pertained to management contracts of six major US ports. The purchaser was DP World (DPW), a state-owned company in the UAE. The contracts had already been foreign-owned, by P&O, a British firm taken over by DPW ..
"George Bush argued for the approval of the deal..
Dubai Ports World eventually sold P&O's American operations to American International Group's (AIG) asset management division, Global Investment Group .. The company is now known as Ports America"
"Luke Johnson was a founder and non-executive director of American Port Services PLC, a group providing maritime and aviation facilities based in the USA.
This business was sold to Associated British Ports PLC in June 1998 for £100m"
"The group is chaired by former Capita chief executive Paul Pindar, who in an annual review posted on the website said that since the end of 2013 IDH has successfully raised £400m in the UK high-yield bond market and £100m of new acquisition funding. ..
"IDH was founded in 1996 and backed by Luke Johnson, the entrepreneur who previously owned Pizza Express. Mr Johnson and his partners sold IDH in 2006 for just over £100m, with the private equity arm of Merrill Lynch among its subsequent owners...
"The company was created in its current form from the amalgamation of IDH and Associated Dental Practices in 2011, and now treats some five million patients each year.
Among its recent projects has been opening dental clinics inside several Tesco stores .." 🤔
"A major report by senior business leaders including Jon Moynihan, former executive chairman
at PA Consulting, venture capitalist Luke Johnson.. echoed Capital Economics’ verdict.
It said Britain “has nothing to fear” from pulling out of the EU, and that international banks
and financial institutions would remain in the City despite the change. They could even benefit
from lighter regulation, it added."
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Julia Llewellyn Smith, 2019, The Sunday Times
"..as a 1980s teenager from the sticks, enchanted by Brideshead Revisited’s toffish debauchery,the acme of my ambition was to attend Eddie Davenport’s Gatecrasher balls"
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"Twenty years later, ..an invitation to his latest venture filled me with dread.I had been asked — by the newspaper I worked for — to attend a Killing Kittens party".. 🎶
"Chicago-based BURG Translations, an international company specializing in technical translation services – recently named Angelo Passalacqua as CEO.."
- Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce , 2016
He co-founded Global Brigades – a charity in London
"Photos from One of the Most Notorious Underage Parties of the 1980s.. Alexander Reynolds, party photographer at Eddie Davenport's infamous Gatecrasher Balls" - Vice🎶
Bohemia 🎶
"Three decades ago, you couldn't go anywhere in West London without hearing the name Eddie Davenport. The cool-kid millionaire who wore Armani suits and drove the latest BMW, Davenport wasn't like the other rich kids in town.".. vice.com/en/article/vdx…
31 July 2010
"A flamboyant self-styled lord who entertained the rich and famous was banned from holding lavish parties at his £20million mansion."..
Bohemia 🎶
"Monaco-based Edward Davenport, 44, regularly hosted raucous all-night events for A-list stars that were littered with celebrity guests including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Paris Hilton."..
2023 : "West Ham boss David Sullivan is set for eye-watering profit when he sells his London mansion famed as Hollywood movies... and riotous sex parties"
"The sumptuous home in Portland Place, Marylebone, central London, is famed for its cultural history, including as the setting for Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, but also for riotous sex and drugs parties."..
"In 1954 Sierra Leone took on the house as their embassy remaining until 1998, when its history took a sharp change in direction after it was taken over by Edward Davenport, who had made his name organising debauched parties for public school kids." dailymail.co.uk/property/artic…