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...The session featured testimony from Handler and Robert Pruzan, the other Centerview founder, both of whom were often smooth on the witness stand but appeared flustered at times during cross-examination....
...Brown Rudnick lawyer Robert Stark, who is representing unsecured creditors in the Briggs & Stratton bankruptcy case, said the retention payments were egregious. “This is where we are,” he said....
...We need to change the cycle, writes the FT’s Robert Armstrong....
...Brown Rudnick has hired Neil Foster as European head of technology and global co-chair of the firm’s technology group....
...Brown Rudnick has hired Charlotte Møller and Monika Lorenzo-Perez as partners in the restructuring practice in London. They were both previously at Reed Smith....
...He arrives from Brown Rudnick, where he was a partner for six years. Pinsent Masons has named Nicole Jadeja as a partner in the law firm’s life sciences team based in London....
...He joins from Brown Rudnick, where he was co-chair of the firm's corporate team....
...These days, more and more insurers are willing to underwrite these risks and pricing has settled at about 1-1.5 per cent of cover purchased,” says Robert Bishop, partner at DLA Piper, a law firm....
...“We did a lot of diligence before taking the case on,” said Robert Brownlie, Mr Ceglia’s attorney....
...Its growth was accelerated by acquisitions, such as that of smaller Liverpool rival Cuff Roberts and 30-partner Manchester insurance specialist James Chapman & Co....
...Robert Kirkby, technical director of Jersey Finance, said directors of banks’ Jersey subsidiaries would have a duty not to breach confidentiality, citing case law going back to 1980....
...Robert Wardle, former director of the Serious Fraud Office, said businesses’ long-standing instinct to cover up frauds would have to change amid popular dismay over the economic damage wrought by rogue traders...
...“Given the nature of the banking crisis, and the international nature of financial institutions, you can see where Brussels is coming from on this,” said Robert Wardle, former head of the UK’s Serious Fraud...
...Robert Plant, rock singer. Paul Potts, executive chairman, Press Association. David Roberts, Paralympic swimmer. Finlay Scott, chief executive, General Medical Council....
...“The debtors (Lyondell) without a doubt need the funding, without which they would quickly be liquidated,” Judge Robert Gerber told a packed courtroom in lower Manhattan after an intense hearing that lasted...
...Robert Wardle, who retired as director of the Serious Fraud Office last month, is to become a consultant at DLA Piper, the law firm....
...DLA, the UK firm that recently merged with Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary of the US, has seen its government affairs and communications practice, Upstream, gather momentum recently....
...Price, Senior Advisor, Piper Rudnick, Former President and CEO, National Urban League Penny Pritzker, President, Pritzker Realty Group Michael E....
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