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...Paul Hastings has hired Kirkland & Ellis’s John Budetti as a partner in New York and global chair of the investment funds and private capital practice....
...Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has hired ESG finance and investment partner Sukhvir Basran in the firm’s London office. She joins from Hogan Lovells....
...Estée Lauder fired its president John Demsey due to a post he made on Instagram that allegedly included a racial slur and a joke about Covid-19....
...Shargel, who famously won the acquittal of New York mob boss John Gotti in 1990 (he was later convicted on separate charges), also emphasised the importance of credibility....
...In the US, the American Lawyer reported that law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced a number of changes in a firm memo around remuneration....
...Instead, the key man in the negotiations became John Elkann (pictured below), the scion of Italy’s Agnelli family, who saw the opening to go for the full deal and approached Renault’s chairman....
...After that, he served as co-head of US M&A at JPMorgan Chase before leaving to become deputy chairman at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft....
...To avoid sounding too lofty, she adds that the films she has watched the most are Bruce Willis’s outings as unkillable cop John McClane in the Die Hard quintet....
...“The practice of using investor relations or other arm’s length methods for speaking to your largest shareholders is fading fast,” says John Studzinski, global head of Blackstone Advisory Partners....
...john.gapper@ft.com Twitter: @johngapper...
...Gregory Mocek, a former CFTC enforcement director now with the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, said the announcement seemed to be a political reaction to higher gasoline prices....
...The US government has the power to either endorse GM’s plans or push it into bankruptcy and the US Treasury’s decision to hire advisers Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Rothschild...
...“The tax law is very clear,” said David Miller, a tax partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft....
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