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...Membrillera, who is joining Kirkland, has worked closely with clients such as KKR and General Atlantic....
...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....
...The vulnerability was unusual for Kirkland....
...But the US antitrust chief chalked up smaller wins in the process, DD’s James Fontanella-Khan writes....
...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....
...It has also invested in a company controlled by NBA basketball star LeBron James, acquired NFL rival league XFL with film star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and holds stakes in the company that owns the Red...
...The details of the poaching spree came to light on Monday after DD’s Will Louch, Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan revealed that multiple lawyers from Kirkland’s London and Los Angeles offices are...
...The firm hired finance partner James Boswell from Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy’s former global infrastructure co-head Sara Pickersgill....
...“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....
...Fogelberg joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner and worked with C Street founder Jon Henes, a former Kirkland & Ellis partner....
...Speaking in an interview with the FT, Morgan Stanley’s outgoing chief executive James Gorman struck a more upbeat tone....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired capital markets lawyer Marwa Elborai as a partner in London. She joins from Allen & Overy....
...The latest intel from the coup on London’s legal market, as DD’s Will Louch and James Fontanella-Khan reported last week, is that it happened in the most American setting possible: a Bruce Springsteen concert...
...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....
...Paul Weiss is hiring investment funds lawyer James King from Kirkland & Ellis. King will be based in London. Santander has hired a trio of senior US bankers, Bloomberg reported....
...Kirkland & Ellis has poached Linklaters tax partner James Morgan in London....
...Chief executive James Gorman warned last month that investment banking activities “remain very subdued” and predicted revenues might not recover until 2024....
...Kirkland & Ellis ESG partner Ruth Knox has joined Paul Hastings as a partner in London. Jennifer Ezring has returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking practice, based in New York....
...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....
...Equity partners took home more than $7mn each on average at firms including Kirkland & Ellis and Davis Polk & Wardwell, according to data from The American Lawyer....
...“Todd has great experience in situations at the intersection of finance, politics and regulated industries,” said James Sprayregen, the founder of the restructuring practice at law firm Kirkland & Ellis,...
...“The world has changed and the risk has changed over time,” says Ivan Schlager, a partner at law firm Kirkland & Ellis and a leading adviser to companies navigating the Cfius process....
...A year ago, when the FT’s Alex Barker and Anna Nicolaou and DD’s James Fontanella-Khan wrote that a merger between the Murdoch companies was being considered, the PR operators at News Corp told the FT there...
...She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has hired James Renahan as an M&A and private equity partner in London. He joins from Travers Smith....
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