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...Josep M Colomer Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, US...
...Fried Frank, the US law firm, has poached a team of financial services lawyers from its rival Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, as fierce competition for lawyers rages across the industry....
...In the late 1940s, a large chunk of the Republican party turned broadly isolationist, led chiefly by the Ohio senator Robert Taft....
...Top Wall Street law firms were fuelled by strong capital markets and record levels of M&A during the pandemic, leading to record 2021 results....
...“The opportunistic deals are not happening, and M&A is what drives the engine for a lot of the biggest firms.”...
...The global team, which advised on 300 M&A and private equity deals last year, collects more than 60 data points per deal and feeds them into an information pool to provide insights for future transactions...
...Kirkland & Ellis London M&A partner Tom McCarthy is joining the legal team of private equity firm Triton Partners....
...“I kind of realised that I’m putting in all of this work and this is a multibillion-dollar company and I’m just making it by. Why is that the case? I can do something about that....
...Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, another US law firm, said it would pay additional bonuses equal to 120 per cent of the market rate for those who billed 2,200 hours....
...Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has hired Kiran Kadekar as an M&A partner. He was previously general counsel for impact investment firm McCourt Global....
...In November, New York firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft told associates in a memo seen by the FT that lawyers billing 2,200 hours or more would be eligible for a year-end bonus of as much as $138,000....
...“You think: ‘I’m a big celebrity and I have followers and I’ll come back in 2024. But now you’re fighting with no official power around you. None....
...“I’m really enjoying it, I have to say.” Vance’s office is giving Gravante an opportunity to argue why his client should not be charged — just as they did for Weisselberg....
...For those without a direct recollection — or those who need reminding — I strongly recommend Ron Brownstein’s piece on the parallels between Robert Taft and Mitch McConnell....
...But the end of government support schemes and months more of depressed M&A revenue have triggered the start of law firm job cuts....
...Companies also responded to the disruption wreaked by tech giants such as Google and Amazon by striking deals, and US law firms benefited in particular from a surge in domestic M&A....
...Cooley has appointed Kevin Cooper as a partner in its M&A practice, based in New York. Cooper joins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz....
...I’m not strongly committed to particular political parties. I’ve had very high-level political appointments over the years from almost equal numbers of Democratic and Republican presidents....
...Lary Stromfeld PartnerCadwalader, Wickersham & Taft When he graduated from college, Lary Stromfeld undertook social work with senior citizens before going to law school....
...Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the US law firm, has hired Stephen Fraidin as a partner. He was vice-chairman of Pershing Square Capital Management....
...Baker McKenzie has appointed Rose Zhu as M&A partner in China from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft....
...After that, he served as co-head of US M&A at JPMorgan Chase before leaving to become deputy chairman at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft....
...Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has hired one of America’s leading antitrust lawyers from rival Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, its latest step to boost its mergers and acquisitions practice....
...Letter in response to this report: Momentous times for the US political system / From Albion M Urdank...
...The president says simply: “I’m very proud of this moment.” Even leaders so obviously untroubled by self-doubt fret about their legacy. Watching Syria burn cannot be comfortable....
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