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Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.
Henlys Group PLC was a major London motor distributor and dealer founded in 1917 in London's Great Portland Street. In the 1980s it was taken over by a company associated with Michael Ashcroft then some years later sold to Yorkshire bus manufacturer Plaxton. Long-established Plaxton took the Henlys name in March 1992, sold the motor business in ...
The defendants include founders Walter Noel and Jeffrey Tucker and other fund partners who the plaintiffs allege "failed to fulfill their contractual obligations to use best efforts to supervise the operations" of Madoff-related investments and to "oversee the day-to-day investment activities of the fund." The case is Fairfield Sentry Ltd. v ...
The Fund purchased the preference shares outright, for a total £13.5 billion investment, and underwrote the issues of ordinary shares. Bradford & Bingley. Bradford & Bingley was nationalised by the UK government on 29 September 2008. The bank was divided into two businesses after the takeover.
Thomas Agnew & Sons is a fine arts dealer in London that began as a print and publishing partnership between Thomas Agnew and Vittore Zanetti in Manchester in 1817. Agnew ended the partnership by taking full control of the company in 1835. The firm opened its London gallery in 1860, where it soon established itself as a leading art dealership ...
Jarecki's activity in the bullion market was as a dealer in precious metals and in options. He was active [vague] when Mocatta became a counterparty to the Hunt Brothers in the Hunts' attempted silver corner of 1980. Mocatta & Goldsmid had previously been involved with stabilization of the markets under similar circumstances, such as the 1913 ...
Michael Alan Spencer, Baron Spencer of Alresford (born 30 May 1955), sometimes known as "Spens", is a British billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of NEX Group, a UK-based business focused on electronic markets and post-trade business which was acquired by CME Group in November 2018.
Peter John Nahum (born 19 January 1947) is an English art dealer, author, lecturer, and journalist best known for his frequent appearances on the BBC television program Antiques Roadshow, in which he was present from 1981 to 2002. He discovered a Richard Dadd watercolor on the show which was subsequently sold to the British Museum .