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...In 2021, Fitch Group acquired CreditSights, a research firm focused on analysing corporate debt, from its founders. Reorg’s clients include hedge funds, investment banks and law firms....
...Mishcon de Reya has become the latest law firm to open an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The Lawyer reports....
...GTCR’s headquarters are steps away from its longtime legal adviser Kirkland & Ellis, which has ridden the private equity wave to become the world’s largest law firm....
...That has opened up territory for firms such as Apollo, Blackstone and KKR to expand in....
...Despite its well-connected co-founders, hailing from Wall Street’s most powerful banks and law firms, the boutique advisory was little known outside of financial circles....
...During the financial crisis the firm had almost exclusively focused on leveraged buyouts....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...This law firm designation model has spurred a number of ethical debates in the industry, The Lawyer reports. The last pop superstar?...
...Randy Mastro, the trial lawyer and former deputy mayor of New York under Rudy Giuliani, is joining law firm King & Spalding as a partner....
...Thanks to law firms like Jones Day, however, the manoeuvre has become synonymous with something more complicated and less wholesome....
...Brent Fassett has joined law firm Wilson Sonsini as a corporate partner in the firm’s Boulder office. Fasset comes from Cooley LLP....
...Recruiters say the roles help law firms manage potential dilution of their equity pools as lawyers retire later....
...News round-up Telecom Italia: company break-up brings KKR back in play (Lex) Chinese metals group wins respite from banks on nickel bet (FT) Law firm DLA Piper to exit Russia as industry split deepens...
...Many law firms, Austin tells me, treat it like an administrative task and pass it to a process serving agency or junior staff....
...Yet by the 1980s, his firm was processing up to 5 per cent of NYSE trading....
...A well-timed sale that results in significant losses for a private equity firm’s longtime investor could prove embarrassing, but that isn’t enough to make it problematic under securities law, said John Coffee...
...Law firm Goodwin has hired Joshua Zachariah as a partner in its M&A practice. He joins the Boston office after working as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco and New York....
...Both come from the private equity firm Court Square. The law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired James Howe as partner in its M&A practice....
...At a stage when the law firm needed to check the client’s identity, Mr Shahmammadli informed the firm that the client was in fact the person that Mr Kulibayev’s lawyers now maintain was the true beneficiary...
...The recent wavering and volatility in global stock markets driven by the spread of the virus is likely to complicate dealmaking, according to Paul Schnell, a partner at law firm Skadden Arps....
...Campbell Steedman and Christopher Skipper have both joined the law firm’s corporate practice while Shibeer Ahmed joins the firm’s financial services division....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Meghan Cocci as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department....
...Debevoise & Plimpton has hired Sidney Levinson as a partner in the law firm’s restructuring group in New York. Levinson was previously co-head of Jones Day’s restructuring practice....
...Law firm Sidley Austin has named 30 new partners. Here’s the full list. Justin D’Agostino will take over from Mark Rigotti as chief executive of Herbert Smith Freehills in May. More here....
...“There are usually no big surprises in letters from shareholders since a CEO knows the business better,” says Yoshinobu Fujimoto, a partner at law firm Nishimura & Asahi, who specialises in shareholder activism...
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