Hints and tips:
...In a multi-stage process that first involved a change of the existing group’s legal structure, the firm then carved out its highly profitable consulting, tax and M&A advisory operations through an asset...
...When John Quinn, the renowned Los Angeles-based lawyer and art collector, joins our Zoom call, I’m surprised to find he’s in his car. Has he been working from there?...
...John Quinn, chair of trial firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, said clients “under pressure” were asking “can you help us out?”...
...“Well, I’m a fighter, and I’m scrappy, and now we’re the last ones standing.”...
...The company has not yet played ball, according to Neumann’s lawyers at Quinn Emanuel....
...The group’s shareholders should gear up for a fight with Silver Lake and Emanuel, Lex argues....
...Alex Spiro, a partner at Quinn Emanuel and close friend of Elon Musk, is acting on behalf of the entrepreneur....
...And one other big thing: US private equity group Silver Lake is considering taking private Ari Emanuel’s talent agency Endeavor Group in a deal that would be one of the year’s largest buyouts....
...Emanuel explained his reasoning for the deal when he spoke to the FT. We’re also reading . . ....
...Join us on October 17 at the Biltmore Mayfair in London as we gather the biggest names in M&A, private equity and corporate finance. DD subscribers get a special discount....
...I’m a cog in that peace....
...Britt Harris, who famously lasted just five months running Ray Dalio’s hedge fund Bridgewater in 2005, is stepping down as chief executive of the $66bn University of Texas/Texas A&M University Investment...
...Moelis & Company has appointed Citigroup’s Jugjeev Duggal, an M&A adviser focused on clean technology and related sectors, as a managing director in New York....
...Even the M logo has been repurposed into a love heart. “We wanted to propose McDonald’s in a luxury, high-fashion context.”...
...Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Pallas Partners are among the law firms representing US bondholders who intend to fight the decision....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
...“I’m just going to go to lawyers . . . I’m dying to talk to other people about it. I’m dying to talk to the press.”...
...Law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan said on Monday that it’s in talks with a large block of debtholders about possible legal action....
...It was mostly assembled in the early parts of the year when soaring interest rates and a spreading US regional banking crisis put M&A markets on ice....
...But I’m not sure it’s more complicated....
...Because I’m a regional policy nerd, the part of Jeremy Hunt’s March Budget speech that caught my attention was not about pension rule changes, but the promise of “12 potential Canary Wharfs” outside London...
...Of Los Angeles, he says that the move is about the next generation of buyers: “I’m meeting more and more developing collectors there than in New York: at the moment, LA has it going on.”...
...“This could be the end of that market for the foreseeable future,” said Jim Leaviss, chief investment officer of public fixed income at M&G....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: We get job openings data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and, separately, the latest on US manufacturing activity....
...The union launched a strike in 2012 against then-mayor Rahm Emanuel that set the template for strikes by teachers across the US over the next decade....
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