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...Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has named Clarke Adams as head of high-yield capital markets and Matt Burke as head of leveraged finance origination....
...When troubled New York law firm Shearman & Sterling’s merger talks with its transatlantic rival, Hogan Lovells, collapsed in March, Shearman’s Adam Hakki knew who to call....
...They talk that way, they think that way, it’s all about maximising revenue and profit”, said Bruce MacEwen, president of law firm consultancy Adam Smith....
...“In prior bad markets, things seemed to go bad quickly, we went from boom to bust,” said Adam Fleisher, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb....
...“Everything is on hold at the moment,” said Derek Dostal, a capital markets partner at law firm Davis Polk....
...Rival Davis Polk & Wardwell immediately topped that and Milbank and other firms then matched the higher figure....
...He worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He eventually became chief executive of a test preparation company, Manhattan Prep, that was sold to Kaplan, the education company....
...The bar was quickly raised by Davis Polk, which set a maximum special bonus of $40,000....
...Adam Kaufmann, then Mr Vance’s chief of the investigations division, was convinced the Trumps had knowingly lied and wanted to continue the investigation....
...Andrew Polk, of consultancy Trivium China, said: “Chinese officials have shown themselves to be willing to take a chance on an unproven — and likely less effective — set of policy tools even in the midst...
...Turano joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell where she was an associate. Smart reads Private equity’s trail of death Private equity is remaking the healthcare industry and the results are shocking....
...The event, which we expect will be a bit out there, is a collaboration with film-maker Adam Curtis. If you want to check it out, there are some tickets remaining....
...to protect their technology, even to the point of denying it to their venture capital investors,” said John Reynolds, a partner specialising in economic sanctions and national security at law firm Davis Polk...
...Law firm Davis Polk has elected eight new partners. Read about it here....
...Faessen, who joins from Barclays, will lead the New York investment bank's global consumer and retail group together with Adam Taetle, who also joined a few months back from Barclays....
...The trend “will cost investors tens of millions of dollars on deal after deal after deal,” says Adam Cohen, the founder of Covenant Review, a firm that analyses indentures and credit agreements....
...“Transparency is the regulatory philosophy on which US markets have thrived for nearly 80 years,” said Adam Emmerich, partner at Wachtell....
...Those beneath the UK’s “magic circle” and firms such as Cravath and Davis Polk in the US will have to be more like utilities....
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