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...This includes co-founders Donald Mackenzie and Steve Koltes both bowing out and CVC expanding into new investment strategies such as infrastructure....
...Among them: Simpson Thacher; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Cravath; Debevoise & Plimpton; Freshfields; and Akin Gump....
...News round-up Wall Street megadonors warm to Nikki Haley as their anti-Donald Trump Republican (FT) Walmart tumbles 8% on cautious holiday outlook for consumer spending (FT) Hedge fund Schonfeld to cut...
...The US Senate approved a $95bn bill that includes aid to Ukraine, but the proposal risks languishing in the House of Representatives because of Donald Trump’s opposition....
...Other firms have refused to work for anti-abortion groups or opioids manufacturers, while former US president Donald Trump and his associates have been turned down by numerous elite outfits....
...Some 97 per cent of the hundreds of responses to regulators’ consultation expressed concern about some of the measures, according to analysis from law firm Latham & Watkins....
...Or, as Latham & Watkins partner David Walker put it: “There’s a lot of headwinds.”Global M&A fell 38 per cent to $1.3tn in the first half of the year, the lowest deal volume since the start of the pandemic...
...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...Though the original Q has been tracked down to the home of a US expat called Ron Watkins living in Manila, it now doesn’t seem much to matter who he is....
...Jeffrey Rosen, the former US acting attorney-general under former president Donald Trump, has joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore as of counsel in Washington....
...Davis Polk has poached M&A partner Thomas Malone and finance partner David Penna from Latham & Watkins. They are based in New York and Washington, respectively....
...PJT Partners has hired Latham & Watkins’ former global co-chair of M&A Mark Gerstein as a senior adviser....
...Linklaters has hired Latham & Watkins’ John Guccione as a corporate partner in London....
...Trump’s hedge fund troubles Ever since Donald Trump struck a deal to take his social media company public through a Spac, a number of hedge funds have been waiting to cash in on a giant arbitrage....
...Now with Ian, especially if this storm leads to litigation, it makes me wonder if the market can sustain this,” said Nancy Watkins, a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman....
...After all, they are the perfect odd couple for it: Sean (RJ Cyler) a hardcore thrill-seeker, his buddy Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) bookish and morally diligent....
...Joe Kronsnoble, a partner at Latham & Watkins, said investment banks were “very interested” in the forthcoming Treasury guidance, although he cautioned that the department or the Internal Revenue Service...
...Noah Phillips, one of two Republican commissioners at the US Federal Trade Commission appointed by former president Donald Trump, has quit the agency to return to co-lead his former firm Cravath, Swaine...
...Latham & Watkins has hired Alejandro Ortiz as an M&A and private equity partner in Madrid. He joins from Linklaters....
...The prince, the Donald and the Spac Much has been written about Digital World Acquisition Corporation, the blank-cheque company looking to take a Donald Trump-backed social media platform public, since...
...But it was left to Fiona Hill, the former US National Security Council member who gave explosive testimony at Donald Trump’s first set of impeachment hearings, to frame the question as a test of companies...
...Latham & Watkins has named Caroline Blitzer Phillips as a partner in its M&A and private equity practices, based in New York. She joins from Vinson & Elkins....
...The return of Jones Day partners began in earnest in April 2019 when Don McGahn came back to the 2,500-lawyer firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, after serving as Donald Trump’s first White House counsel....
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