They have agreed to act "en bloc" in discussions over the future of the sport and have been pushing for a single tyre manufacturer for several months, although the FIA says it proposed the idea at a meeting last May.
He has bought out Sotheby's New York jewellery experts enbloc, taken half its French furniture team and is seeking to seduce to Phillips the impressionist, modern picture and contemporary art expertise of Sotheby's and Christie's in London, with all the multi-million-dollar business and contacts they can bring.