Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR), a leading mobility solutions provider, announced it has acquired Turiscar Group a well established, family-owned, car rental company in Portugal. The acquisition will see Avis Budget Group bring on board this leading organisation in Portugal with two distinct brands: Turiscar, a well-respected rental provider primarily in the corporate market, […]
Ardian, a world-leading private investment house, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Inula Group from Vendis Capital, Dominique Baudoux (Founder & Chairman) and Sergio Calandri (CEO). Inula Group was created following the merger of Pranarôm and HerbalGem, two pioneering laboratories specialized in natural therapies, founded in 1985 and […]
Equistone Partners Europe (“Equistone”), one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity investors, announced that it has invested in Wallenborn Transports alongside the company’s current President and CEO, Frantz Wallenborn. Founded in Luxembourg in 1920, Wallenborn Transports has since grown to become a leading provider of premium transportation services and one of Europe’s largest road feeder […]
Coface announced that it has signed a binding agreement with SID Bank, a Slovenian public bank, to acquire 100% of PKZ capital, a credit insurance subsidiary of SID Bank. Created by SID Bank in 2005, PKZ is the market leader in credit insurance in Slovenia, with a strong market share. In 2017, the company recorded […]
Tim Cook, Chief executive of the biggest company in the world: Apple, has called for stricter US data protection laws during a speech in Europe. During his speech, he admired Europe’s latest data protection law: the infamous GDPR. Cook stated, “We shouldn’t sugar-coat the consequences … this is surveillance”, adding that data is currently being […]
The Global Chair of one of the biggest law firms in the world, Baker McKenzie, has recently stepped down, due to medical issues that stemmed from exhaustion. Paul Rawlinson was appointed as Global Chair only three years ago in 2016 and has sadly announced he will temporarily be stepping down. The firm has not yet […]
Volkswagen are again facing the consequences of being dishonest in their diesel emissions tests. The car manufacturer revealed earlier this week that they have been hit with an additional fine of €926 million at the hands of German prosecutors. The new fine is due to their Audi subsidiary also falsifying diesel emission figures, taking the […]
Changing the way barristers are trained would dramatically alter the Bar’s standards as it would give solicitors an easy run on getting in, the Bar Council has stated. The proposals to change the route of training and education for barristers would heighten the chance of having solicitors who are not as familiar to certain testing. […]
Amazon are reportedly investigating claims that workers are selling confidential information for money. The investigations, mainly focused in China, are part of a wider effort to clamp down on malicious practices at the online shopping giant. A report by the Wall Street Journal has stated Amazon employees are accepting payments for internal data from independent […]
So may or may not have known that until recently, the Uber app on your iPhone was able to track and record your screen. Uber has now said that they are going to remove the code from their iOS app so that it can’t record the user’s screen; even when the app is closed. According […]
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