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...“The pandemic has been particularly hard to parts of Midtown,” said Cravath partner David Perkins, who is also co-head of the firm’s private equity practice and helped orchestrate the move....
...Freshfields has hired David Boles as a partner on its global transactions practice and equity capital markets team in London. He previously worked for Cooley....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired tax lawyers David Levy and Brian Senie as partners. Levy and Senie join from Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
...Cooley has named Rachel Proffitt as its first-ever female CEO, succeeding Joe Conroy, who will continue as chair....
...Seagen chief executive David Epstein told the Financial Times that if the FTC took away the possibility of Big Pharma acquiring biotechs then “funding” and “innovation” would soon dry up in the sector....
...“We are at a point now where [regulation] is not a luxury,” says Professor David Leslie of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI....
...Silicon Valley outfit Cooley, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Goodwin Procter, Davis Wright Tremaine and Shearman & Sterling have all made job cuts....
...Cooley has dismissed more than 100 lawyers and other staff following a dramatic slowdown in its technology practice — just weeks after Elon Musk’s Twitter dropped the Silicon Valley firm....
...She succeeds David Fishman, who will rejoin BofA’s global M&A team, per Bloomberg. Barclays has appointed Daniel Hanna as global head of sustainable finance, based in London....
...Yiming Liu has joined Cooley as a partner in its global capital markets practice. He joins the firm’s Shanghai office from O’Melveny & Myers....
...“The UK government’s legislation for net zero [emissions] by 2050 changed the world,” says, Graham Cooley, ITM’s chief executive, referring to the UK’s 2019 decision to become the first major economy to...
...Swiss bank UBS has named David Roberts to lead its activist defence business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...Cooley has hired Sean Murphy as a partner in its global fund formation practice based in Singapore....
...Blackstone has appointed retired four-star General David L Goldfein, the 21st chief of staff of the United States Air Force, as a senior adviser....
...Cooley has appointed Kevin Cooper as a partner in its M&A practice, based in New York. Cooper joins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz....
...Law firm Cooley has hired Eric Blanchard as a partner in its capital markets practice in New York. He joins from Covington & Burling....
...Leonard Jacoby has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s technology transactions group in New York. He was previously at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton....
...David Boles has joined Cooley as a partner based in the firm’s London office. Boles will join from Latham & Watkins....
...The unravelling of the American global order is explored in Exit from Hegemony (OUP RRP$29.95, February/RRP£22.99, May) by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, who lay out how US global power is changing...
...Sidley Austin has hired two private equity partners, Mehdi Khodadad and Joshua DuClos, from competitor Cooley....
...Among these bleak consequences of global warming depicted in Sir David Attenborough’s recent documentary Climate Change — The Facts, there were also beacons of hope....
...Malcolm Bates, David Mardle, Tim Worden and Adrian Rainey are joining the law firm’s life sciences and technology practice in London....
...Sidley Austin has hired a team of lawyers from Cooley led by private equity partner Mehdi Khodadad in Century City and Washington DC....
...Ryan Naftulin, a partner at the US law firm Cooley, who has worked in Silicon Valley, says that the UK tech sector, however, remains buoyant....
...Cooley, another US firm, set up its London office from scratch in 2015, hiring 20 partners at launch....
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