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...In today’s newsletter: Kirkland & Ellis confronts a dealmaking slowdown The PE dealmaker who’s everywhere right now KKR jumps on a deal Carlyle snubbed QE+PE= K&E Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis has...
...Evercore’s chief executive John Weinberg has his own history with Goldman....
...Meanwhile his accomplice, Ellis, went to jail....
...Fogelberg joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner and worked with C Street founder Jon Henes, a former Kirkland & Ellis partner....
...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....
...The couple have bought the Wolff Residence, which he describes as “one of the smallest” houses by John Lautner....
...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....
...Grew will replace longstanding chief Luke Ellis in September, and former Capital International executive Anne Wade is taking over from investment banker John Cryan as chair....
...I also give out copies of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing like the Bible. There’s a brilliant chapter about being naked and the nude....
...Highlights include Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Love Letter (on shuffle), set to the music of James Blake; and Play Time, with a free-jazz score by Solange Knowles....
...‘I have f***ing killed it’ Former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack may have led the investment bank into a crisis, but he has few regrets....
...The Lock-Up by John Banville (Faber/Hanover Square Press)The third title in Banville’s crime series sees the return of Detective Inspector St John Strafford to investigate the suspicious “suicide” of a young...
...A New Orleans bounce is in the mix — woodwindist and flautist John Ellis and keyboardist Glenn Patscha were busy Crescent City musicians in the 1990s; guitarist Adam Levy met the duo soon after they moved...
...Now, you can go and get a gilt or a cash account,” says Will Ellis, head of specialist funds at Invesco....
...Job moves Citigroup’s James Fleming is now the sole head of its banking, capital markets and advisory business in the UK and Ireland, per Financial News....
...Kirkland & Ellis has been hired by both companies as a legal adviser. It’s a good bet more restructurings are in store....
...Colin Ellis: Hopefully not!...
...“It’s nearly everything one might expect from a professional kitchen,” says James Knappett of two Michelin-starred Kitchen Table in London, “without the rat.”...
...PJT also hired John Allan, former chief executive of logistics company Exel, as a senior adviser based in London, according to an internal memo....
...The episode with Mark Gatiss is lovely – he talks about Aubrey Beardsley and John Minton. Laura Gonzalez, interior designerOù est le beau?...
...A relationship — an interspecies one this time — is at the heart of Axiom’s End (Titan, £8.99) by Lindsay Ellis....
...White & Case has added two partners to its global M&A practice in New York: Thomas Christopher from Latham & Watkins, and James Hu from Kirkland & Ellis....
...As John Ellis, a former Fox consultant, wrote last year: “the audiences programme the network, not the other way around”. Viewed as a commercial enterprise, the contrast is more stark....
...Among them are Blue Ridge Capital founder John Griffin, former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz, Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman and the rapper Jay-Z....
...Extraction, Alvarez & Marsal and Kirkland & Ellis did not respond to requests for comment....
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