| Directors of Canary Wharf Group are in line for a £23m windfall following the £2.6bn Qatari-led takeover of the property firm’s parent. Sir George Iacobescu, the head of Canary Wharf Group, will get the biggest share, £3.8m, from the sale of his Songbird shares to the Qatari Investment Authority and Canadian firm Brookfield Properties.
In 2013, Iacobescu was awarded more shares that have not been released yet and would be worth a further £2.3m, taking his potential total windfall to £6.1m. A Romanian engineer who escaped Nicolae Ceau?escu’s communist regime in the 1970s, Iacobescu has been involved in the construction of the Docklands financial district in east London from its beginnings in the late 1980s..............................................Full Article: Source
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