Hints and tips:
...Paul Weiss also hired Morgan Stanley’s M&A chair Rob Kindler in June. The firm has a relatively small presence in London, employing more than 30 lawyers, according to its website....
...Garrison is the centre’s director, helping decide where bets are placed....
...I’m still thinking about his wife, so I say the Cocos must be a wonderful place to raise children....
...Morgan Stanley rainmaker Rob Kindler is leaving to join elite law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison after 17 years with the Wall Street investment bank where he advised on some of the largest-ever...
...The US’s Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq was targeted by rockets earlier this week as well as the Al Tanf garrison in Syria....
...Traore knew right away that she wanted to mount a booth pairing work by Falquez and Garrison-Msingwana. “I’m interested in how both artists deal with drapery,” she says....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: US retail and food sales are expected to have risen in July despite pressure from increased interest rates and inflation....
...(I’m reminded of Garrison Keillor’s 2006 flaying of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s book on America.)...
...Now, it appears that Johnson’s departure was part of a high-stakes international raid by US law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison on its larger peer....
...“I’m always uncomfortable when I’m asked in any context — it usually happens in the drug context — to sentence the low man on the totem pole while the big guy goes free,” McMahon had said while handing down...
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, some housekeeping. There will be no Saturday edition of Europe Express next week. Normal service will resume on Saturday January 7....
...To talk about why Snake Island is so important, I’m joined by our defence and security correspondent John Paul Rathbone. Hey, John Paul. John Paul RathboneHi, Marc....
...According to Bloomberg data, Freshfields was one of the top 10 legal advisers on US M&A last year, working on $164bn of transactions....
...“To suggest that we don’t need this connection between Hung Shui Kiu and Qianhai, I’m afraid you are going against public opinion,” said former chief executive Lam....
...He added: “I’m here to declare that we’re not part of the chickenshit club,” quoting the title of the Jesse Eisinger book on the DoJ’s failure to prosecute business executives....
...“I’m sitting next to a German,” said the Swede, Anders Mårtensson, “and he doesn’t understand them either.” Up on the top of Gotthard I broke my journey, having had enough passes for one day....
...In 2016, deals superstar Scott Barshay abandoned ship for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for a deal worth $10m a year....
...While I marvel at their athleticism, I’m in awe of their mental strength, the precision, the training and the enormous self-sacrifice....
...In 2016 M&A star Scott Barshay jumped ship to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for a deal worth more than $10m a year....
...“I’m very sad, not only for me but for all the people.” On the betrayal of the 2019 revolution’s ideals felt by many Sudanese, she added: “I feel very angry.”...
...Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Damien Zoubek as its new co-head of US corporate and M&A, based in New York....
...When my husband and I moved to New York City 25 years ago, we bought a small house in Garrison, on the east of the river, so I could garden....
...“I’m not saying people will never go back to gyms — they will — but the pendulum is never going to swing all the way back,” says one investor....
...I like jazz but I’m not an aficionado by any stretch. I don’t know how to listen to it the way I know how to look at a painting, to recollect my breath and recalibrate myself....
...“I’m sorry, you’ve got this completely wrong,” he said. “The way we’re going to do this is the way Colonel Alderson’s described.” That cultural transition was difficult to complete....
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