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...The pair were on the teams responsible for two $10bn-plus fundraisings that closed in 2008, DD’s Eric Platt reports....
...Cooley has named Rachel Proffitt as its first-ever female CEO, succeeding Joe Conroy, who will continue as chair....
...Orrick has added three new hires to its global corporate team: private equity M&A adviser Leah Recht from Kirkland & Ellis and capital markets advisers Edward Dyson from Cooley and Mark Mushkin from Cravath...
...Robin Wigglesworth, Richard Henderson and Eric Platt tell his story here....
...Law firm Cooley has hired Eric Blanchard as a partner in its capital markets practice in New York. He joins from Covington & Burling....
...Cooley has appointed Kevin Cooper as a partner in its M&A practice, based in New York. Cooper joins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz....
...Leonard Jacoby has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s technology transactions group in New York. He was previously at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton....
...Cooley has added former Jones Day partner Ben Shribman to its M&A team in London. Kirkland & Ellis has hired Parimah Hassouri as a partner in the corporate practice group in New York....
...David Boles has joined Cooley as a partner based in the firm’s London office. Boles will join from Latham & Watkins....
...Goldman Sachs and law firm Cooley advised Tableau....
...JPMorgan Chase and law firm Cooley advised Ellie Mae on the transaction....
...She joins from Cooley....
...He joins from Cooley, where he helped found the London office. Ashurst has hired Betty Cerini from the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth and was previously a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf....
...Tom Epps has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s white-collar group in London. He arrives from Brown Rudnick, where he was a partner for six years....
...Cooley has hired Ferish Patel as a partner in the law firm’s Hong Kong practice. Patel joins the legal firm from Gunderson Dettmer....
...Sidley Austin has hired a team of lawyers from Cooley led by private equity partner Mehdi Khodadad in Century City and Washington DC....
...Sidley Austin has hired two private equity partners, Mehdi Khodadad and Joshua DuClos, from competitor Cooley....
...Cooley has hired capital markets lawyer Michael Yu as a partner in the law firm’s Hong Kong office. Yu joins from Sidley Austin where he was a counsel....
...Cooley is expanding into Hong Kong by hiring Will Cai to lead the law firm’s capital markets practice in Asia. Cai was previously a partner at Skadden....
...Morgan Lewis has hired Eric Hwang and Christopher Rose as partners from WilmerHale....
...Law firm Orrick has hired Cooley partner Geoff Willard. Willard joins the firm’s technology practice as a partner in Washington....
...In May, Bortolami opened a show of Eric Wesley’s “burrito paintings” (based on the Mexican food) inside a former Taco Bell restaurant, converted by the artist, in Cahokia, Illinois....
...In fact, the boldest current threat to HFT resides not in Washington, but in New York, from the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman....
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