🚨Personal News!🚨. Very happy to have joined the
@FT
this week as the new Legal Correspondent. Back to my old hunting ground. Covering all things industry, corporate crime and antitrust. Let’s get scooping!
A fantastic piece from my colleague
@StephaniBaker
that will answer all your questions about the promise of a vaccine. Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine, devised by Sarah Gilbert, is in human trials. Now the world waits via
@BW
This is SUCH an important issue and deserves the same air time we give to pregnancy and mat leave. Millions of women exit the workforce for a little-talked about reason: menopause
@lizzzburden
via
@bbgequality
It's impossible to make enough of Donald Trump's antibody cocktail for everyone who might need it, according to the company working on scaling up production via
@business
SCOOP AstraZeneca is likely to conduct an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its Covid-19 vaccine with Oxford, CEO Pascal Soriot says in an exclusive interview via
@business
me and
@JamesPaton14
As one executive puts it when asked if they’d do it again: “Not in a million years. All we’ve had is grief.” AZ’s Covid vaccine has been marked by noble intentions, PR blunders, supply woes, and political rivalry. How did it go so wrong? w/
@StephaniBaker
Good news for Moderna, which didn't have a UK contract beyond 2021...Britain will buy an additional 114 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from Moderna and Pfizer to secure the country’s supplies following the emergence of the omicron variant via
@bpolitics
Great to see my first
@FT
newsletter go out today! Thanks for all the kind messages. Any lawyers out there who aren't yet signed up to Full Disclosure please click here for your weekly delivery of everything you need to know going on in the legal industry:
SCOOP - European regulators are set to start an accelerated review of a Covid-19 vaccine front-runner from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca via
@business
Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, jailed in Britain for causing a $2.3 billion loss at the bank, was detained Monday ahead of deportation to his native Ghana via
@business
@kayewiggins
Well done
@RuthsDavid
for having the confidence to talk about such a difficult
#metoo
experience on
@Channel4
this evening. Very proud to call this amazing woman my colleague
In the wake of Carillion, the U.K. is re-thinking its decades-long approach to outsourcing: The tussle over taking back the keys to the (United) Kingdom Check out my story via
@BW
SCOOP - The retailer of Muji products is considering moving its European HQ out of the U.K. because of Brexit, in what would be at least the second such shift by a Japanese company. via
@business
@lisadont
SCOOP - UK SFO makes seven arrests, raids nine sites as it opens investigation into suspected fraud at law firm group Axiom Ince. The FT got a rare ringside seat to the operation and the first sitdown interview with the agency's new boss: via
@ft
Bosses on Wall Street are locked in a fight for talent, driving up the salaries for entry-level bankers. How does $120,000—and a hefty bonus—sound, to start? via
@BW
Very pleased to be on the
@BW
cover this week with
@rileyraygriffin
. Check out our story on the topic of the moment: Vaccine Mandates for Kids Could Be the Next Big Back-to-School Fight. Kids have to get vaccinated for polio and measles - why not Covid?
Most people have heard of the drugs behind the new weight loss craze - Ozempic and Wegovy - but few know much about their maker, Novo Nordisk. I went to Denmark to visit the pharma company behind the hype as it grapples with its newfound fame:
@business
AstraZeneca's Soriot put the finishing touches on a $39bn deal and faced-down criticism on the co.'s Covid-19 vaccine, while sitting in quarantine in a hotel in Sydney with guards outside the door
#pandemicstyle
via
@business
“If men are doing all the top jobs and the women are making the tea, then there’s something wrong,” Vince Cable told me. New numbers show the clearest picture of how real the gender pay gap is via
@BW
EXCLUSIVE - J&J will ship some Covid-19 vaccines ordered by the EU to the U.S. for the last stage of production, raising concern among some member states of further delays via
@business
@AlbertoNardelli
Not everyone wants the Serious Fraud Office to chase rich wrongdoers out of Britain. Check out mine and
@wildfranz
long read and
@BW
front cover on the
@UKSFO
Will Post-Brexit Britain allow the agency's success to continue?
The most feared investor of them all is squaring up to one of Britain’s best-known companies. An under-pressure CEO says she’s not going anywhere: "I’m blessed with a degree of resilience.” via
@business
me and
@JamesPaton14
@scottdeveau
@MattCampbell
Need something to read while stuck indoors this snowy weekend? Check out mine and
@wildfranz
@BW
cover story on the U.K. Serious Fraud Office and Britain's ambivalent attitude to corporate crime
Exclusive - The U.K. government threw Valneva “under the bus” when it terminated a $1.6 billion Covid-19 vaccine deal after championing the French drugmaker’s shot, its CEO says. "There is some level of accountability that the U.K. government has to take.”
EXCLUSIVE: European regulators could approve the first vaccine against Covid-19 this year, after a flurry of trials by drugmakers leading the race showed promising results via
@bpolitics
A British lawmaker is calling for an inquiry into how some of the world’s biggest hedge funds placed bets around the Brexit referendum via
@markets
@GavinFinchBBG
An ex-Barclays trader fired over the misuse of an electronic trading program won a long-shot campaign to get a $190,000 job back at the bank via
@business
Exclusive with
@AlbertoNardelli
and
@chiaraalbanese
EU governments brace for further possible delays in the distribution of AstraZeneca’s, J&J's Covid vaccines after a warning from the European Commission via
@bpolitics
What is the gender pay gap all about and why does it exist? We're going to fill you in! Very excited to be part of a new
@BW
podcast exploring why women are losing out and what's being done about it. Due to air next month. Please subscribe!
ICYMI yesterday - Kate Bingham, the head of the U.K.’s Vaccine Taskforce, will step down from the role at the end of the year via
@bpolitics
me and
@elashton
Scoop - Britain’s proposed regulation of Big Tech must not be weakened, US economist and other high profile academics warn Sunak in letter via
@KateBeioley_FT
@FT
@jasonfurman
SCOOP - Valneva CEO speaks out for first time over cancelled U.K. Covid vaccine contract, saying government threw the company “under the bus” - Bloomberg
A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc prevented a majority of people from getting the disease in a large trial, another promising development in the quest to end the pandemic via
@business
An incredible account of Marchionne by a journalist who always went the extra mile - How I chased Fiat's late chief around the world for 10 years and rode in a racing Ferrari along the way via
@business
@TEbhardt
In summer 2012, two CEOs met for dinner in Vienna to discuss a merger. That meal gave birth to French biotech Valneva, a company that may be the dark horse in the Covid-19 vaccine race via
@business
Europe's new drug agency chief warns of vaccine safety challenges in exclusive interview with
@business
. Emer Cooke, the first woman to lead the
@EMA_News
, has some big decisions ahead:
AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine wins U.K. clearance, marking the first approval worldwide for a shot that’s faced questions but will be key to mass immunizations via
@business
Scoop w/
@AlbertoNardelli
The European Union is closing in on a deal with Valneva to purchase its Covid-19 vaccine for the region after talks stalled in April via
@business
"One Brussels diplomat, when asked by Bloomberg for thoughts on events unfolding in Westminster, merely texted back an “eye roll” emoji". The latest on Brexit: via
@business
SCOOP from
@kayewiggins
@wildfranz
and me. A first for me in a decade of legal reporting: A suspect in a major U.K. corruption investigation is suing his estranged wife to prevent her from sharing confidential information he's given her: via
@business
For all working mothers.. ‘Brown often left the office at about 5pm to head home. Family life was important, although she might be back at work again by 9pm in order to continue the day — alongside other female staff who were juggling families’
@FT
Astra Gives Oxford Experimental Shots to Almost 10,000 in U.K., 5,000 in Brazil and CEO Pascal Soriot tells
@BloombergTV
company wasn't hacked by Russia via
@business
More than 100 British companies have admitted breaching sanctions on Russia since it invaded Ukraine, showing how easy it is to fall foul of the rules when business ownership and shareholders aren't always known via
@ft
@Pinsent_Masons
Brexit SCOOPS alert - Company plans get underway with Pharma giant Merck planning for possible supply blackout while Brit retailers Clarks and Hut Group get set to open new European posts me
@JamesPaton14
@SamChambersDMC
@business
The U.K. accused Russian state intelligence of hacking international pharmaceutical and academic research in a bid to win the race to secure a vaccine against Covid-19 via
@bpolitics
Valneva is preparing to seek regulatory approval for its experimental Covid-19 vaccine after showing it provides better immunity than AstraZeneca’s shot via
@business
Hammond just announced an end to PFI and PF2 deals and had a dig Labour for being responsible for 90% of them -- something I noted in my story earlier this month. ICYMI: The tussle over taking back the keys to the (United) Kingdom
@BW
“I have no problem whatsoever with Adoboli, never met him and don’t want to either,” said former UBS CEO Oswald Gruebel. Read the full back story of "rogue trader" Adoboli's journey from UBS to Ghana here: via me
@business
@kayewiggins
@DonalGriffin1
ICYMI from the weekend - Scoop here on letter to Sunak about regulation for the likes of Meta and Alphabet coming...Britain’s proposed regulation of Big Tech must not be weakened, US economist warns via
@ft
Want to know the back story to Deutsche Bank's Christian Bittar? From a $126 million bonus to jail: the fall of a star trader via
@markets
me
@GavinFinchBBG
and
@wildfranz
Exclusive with
@ManySundays
The crisis engulfing lender Greensill Capital is adding stress to the U.K.’s pandemic-strained medical system via
@business
AstraZeneca plans to unveil coronavirus vaccine test results by year-end and begin supplying hundreds of millions of doses shortly thereafter, CEO Pascal Soriot says, dismissing reports of delays and manufacturing snags via
@business
An insight into the rise of the role of company GCs over the last 25 years - Goldman Sachs's $500 million lawyer is ready to call it quits via
@business
@sridinats
@tommetcalf123
Great piece from
@TimLoh
If messenger-RNA vaccines are the breakout medicine of the pandemic, then the tiny bubbles of fat that bring them into people’s cells are the unsung heroes via
@technology
The first trials to deliberately infect people with the coronavirus to accelerate the development of vaccines could occur in the U.K. next year via
@business
@JamesPaton14