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...Kirkland has come to dominate the UK private equity market over the past few years after it hired lawyers including David Higgins and Adrian Maguire from Freshfields....
...Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the lead bankruptcy counsel to Venator, and Jones Day, the lead bankruptcy counsel to Diebold, did not respond when asked for comment....
...Vista Equity Partners is one example; David Breach, a former member of Kirkland’s management committee, joined Vista’s top team in 2014....
...By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis in the US alone reported $6.5bn in the same period....
...Eric Wedel, a US-based Kirkland lawyer, will also be making the move....
...Her application attested to her “disinterestedness” — and still made no mention of her relationship with David R Jones....
...DD predictions for this year: Will David Solomon still be running Goldman Sachs by year-end? We’re leaning no, but you definitely won’t catch him behind a DJ booth anytime soon....
...United Steelworkers president David McCall said last month that his union had “received personal assurances that Biden has our backs” in relation to the deal....
...Jackson Walker frequently represents debtors in the Texas court, usually in tandem with a large national firm — often Kirkland & Ellis — that leads the case....
...Dealmakers become the deal Private equity is in for a massive wave of consolidation, Partners Group boss David Layton told the FT in an interview....
...The Spanish lender hired Morgan Stanley M&A banker David Luwisch, former Jefferies industrials banker David Bradley and former Bank of America financial sponsors banker Andrew Greenwald....
...Kirkland & Ellis restructuring lawyer James Sprayregen is joining the investment and merchant bank Hilco Global as a vice-chair. Hilco had recently added the Lazard restructuring head David Kurtz....
...United Steelworkers president David McCall said last month that his union had “received personal assurances that Biden has our backs”....
...But for project architect David Kirkland, who happens to live next door, it was as much about preserving the site’s biodiversity by providing habitats for insects, birds and small mammals such as mice and...
...Job moves Kirkland & Ellis has hired Alex Amos as a partner in the investment funds group focused on credit funds. Amos previously worked at Macfarlanes....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired tax lawyers David Levy and Brian Senie as partners. Levy and Senie join from Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired Paul Sandler as a partner in the debt finance group. He joins from Paul Weiss....
...One thing to start: Private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, the co-founder of Carlyle Group, has agreed to buy the Baltimore Orioles baseball team alongside an investor group including Michael Arougheti...
...Kirkland “doesn’t feel like a law firm, it feels like a hedge fund . . ....
...The world of blockbuster bankruptcies has been transfixed by the saga of David R Jones, the powerful judge in Houston who presided over many of the biggest Chapter 11 cases of the past decade, as DD’s Sujeet...
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired Adam Shapiro as a debt finance partner from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He joins in New York....
...In the Diebold and Venator cases, Jackson Walker was assisting national firms, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis, respectively....
...Senior lawyers David Thomas and David Rusoff are becoming head of legal for global markets at Citadel’s hedge fund and chief legal officer for Citadel’s market-making arm, respectively....
...Kirkland & Ellis ESG partner Ruth Knox has joined Paul Hastings as a partner in London. Jennifer Ezring has returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking practice, based in New York....
...The courtroom drama behind Apollo’s $500mn loan sale When failed US trucking group Yellow filed for bankruptcy last week, its lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis filed papers in a federal court in Delaware saying...
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