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...Assured Guaranty declined to comment on whether it had hired Kirkland and PJT, saying “company policy is not to comment on rumours”....
...Membrillera, who is joining Kirkland, has worked closely with clients such as KKR and General Atlantic....
...Kate Stephenson, partner at law firm Kirkland & Ellis, said this change was “intended to maximise value on a sale — by ringfencing the value and enabling potential tax savings, thereby attracting buyers”...
...Rival firms are also copying Kirkland’s approach and pay structures....
...In total over the past month, Paul Weiss has added 13 new private equity partners with at least 10 coming from Kirkland....
...By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis of the US, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, reported $6.5bn in revenue in 2022....
...In August, Paul Weiss hired a group of debt finance lawyers including Neel Sachdev from Kirkland’s London office and a group of US lawyers led by Kirkland partner Eric Wedel....
...The Big Read Industry figures say Kirkland & Ellis’s approach to business is more akin to a hedge fund or an investment bank than a law firm....
...The vulnerability was unusual for Kirkland....
...Morgan Stanley and Kirkland declined to comment. “Everyone was geared up for China business,” said the Asia-Pacific head of investment banking for a western bank....
...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...
...Eric Wedel, a US-based Kirkland lawyer, will also be making the move....
...The company said Kirkland Donald and a team of “outside experts” would provide recommendations to chief executive Dave Calhoun and the Boeing board....
...Departures from the so-called white-shoe firm were once a rarity, but Cravath has been facing stiff competition from high-paying, commercially-minded rivals, and has recently lost star performers to Kirkland...
...Boeing has named a retired Navy admiral, Kirkland H Donald, to lead an independent review of its quality management systems as the US plane maker tries to stem the fallout from a damaging breach in the fuselage...
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...By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis in the US alone reported $6.5bn in the same period....
...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....
...Bruce MacEwen, president of law firm consultancy Adam Smith, Esq, said Kirkland “doesn’t feel like a law firm, it feels like a hedge fund . . ....
...The Kirkland lawyers assumed the pair had received clearance from a superior court or decided that it was not Kirkland’s place to intervene in Jackson’s retention applications....
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...The judgment was “hugely important” and restructuring experts would be “poring over” it, said Kate Stephenson, partner in European restructuring at law firm Kirkland & Ellis....
...Some US firms, most notably Kirkland & Ellis (the dominant legal adviser to the private equity industry), have allowed partners to invest hundreds of millions of their own dollars in the funds managed by...
...According to data from Leopard Solutions, Kirkland added 255 private equity associates between the first quarters of 2020 and 2022....
...Nor has the old guard’s scorn for Kirkland stopped it from adopting similar tactics....
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