GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical giant, said on Wednesday that Simon Dingemans, head of the European M.&A. business at Goldman Sachs, would become its new chief financial officer. Mr. Dingemans has been an adviser to a number of major companies on deals, including BHP Billiton and Macquarie. He was was previously head of investment banking in [...]
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who died in a plane crash last week, will lie in repose Tuesday in Anchorage for a public viewing ahead of his funeral Wednesday. Alaskans will be able to pay their respects to the longtime senator at All Saints’ Episcopal Church from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (2 p.m. to [...]
The president will sign the financial reform bill into law on Wednesday, July 21, and then lunch with a select group of House members — presumably to thank them for their legislative foot-soldiering (or, perhaps, smooth ruffled congressional feathers). Here’s what’s on deck: 9:30 a.m. — Obama and Vice President Biden receive the Presidential Daily [...]
Conrad M. Black, the former media mogul, could stroll out of federal prison Wednesday just two years into the 6 1/2-year sentence he received for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars, but whether he’ll be a free man isn’t yet clear, The Associated Press said. U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve will set the [...]
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wrote in an op-ed Wednesday that he would vote against Elena Kagan, saying President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court fails his personal test of “integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.” In an opinion piece for USA Today, McCain seized upon accusations that Kagan, as [...]
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