Hints and tips:
...“Whichever side prevails at this preliminary stage will feel vindicated legally,” said Chimène Keitner, a professor of international law at the University of California Davis School of Law....
...Jefferies is hiring James Liddy as Emea head of gaming, leisure and lodging investment banking. Liddy joins from Deutsche Bank and was previously at Moelis....
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Lawyers involved in two separate court cases — one brought by an alleged victim of Epstein and the other by the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home — respectively urged a New York judge to compel...
...Paul, Weiss has hired former federal judge Katherine Forrest, most recently a partner at Cravath, as a litigation partner in New York....
...We heard from David Davis. He’s the former Brexit secretary who also backed the agreement....
...Purdue’s law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, warned of a “race to the courthouse” and “ruinous” litigation without a court-approved global settlement....
...“The decisions should be taken by non-operational personnel, ideally judges,” Mr Davis said. “And we certainly shouldn’t give more powers to our police than Americans give to the FBI.”...
...Melissa Davis: This is unlikely....
...The Court of Appeal judges reserved their judgment....
...You be the judge by reading Murad and Arash’s piece from Milan here....
...She joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell. Rothschild & Co has hired Michael Altmin and Navdeep Kalsi as managing directors in North America....
...Mr Raab is a former Linklaters lawyer who worked in the Foreign Office and then as an adviser to David Davis and then Dominic Grieve....
...This hasn’t put off FT Money reader Derek Davis who formed the Davis Family Investment Club with his wife Doreen, three children and their partners 25 years ago by each investing a lump sum....
...John Longworth, chair of Leave Means Leave, a campaign group for a hard Brexit that includes some prominent Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, said it was too early to judge whether Mr Raab had made a “brave...
...“It is no longer a matter for the government to judge; it has been decided by this House, which is a higher authority,” he said....
...We help write the rulebook and have a judge on the court. But doing so without a vote on the rules or a judge will turn us into a quasi-colony.”...
...In the Spectator, James Forsyth says the foreign secretary is becoming “more frustrated” at the way Brexit is going....
...This also explains why private equity companies have been on a deal spree, DD’s James Fontanella-Khan wrote in a recent column....
...You can judge for yourself here. Email: mehreen.khan@ft.com Twitter: @mehreenkhn...
...James Chapman, who recently quit as chief of staff to Brexit secretary David Davis, claims Mrs May’s refusal to countenance any role for the European Court of Justice after Brexit could damage the country...
...The prime minister has repeatedly said that Britain will “take back” its laws in what seems a clean break with European judges....
...James Chapman, former chief of staff to Brexit secretary David Davis, referred to this document in a tweet this week. “Why won’t @DExEUgov publish its analysis of impact of hard Brexit on 50+ sectors?...
...Last weekend, James Chapman, who recently stood down as chief of staff to Brexit Secretary David Davis, made a remarkable attack on what he called Mrs May’s “absolutist” stance on the ECJ....
...Paper trail David Davis left Brussels three hours after he arrived at the European Commission for the opening of the second round of Brexit talks....
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