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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....
...Only James Streeter, who can breathe life into the thinnest character, convinced as the heartless Zuniga....
...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....
...And, because anxiety is contagious, so do the worlds of her sister Sarah (Michaela Watkins) and Sarah’s actor husband (Arian Moayed)....
...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....
...James Edwardes Jones, analyst at RBC, said consumer staple groups “almost never cut prices” and were more likely to boost promotional activity than actually drop the price of goods....
...Jennifer Ezring has returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking practice, based in New York. She joins from Cahill....
...James Ball is a tech-savvy writer who worked with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks before it became a Moscow data dump....
...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....
...The only real passion on display was from James Streeter’s dominant Von Rothbart, “conducting” the skein of swans with his massive wings and looming over Odette with a sickening sense of ownership....
...Job moves Morgan Stanley boss James Gorman plans to step down within the next year....
...The audio version is read by an ensemble of actors — James Goode, Jilly Bond, Kit Griffiths, Sean Barrett and Sharon Eckman — and the interplay of their voices as they weave these tales about a character...
...Last of the three, Jonathan Briggs’s Concerto for Piano and 10 Instruments, played with authority by Huw Watkins, mixed jazz influences and flamboyant cinematic romance in movements such as “Noir” and a...
...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 & Watkins...
...James Logan, UK commercial director at Refresco, which supplies water, fruit juice and fizzy drinks to supermarkets across Europe, agreed the cost increases were across the board....
...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....
...A fine quartet of singers — Ruby Hughes, Jess Dandy, James Gilchrist and Hank Neven — played the four individuals caught in the mystery’s web....
...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....
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