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...Exclusive: Latham & Watkins is cutting off automatic access to its international databases for its Hong Kong-based lawyers, in a sign of how Beijing’s closer control of the territory is forcing global firms...
...It has since continued to lose younger talent, including Eric Schiele and Jonathan Davis to Kirkland & Ellis; Andrew Elken to Latham & Watkins; and Damien Zoubek to Freshfields....
...Schwartzman, who joins from Latham & Watkins, will be head of private equity in California. European VC Cherry Ventures has promoted Dinika Mahtani to be its first London-based partner....
...In the US, it also recently hired Morgan Stanley’s M&A chair Robert Kindler and energy and infrastructure corporate lawyer Ravi Purohit from Latham & Watkins....
...Latham & Watkins has promoted 34 associates to partner. Smart reads Fink’s last dance Larry Fink built BlackRock into the world’s largest asset manager....
...But the US antitrust chief chalked up smaller wins in the process, DD’s James Fontanella-Khan writes....
...Jennifer Ezring has returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking practice, based in New York. She joins from Cahill....
...The law won’t affect large companies as much as buyout groups, several dealmakers and experts told the FT’s Stefania Palma and DD’s James Fontanella-Khan....
...Staley was Epstein’s private banker while at JPMorgan and made several trips to Epstein’s home on the island of Little Saint James over the years....
...Job moves Morgan Stanley boss James Gorman plans to step down within the next year....
...“There’s as much activity as ever trying to join up Spacs and private companies [but there’s] challenges to getting a significant number of transactions closed,” said Ryan Maierson, a partner at Latham &...
...Latham & Watkins has hired Matthew Friedrich as a real estate partner in Los Angeles. He joins from Winston & Strawn....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Aaron Gardner as a partner in New York. He joins from Arnold & Porter....
...He joins from Raymond James. Smart reads Danger zone Abrdn’s £1.5bn acquisition of Interactive Investor has only dragged the ailing UK asset manager’s share price down further....
...The strategy has been tried and tested by Morgan Stanley chief James Gorman, whose plough into wealth management helped create the valuation gap that Goldman is seeking to narrow....
...Backed by a stronger dollar, a larger domestic market and a nonstop work ethic, firms like Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins are becoming features of the UK market, not sideshows....
...Latham & Watkins has named Sarah Fortt and Betty Moy Huber as partners and global co-chairs of its ESG practice alongside Paul Davies....
...“The biggest issue on our agenda in terms of deal execution is the regulatory backdrop,” Latham & Watkins partner Nick Cline told DD’s James Fontanella-Khan....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Tana Ryan in Los Angeles as a partner in its private equity and M&A department. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Todd Gleason as a partner in its M&A practice, based in Boston. He joins from Hinckley Allen....
...DD’s James Fontanella-Khan reports that $570bn worth of deals have been agreed this year across healthcare, pharma and biotech — 5,316 transactions, to be precise....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Tom Bartlett as a partner. He joins the firm’s London office from White & Case. Macfarlanes has appointed Richard Pepper as a partner on its competition team....
...He will be replaced by James Arculus, who is current head of UK M&A at Deutsche Bank....
...White & Case has added two partners to its global M&A practice in New York: Thomas Christopher from Latham & Watkins, and James Hu from Kirkland & Ellis....
...I’ll say that’s going to be difficult because of this and this,” says Mark Latham, a silversmith in Sheffield, whose clients include Buckingham Palace. The work is tough....
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