US legal correspondent, @FinancialTimes
New York, NY
Joined January 2009
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This is a story about the rise and fall of a man from a working-class town. It’s about power in a grey area of global finance. It’s about football, swearing, a Blackpool bar called Shenanigans - and a tangerine boat. Enjoy.
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Big scoop from team FT on China's sovereign wealth funds pulling back from US PE amid trade war tensions. One of the biggest LPs out there, further evidence that a trade war is impacting capital flows.
@HarrietAgnew @alexandraheal @kayewiggins & myself.
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Blackpool, grey areas and every shade of greed and ambition in between
Your finance longread for the weekend by the one and only @kayewiggins on a saga we've led on from start to near finish at the @FT
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This is a story about the rise and fall of a man from a working-class town. It’s about power in a grey area of global finance. It’s about football, swearing, a Blackpool bar called Shenanigans - and a tangerine boat. Enjoy.
w/ @BondHack @OrtencaA57227
on.ft.com/3DTv1m6
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In March the insolvency service asked for the disqualification of Lex #Greensill as a director for up to 15 years.On what exact grounds?@FT asked.
4 months later, after an application to the court under the principle of open justice, we have some answers
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It’s out! This @FT visual story explains how private equity tangled banks in debt, and why regulators are paying attention
By @OrtencaAl @samjoiner @sam_learner @inari_ta @william_louch & me
ig.ft.com/private-equity/
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BIG @FT MEDIA SCOOP
Axel Springer and KKR in talks to break up media empire
Details in link + as Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in Sun Valley
w @laurapitel
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New: a hedge fund has named a former Segantii Capital Management employee as the person it believes was linked to several trades at the centre of US probes into Morgan Stanley’s block trading business.
Full story, by @OrtencaAl & I:
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Exclusive: the hedge fund Segantii bet against Canada Goose after talking to a Morgan Stanley banker whose desk knew of an impending share sale that threatened to hit its stock price
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w/ @OrtencaAl & @CostasMourselas
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FT Scoop: Segantii Capital has told investors it will hand back their money, weeks after. HK authorities announced a criminal insider dealing case against the hedge fund and its founder Simon Sadler
W/ @kayewiggins @OrtencaAl @CostasMourselas
More soon FT.com
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Come join us at @FT
"We would love to have green lights all over the place... But in the territory that we operate [in] there are no red lights either"
The financier turning sales at China's noodle shops and karaoke bars into tradable securities
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🚨🚨🚨Come and join the finest finance reporters around! Plenty of opportunities to break stories, write features, and develop a lasting career at a media company that supports its people through thick and thin. If interested, get in touch or apply!
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Wall Street banks are toning down language on China risks, in order not to upset Beijing. My latest column ->
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We are hiring!
Come work with the best finance reporters in the business and build your career at the Financial Times.
Details to join our Due Diligence team as a reporter and producer here...
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A star JPMorgan banker became CEO of Hong Kong’s stock exchange as it entered one of its most difficult times.
He came in with a big idea: give companies tokens for having women on their board. Colleagues were unimpressed
Deep dive by me & @KangHexin
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The brilliant @annaknicolaou and I spent hours and hours of our lives digging into Hipgnosis last year, and I’m so glad we did. Here’s what we wrote back then
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Hipgnosis (finally) admits that the “independent valuation” of its music is way higher than it should be. They have delayed the release of their financial results to sort it out:
(this comes 1.5 years after we first reported on this issue in the FT)
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From “Asia’s freest economy” to “take a burner phone”: audit and consulting firms have advised some US-based executives to leave work devices behind on trips to the territory — mirroring the approach to China. Scoop @kayewiggins @Urbandirt @leahyjoseph @FT ft.com/content/eace699c-ce75…
New on @FT: KPMG and Deloitte are asking staff to use burner phones when they visit Hong Kong
Scoop with @Urbandirt and @leahyjoseph
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