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...Paul Weiss has also poached a team of Los Angeles-based lawyers from Kirkland led by Eric Wedel, and is in talks to a hire a number of other partners from that office, according to people with direct knowledge...
...Lara Trump is married to Eric Trump, the former president’s second son who runs the Trump Organization alongside his brother, Donald Trump Jr....
...The firm also recently announced in a letter to investors that Tom Houlbrooke, who is based in London, will replace US-based Eric Todrys as head of global commodities....
Bank’s Petershill Partners unit reaches deal that values investment firm at more than $1bn
...In August, Paul Weiss hired a group of debt finance lawyers including Neel Sachdev from Kirkland’s London office and a group of US lawyers led by Kirkland partner Eric Wedel....
...Eric Fanning, the chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association, the biggest lobbying group for US defence companies, described the legislation passed this week as a “much-needed injection of funding...
...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....
...The vulnerability was unusual for Kirkland....
...The trade at hand: a sale of the healthcare technology company Cotiviti for up to $11bn, people involved in the matter told DD’s Eric Platt and Antoine Gara....
...But the US antitrust chief chalked up smaller wins in the process, DD’s James Fontanella-Khan writes....
...Eric Wedel, a US-based Kirkland lawyer, will also be making the move....
...The British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who was at the time moonlighting as The New Statesman’s jazz critic, was unmoved, finding musicians like Coleman to be “cut off from the common listeners among...
...Berkshire had struck a deal about six years ago to acquire an interest in Pilot Travel Centers, founded by billionaire James “Big Jim” Haslam II, patriarch of a powerful Tennessee family....
...The pair were on the teams responsible for two $10bn-plus fundraisings that closed in 2008, DD’s Eric Platt reports....
...No saviours,” Eric Holder, the former US attorney-general under Barack Obama, wrote on X....
...Round on the Links The link was McDonald’s food and drink Eric Pickles Patty Hearst Who Moved My Cheese?...
...Andrew Amer, a lawyer for New York attorney-general Letitia James, repeatedly pressed Eric Trump to admit that he was aware of the annual “statement of financial condition” outlining his father’s wealth...
...Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump, is arguably the most involved member of the former president’s family in his latest campaign for office, though Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son, has also played...
...Trump, Donald Jr and Eric, also testified they had relied on the expertise of their outside accountants when signing off on financial documents....
...Kirkland & Ellis restructuring lawyer James Sprayregen is joining the investment and merchant bank Hilco Global as a vice-chair. Hilco had recently added the Lazard restructuring head David Kurtz....
...DD’s Antoine Gara and Eric Platt revealed last week that private equity firms are increasingly borrowing against a fund’s investment assets to help pay down the debts of struggling individual companies....
...Baker McKenzie has hired Eric Schwartzman as a partner in San Francisco. Schwartzman, who joins from Latham & Watkins, will be head of private equity in California....
...He is to be followed by his brother Eric, his father and sister Ivanka next week....
...“We are very surprised by the developments,” said Neil McDonald, a restructuring lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis who represents a group of offshore creditors, outside the court after the hearing....
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