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...Moelis has hired Robert Mendelson as a managing director focused on credit investment institutions and platforms. He joins from Venor Capital Management....
...This week Grayscale’s lawyers Davis Polk sent a letter to the regulator that did its best to stuff its amusement into legalese....
...(Hall of Davis Polk embraced my baseball analogy, by the way, but thinks it points the other way....
...October 15 2009 also happened to be the day after Bruce Wasserstein, the legendary banker and longtime contemporary of Robert Greenhill, died....
...Och decided “now is not the right time to transition to Jimmy” and hired Credit Suisse executive Robert Shafir instead....
...He joins from Davis Polk....
...But the deal appears likely to be approved by Robert Drain, a New York federal bankruptcy judge, in a court hearing scheduled to begin later this week....
...(Bloomberg) Courtroom drama The fraud conviction of former Barclays executive Robert Bogucki was supposed to be a shoo-in for the US Department of Justice....
...You can read more about the Holy See’s lucky escape from a credit default swap disaster in this story by Miles Johnson and Robert Smith....
...needs to be rethought, needs to be federal and, in real-time payments, needs to truly think about consumer protection,” said Meg Tahyar, co-head of the financial institutions group at the law firm Davis Polk...
...century texts and resolving this policy debate through the courts rather than by fresh thinking for the 21st century,” says Meg Tahyar, co-head of the financial institutions practice at law firm Davis Polk...
...Chief executive of the bank’s US division Michael Roberts will expand his responsibilities to become chief executive of the US, Canada and Latin America....
...Helping Mr Vance to make such judgments will be Carey Dunne, his general counsel, who first went to work at the Manhattan DA’s office in 1984 and, after a long career at Davis Polk & Wardwell, is regarded...
...by industry groups have been addressed, consistent with the spirit of last year’s amendments to the proprietary trading rules,” said Jai Massari, a lawyer specialising in financial regulation at Davis Polk...
...“The rules were very complicated and didn’t really need to be, given the [Dodd-Frank] statute,” said Jai Massari, an attorney at Davis Polk who advises financial institutions about regulation....
...a lot of compliance burdens without being particularly effective in addressing regulatory concerns about overly risky activities,” said Jai Massari, a financial regulations lawyer at the law firm Davis Polk...
...She joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell. Rothschild & Co has hired Michael Altmin and Navdeep Kalsi as managing directors in North America....
...Martin Rogers has been appointed chair of the Davis Polk & Wardwell Asia practice and Li He and Miranda So have been named co-heads of the firm’s Hong Kong office....
...Turano joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell where she was an associate. Smart reads Private equity’s trail of death Private equity is remaking the healthcare industry and the results are shocking....
...McLoughlin was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Sarbajeet Nag has joined Milbank as a partner in the law firm’s European leveraged finance and capital markets group in London....
...“Virtually, every business has been impacted with the greatest exposure on Baby, appliances and food,” Mr Polk said....
...Davis Polk has named Neil Barr as its next managing partner, following the departure of Tom Reid....
...The board has agreed to appoint two new independent directors from Starboard’s slate of nominees immediately, including Gerardo Lopez and Robert Steele....
...US M&A lawyer Ken Lebrun will join Davis Polk as a partner in the Tokyo office. He was at Shearman & Sterling, where he was an M&A partner based in Tokyo....
...Given the conflicts, Roberts, who two years ago poached MS man Robert Eatroff as Comcast’s head of M&A, had to find some more help....
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