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    Robert Smith

    Capital Markets Correspondent

    Robert Smith writes about corporate debt and distress for the FT. He has been at the forefront of several of the FT’s high-profile financial investigations, winning acclaim for his role in exposing former prime minister David Cameron’s dubious lobbying efforts for Greensill Capital in 2021.

    Robert has won numerous awards for his reporting, including Investigation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards and the Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.

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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Vedanta Resources PLC
      Indian conglomerate Vedanta to break up as debt crunch looms

      Anil Agarwal is splitting the group into six entities in an effort to raise their valuation

      Mine workers standing on copper plates at Nchanga mine, operated by Vedanta Resources’ Konkola Copper Mines
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Why GIC ditched Vista Premium content

      Plus, the four-person firm auditing Adani and the insider trading allegations against a former Blackstone and Goldman trader

      The Due Diligence logo
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Adani Group
      Adani switches UK auditor to firm with four partners  

      Indian conglomerate has turned to a little-known London-based firm for its UK subsidiaries

      The Adani Group headquarters in Ahmedabad, India
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Altice Europe NV
      Altice looks to borrow for first time since co-founder’s arrest

      Empire built by Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi is seeking €500mn from investors

      Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Victoria PLC
      Royal carpet maker Victoria’s shares tumble on auditor’s fraud risk warning

      Grant Thornton raised concerns over one of group’s subsidiaries

      A red carpet is brought out of Buckingham Palace ahead of the coronation of King Charles III in May
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Victoria PLC
      Victoria plc’s audit nightmare

      “We were therefore unable to reduce the risk of material fraud or error to an acceptable level”

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Frasers Group
      Frasers tries to pull Morgan Stanley boss into margin call legal fight

      Sports Direct owner seeks testimony from James Gorman as it gears up for High Court battle with investment bank

      James Gorman
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Dominic Raab and other Tory MPs prepare for life after parliament

      With the Labour party 18 points ahead in the polls many Conservatives are weighing up their career prospects

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Lex Greensill
      Lex Greensill and the coconut ‘army’

      There they are, all standing in a row

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Lex Greensill
      Lex Greensill’s family backs sustainable coconut waste start-up

      Shareholding is financier’s first known investment since collapse of Greensill Capital

      Lex Greensill
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Sanjeev Gupta
      Gupta claims Greensill assured him loan documents ‘are irrelevant’

      Witness statements by metals magnate say verbal agreements underpinned billions in financing from firm

      Lex Greensill and Sanjeev Gupta
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Greensill Capital
      Greensill charged ‘excessive’ fee to arrange NHS project financing

      Collapsed firm’s insurer claims it deliberately avoided disclosing the £10.4mn structuring charge

      A logo displayed on the offices of Greensill Capital in the Daresbury Park business estate near Warrington
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      News in-depthAltice Europe NV
      Altice fraud arrests throw spotlight on Drahi’s elusive right-hand man

      Co-founder and key troubleshooter Armando Pereira was kept away from investors

      Montage of Altice logo, Armando Pereira and Patrick Drahi
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Telecoms
      Altice co-founder placed under house arrest in Portugal in corruption probe

      Armando Pereira suspected of being involved in scheme to rig telecoms and media group’s local procurement processes

      Armando Pereira, Altice co-founder
    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      Lars Windhorst discloses multimillion loss on sale of Berlin football club

      Private equity group 777 bought the struggling team for a fraction of the financier’s original €374mn investment

      Hertha Berlin players during a football match in May
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Person in the News
      The humbling of Casino chief Jean-Charles Naouri

      The French retail tycoon is about to be wiped out as part of a bailout of his cash-strapped empire

      Montage including photo of Jean-Charles Naouri
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      Lars Windhorst hit with €150mn freezing order

      German financier is trying to fend off litigation from a number of aggrieved creditors

      Lars Windhorst
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      AT&T Inc
      AT&T’s $13bn pile of puzzling payables

      Ceci n’est pas une supply-chain finance programme

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      Indebted financier Lars Windhorst denies living ‘billionaire lifestyle’

      German struggles to answer questions about net worth and solvency at London court

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Insurance
      Assured Guaranty has more than $10bn exposure to troubled UK water companies

      US insurer could end up on the hook in the case of defaults or missed interest payments

      A water engineer, dressed in a helmet and high-visibility clothing, uses a listening stick while shining a torch down a hole in a pavement in London
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Sanjeev Gupta
      Gupta’s landlord and lender push to wind up trading firm 

      Belgravia property owner and US investment firm pursue industrialist through courts

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Nigel Farage
      Nigel Farage downgraded from Coutts to NatWest

      Former Brexit party leader says he is victim of political persecution but ‘Queen’s bank’ has strict criteria

      Nigel Farage
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA
      Billionaires Křetínský and Niel compete for Casino

      Two competing groups offer cash injections as French supermarket races to restructure debts

      A customer walks with her trolley in a Casino Hyperfrais hypermarket
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Lars Windhorst
      German financier Lars Windhorst found in contempt of court

      London high court judge finds financier deliberately missed hearing in case brought by creditor

      Lars Windhorst
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      ExplainerThames Water PLC
      Why Thames Water is under growing strain

      Cost of utility’s £16bn debt has surpassed price increases it has been able to pass on to consumers

      A Thames Water tender
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