negotiate a Brexit deal?

Betaville has had plenty dealmakers whinging about how badly the British government is doing with its talks with the EU over Brexit and that it's having a huge impact on UK M&A.

Indeed, Betaville knows of at least one large deal that's just been torpedoed because of the "Brexit uncertainty"...

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Is Comcast's adviser preparing to become a media mogul himself?

The reason Betaville posits such a question in the headline is that yesterday it was suggested in The Times that Ian Osborne - a former adviser to former British Prime Minister David Cameron - is trying to buy Fortune magazine from publisher Meridith via his advisory firm/investment vehicle Connaught, which counts Sir Simon Robey as a director. Below is a link to yesterday's piece in The Times:..

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