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Bernstorff

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[bern-shtawrf] / ˈbɛrn ʃtɔrf /

noun

  1. Count Johann-Heinrich 1862–1939, German diplomat.


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"There are two reasons: companies raising capital to finance acquisitions are going to be very careful about issuing straight stock and, secondly, because the hybrid market is so difficult", Bernstorff added.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2022

"We will see many more convertibles and mandatory convertible instruments because some issuers don't have many alternatives, and investors are still very keen," said Andreas Bernstorff, head of equity capital markets at BNP Paribas.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2022

Honored and protected by the United States Government, Count Von Bernstorff, late German Ambassador to the United States, will sail today for home.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916.

From Time Magazine Archive

In June 1763, Forskal wrote to Count Bernstorff, communicating some information respecting the balsam of Mecca; but in about a month afterwards he fell a sacrifice to science, and died at Jerim.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William