Hints and tips:
...Two veteran law professors, Jonathan Lipson and David Skeel have written a paper that concludes that S&C’s “apparent conflicts of interest permeated FTX’s bankruptcy filing and every aspect of the case”...
...Solon Kentas will be Americas head of M&A, while senior Americas M&A banker David Descoteaux will be leaving the firm. Deutsche Bank has named Samuel Kim as chief country officer for South Korea....
...Or as David Frederick of the National Security Agency echoed: “You cannot overstate the critical mass of prepositioning and attack capabilities.”...
...We followed up with a subsequent report about how its partners and managing directors aren’t feeling the love from Goldman chief David Solomon....
...A new version of this is being built in China, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett report....
...Hilco had recently added the Lazard restructuring head David Kurtz. More info about Sprayregen’s hiring can be found here....
...Squire Patton Boggs has hired David Nisbet as a partner in its tax strategy and benefits practice group in London. Nisbet, a private equity and tax fund specialist, joins from Osborne Clarke....
...s new owner Sixth Street Partners, DD’s Sujeet Indap writes....
...Their deaths, including Walter Scott, Thomas Murphy and David “Sandy” Gottesman, have forced Berkshire to bring in a number of new overseers....
...“The rumours of Chicago’s demise are greatly overexaggerated,” said David Casper, chief executive of Chicago-based BMO Harris, the US arm of the Bank of Montreal....
...The strategy sounds like a win-win to DD nonetheless....
...DD hopes for all involved that no bank attempts to margin call Mike Ashley again anytime soon....
...DD’s Sujeet Indap was the first to identify two. In the Diebold and Venator cases, Jackson Walker was assisting national firms, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis, respectively....
...UK private equity group Permira has named David Hirschmann and Ariadna Stefanescu as the unit’s co-heads of credit....
...As David Byrne kinda sing-talked: “Say something once, why say it again?”....
...Apple did its best to make a switch to USB-C charging cables sound exciting....
...DD presumes the mood inside Glencore, which is being advised by Citigroup and Michael Klein, is becoming more optimistic nonetheless....
...DD’s Sujeet Indap examines the pros and cons of working under masters of the universe....
...WeWork director David Tolley will take over as interim CEO. Deutsche Bank has hired Martin Blanquart as managing director to lead Europe, Middle East and Africa technology....
...The company overhauled its governance last November, adding a supervisory board to oversee what remains of the C-suite....
...DD readers need no reminder of the rampant dismissals on Wall Street, some of which should have happened sooner, as Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon told a private gathering of the bank’s executives, the...
...Now, that shift is going into reverse just as relations between the US and China hit a low ebb, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Cheng Leng and Tom Hale report....
...Firms like Lazard are desperate to woo C-suite executives as a means to eventually get those mandates....
...FTX’s A-list entourage As the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles prepare for the Super Bowl this Sunday, DD is reminded of our favourite ad from last year’s game....
...For its 50 per cent non-operated stake in the Sunrise oil sands project, BP will receive C$600mn ($466mn US) with up to a further C$600mn in payments over the next two years....
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