Eton

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Two years later Repsol was awarded $5 billion in damages but smaller shareholders like Petersen Energia Inversora and Eton Park Capital Management, which together controlled a 25.4 percent stake, got nothing and sued in 2015.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

But smaller shareholders, including now closed U.S. hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management, said they were left out by the Argentine government and sued in federal court in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Plans by Eton College to open selective sixth-form centres in Dudley and Oldham have been approved, but its Middlesbrough proposal is earmarked for cancellation.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

Lord Cameron is among a number of former British politicians who were educated privately at Eton College in Berkshire.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown