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...Two successive raids on its larger, more profitable rival Kirkland & Ellis have led to Paul Weiss establishing a heavy-hitting team of lawyers capable of advising their private equity clients on deals, debt...
...The revenues of $5bn-plus reported last year by mega-firms Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins were accompanied by high profitability per equity partner, which would suggest scale is a meaningful goal...
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...By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis of the US, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, reported $6.5bn in revenue in 2022....
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...The US firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison raided its larger rival Kirkland & Ellis for several top private equity partners, the kind of people who get paid up to $20mn a year....
...Kirkland & Ellis defied a slump in dealmaking to increase revenues nearly 8 per cent to $6.5bn last year, cementing its position as the world’s highest-grossing law firm at a time when rivals suffered sharp...
...A group of law firms including Kirkland & Ellis were reportedly hit by a ransomware group earlier this year....
...Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, has cut a number of associates across offices in California and Texas after performance reviews, making it the latest firm to slim headcount amid...
...International bondholder advisers Kirkland & Ellis and investment bank Moelis complained in a statement earlier this month about the company’s failure to gain regulatory approval for the restructuring plan...
...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....
...By comparison, Kirkland & Ellis in the US alone reported $6.5bn in the same period....
...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...
...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....
...A former partner at Kirkland & Ellis, he added: “Private equity is a significant business generator for London and any move by (private equity firms) to relocate out of the UK will have a damaging effect...
...Firms that managed to increase revenue last year — including Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s biggest by revenue — turned to areas such as litigation and restructuring....
...Fogelberg joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner and worked with C Street founder Jon Henes, a former Kirkland & Ellis partner....
...equity lawyer Roger Johnson was terminated from his job at the world’s highest-grossing law firm Kirkland & Ellis after it was discovered that he was in talks to join a rival....
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