Hints and tips:
...Cleary Gottlieb has hired James Hu as a partner in New York to focus on M&A. He was previously at White & Case....
...Arbitrator Joseph Slights III, a lawyer in private practice who was formerly a Delaware Vice Chancellor, did not ultimately buy any of what the Piccinnis were selling....
...Freshfields hired Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton deals star Ethan Klingsberg in 2019 for a reputed $10mn a year — far higher than its previous pay rules would allow....
...That makes Joseph Dowling the unit’s sole head. Cleary Gottlieb has named 11 partners to its top ranks....
...The group led by Mr Bharara included Joon Kim, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, who was the acting Manhattan US attorney after Mr Bharara, and Jed Rakoff, the Manhattan federal judge who pushed...
...Back in the 1970s, Joseph Heller fans pasted “Yossarian Lives” stickers in their dorms and homes....
...Sachs makes only a passing reference to Fairchild as “a gardener in London”, and attributes the first systematic study of plant hybrids in 1761 to Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter (1733-1806)....
...Eventually Gottlieb landed on the number 22, deeming it more humorous than 18. 4....
...One curveball, suggested by Mitu Gulati, a professor at Duke law school, and Lee Buchheit, a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb....
...Delivered by Cleary Gottlieb on Monday — and freshly tweeted by La Presidenta....
...On Thursday, we reported on a memo by Cleary Gottlieb, lawyers to Argentina in sovereign debt matters....
...Dear Cleary Gottlieb (Argentina’s lawyers): good luck defending this one. From page 7 of Monday’s dead-tree FT — Argentina’s announcement that it is about to default....
...There was also a reference to moving payment mechanisms out of the reach of US courts in Cleary Gottlieb’s recent memo to Argentina about what to do if the case was lost....
...ALL-CAPS PARI PASSU – Dear Cleary Gottlieb (Argentina’s lawyers): good luck defending this one, notes Joseph regarding Argentina’s announcement that it is about to default....
...Which is why it’s also interesting to note Drake and Morgan’s breakdown of which law firms were at work in these two innovations: Risk Factors: Arnold & Porter = 7 Cleary Gottlieb = 2 Shearman & Sterling...
...“Assuming that goes forward I think it will have a big impact on the telecom sector,” said Francesca L Odell, a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton....
...In this installment of Alphaville’s traditionally, if not actually, infrequent podcast Robin, Joseph and Cleary Gottlieb lawyer and sovereign debt maven Lee Buchheit discuss Cyprus, capital controls, a new...
...An embarrassing defeat for Argentina’s lawyers, Cleary Gottlieb. Who now have a new client… Grenada. Standards of subordination The breach≠remedy idea is important....
...FT capital markets correspondent Robin Wigglesworth and FT Alphaville reporter Joseph Cotterill talk to Lee Buchheit, Cleary Gottlieb lawyer and sovereign debt restructuring expert....
...This is interesting to note because Mexico and Paraguay shared a legal advisor – Cleary Gottlieb....
...Until 2005, Mr de Lummen, who studied at Harvard Law School, worked at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, the international law firm, as a mergers and acquisitions associate....
...These three defences could also be seen as Cleary Gottlieb’s trial run for the wave of judgment creditors about to swamp its other client....
...The lawyer writing this letter for Argentina — Cleary Gottlieb’s Jonathan Blackman — has written on the champerty defence in the past, as it happens. (H/T Ramiro Lopez Larroy and Eugenio Bruno.)...
...This time around in the eurozone, the Cleary Gottlieb lawyer was working with critically different raw material: sovereign debt governed for a large part under a law other than the issuer’s, making it far...
...We’ve long been admirers of Lee Buchheit, who helped mastermind the Greek restructuring at Cleary Gottlieb....
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