ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 25 -- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a law firm, issued the following news: BCLP has advised Great Portland Estates plc (GPE) on the acquisition of King Sloane Properties Limited (KSPL) from Belgravia & Chelsea Property Services Limited in a transaction worth pound sterling70m. The acquisition includes 57,456 sq. ft of mixed-use multi-let buildings with vacant possession expected by March 2024. As KSPL is a Barbados company, BCLP worked closely alongside local counsel H  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 26 -- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a law firm, issued the following news: BCLP is advising IS Dongseo Co. Ltd (ISD) on its acquisition of BTS Technology (BTS) for c. US$28 million. ISD is a South Korea-listed waste management and construction company. BTS is an electric vehicle battery recycling business that also offers waste recycling, management, storage and transportation services in Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. BTS operates a number of electric vehicle battery   more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Aug. 26 -- Columbia College issued the following news: Dean of the Robert W. Plaster School of Business Jonathon Moberly announced today that Jay Sparks '99 has been named the new director of Columbia College's Steven and Barbara Fishman Center for Entrepreneurship. Sparks will begin serving in the role on Monday, Sept. 11. The Fishman Center for Entrepreneurship, housed in the Robert W. Plaster School of Business, strives to carry out its mission to encourage an entrepren  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 26 -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release: Michelle A. Joubert Gill, MD, PhD, a nationally recognized physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural Homer E. Nash Jr., MD, Professor in Pediatrics. The honor was bestowed by St. Louis Children's Hospital through a gift funded by an anonymous donor to honor the legacy of Nash, a beloved pediatrician who spent   more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Aug. 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: * * * Findings show how storytelling narratives of individuals' experiences often leave out broader public health, socioeconomic and environmental contexts, which can be crucial for building empathy and influencing policy decisions. * * * A new health humanities essay from the University of Missouri highlights how the narrative of many news stories detailing the challenges of health care wor  more