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...It was “conceivable” that China could use it to resupply naval vessels, as already happened with the Chinese-built Hambantota port in Sri Lanka, Ellis added....
...Bonuses reached a peak during 2021, when Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, was offering $250,000 to mid-level lawyers with job offers elsewhere, according to one recruiter....
...Ellis is the fourth co-defendant to strike a plea deal with prosecutors in Georgia....
...Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, poached two partners from magic circle firms in London in the space of a week in September....
...Joe Biden plans to intervene in Nippon Steel’s proposed purchase of US Steel, a move that could threaten the deal and anger Japan, one of Washington’s closest allies....
...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....
...“My sense is that it’s probably a bluff,” said Evan Ellis, professor of Latin American studies at the US Army War College....
...Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, two former Trump campaign attorneys, also pleaded guilty....
...The firm has been on a hiring spree in recent months, poaching private equity partners from Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters and Clifford Chance, and expanding its practices in New York, Los Angeles and London...
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...The team has helped Citi win access to partners at law firms including Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden Arps and Sullivan & Cromwell, who have cashed in on a boom in dealmaking in recent years to take home blockbuster...
...Conservative lawyer John Eastman, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for the Trump campaign, are among those to have already done so....
...charged alongside Trump in the case brought by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis turned themselves in on Wednesday, including former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as Jenna Ellis...
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired capital markets lawyer Marwa Elborai as a partner in London. She joins from Allen & Overy....
...Kirkland & Ellis did not comment on Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. It said many of its clients were “active and growing” in the country....
...María and her children sleep less than six miles from Ellis Island, where millions of mostly European migrants entered the US during the early 20th century....
...By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis in the US alone reported $6.5bn in the same period....
...Joe Biden’s antitrust team began last year with a goal to crack down on tech giants such as Google, Meta and Amazon and get tough on the private equity giants that had come to control vast swaths of the...
...Earlier this year, Covington & Burling hired Jayni Hein, a former White House environmental official under President Joe Biden, and Kirkland & Ellis poached Rhys Davies from DLA Piper for the firm’s global...
...Lawyers representing Eastman, Meadows, Ellis and Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Clark could not immediately be reached for comment....
...Over a bottle of vodka at 10am on a weekday, he and the famed Texas trial lawyer Joe Jamail agreed to a $3bn settlement to end a legal fight between Texaco and Pennzoil....
...After President Joe Biden announced a ban on US investment in some of China’s critical tech industries, the founder of a Shanghai-based semiconductor start-up felt forced to react....
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...Shearman’s equity partners took home an average of $3mn in 2021, far short of the $7mn paid out by rivals including Davis Polk & Wardwell and Kirkland & Ellis....
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