Hints and tips:
...Nippon Steel has hired US lobbying firm Akin Gump, focusing its energy to win the backing of the United Steelworkers....
...Akin Gump has hired Bill Brady as a partner in its special situations and private credit practice in New York....
...UK private equity group Permira has named David Hirschmann and Ariadna Stefanescu as the unit’s co-heads of credit....
...If anything, he is a naïf closer to the hero of Forrest Gump, whose scribe Eric Roth co-wrote the Killers of the Flower Moon screenplay with Scorsese....
...It takes a moment to process his actual face, familiar from myriad roles over four decades (Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, the list is huge)....
...Then there’s David Falk (Chris Messina), Michael Jordan’s DC-based superstar agent, who would fit right in on Wall Street....
...Law firms have to give up their past,” says David Beveridge, managing partner at Shearman & Sterling....
...As befitting an author who claims he reserves all his writing for the month of March, Dubois’ tone is often whimsical (his 2004 novel A French Life was seen as a Gallic take on Forrest Gump)....
...When PG&E failed to develop a plan, Akin Gump put together a proposal to pitch to the judge....
...“[Biden] set out a marker,” said Arshi Siddiqui, a partner at Akin Gump and a former Democratic congressional aide....
...David Bullwinkle, Kodak’s chief financial officer, told investors on Tuesday that the company’s “controls were inadequate with regard to the timely input and verification of master data updates for equity...
...Cravath, Swaine & Moore has recruited David Portilla, a former senior policy adviser to the US Treasury, as a partner in its New York office....
...K&L Gates has added David Owen as counsel to its asset management and investment funds practice. Owen joins from Allianz Global Investors....
...This David-buys-Goliath deal had its very own special slingshot: property finance....
...The list includes JPMorgan vice-chairman Noah Wintroub, Goldman chief executive David Solomon and partner Kim Posnett, as well as Skadden partner Ryan Dzierniejko....
...Credit Suisse appointed Andy Lipsky and David Wah as co-heads of Investment Banking and Capital Markets in the Americas....
...Uber, under the guidance of David Plouffe, who was Barack Obama’s campaign manager, has worked hard to present a more grown-up image....
...Mr Xia’s first move after his planned acquisition was announced, was to tweet a picture of Forrest Gump, the dim-witted but athletically gifted film character of the 1990s, at Mr Cameron....
...Case: the Concerned Public (taxi drivers, OAPs and media freelancers with Twitter accounts) versus Serious Fraud Office boss David Green....
...Several US law firms, including Akin Gump, pay their London-based associates salaries starting at £100,000, matching the New York rate....
...There was panic in the streets and trepidation in the air; yet David’s wholesome lyrics urged us to remain cheerful: “But there’s one thing I know/The blues they send to meet me/Won’t defeat me/It won’t...
...“Virtually everything in the case was unprecedented,” says David Heiman, a partner at Jones Day, the lead restructuring counsel to the city....
...David Haigh, who denies the allegations, has been in custody for three days. A friend, who asked not to be named, said: “David has done nothing wrong or illegal....
...A&O is the second big law firm to come under fire from this judge, following his criticism of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the US firm advising Alba, the Bahrain aluminium company....
...One A&O partner, David Esseks, a former assistant US attorney, allegedly “misled” Akin Gump as to the meeting’s purpose, while Peter Watson, one of A&O’s most senior litigators, pressed Mr Kooheji by suggesting...
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