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...Rather than Thai secret agents, the project was scuppered by international maritime law. The global cruise business is one of the most closely regulated industries on the planet....
...US Supreme Court: The court hears arguments over the legality of Republican-backed state laws in Texas and Florida that constrain the ability of social media companies to curb content on their platforms...
...The Koch brothers, in many ways, created the model that others have since followed....
...The audit firm’s concerns focused on a small subsidiary of Victoria in the north of England called Hanover Flooring, where it identified “risk factors of fraud”, breaches of money laundering regulations...
...Supporters include the likes of Koch Industries, the sprawling US conglomerate, which has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into both Victoria’s common and preferred equity in recent years....
...The law firm surveyed 600 senior legal officers at companies globally with annual revenue of more than $500mn. And within ESG, climate change litigation was the top response, the firm’s survey said....
...Johnson & Johnson, Trane Technologies and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain took the same path as Georgia Pacific and deployed the “Texas two-step”, which was devised by law firm Jones Day....
...New RNC co-chair Lara Trump, the ex-president’s daughter-in-law, told NBC that Republican donors could “opt out” of contributing to Trump’s lawyers....
...Two things to start: Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the elite US law firm that has customarily set the pay standard for its peers, has established a non-equity partner tier, in a departure from its traditional...
..., while many US and UK law firms no longer feel comfortable structuring the agreements....
...J&J hired Jones Day, a Cleveland-based law firm and author of the “Texas two-step”....
...Michela Tindera Jones Day is one of the largest law firms in the country. And Jamie says that Jones Day is the architect of the Texas two-step....
...Gordon, who works out of the law firm’s Dallas office, is a veteran in the world of corporate restructurings....
...One of the biggest proponents of using bankruptcy to handle mass torts is Jones Day, a Cleveland-based law firm that devised the Texas two-step scheme deployed by J&J....
...“It’s almost like a family business now, where there may be less need for the rigidity of a public firm,” said Ann Lipton, a corporate law professor at Tulane University....
...She will be based in the firm’s London office....
...The authors of a business-friendly Texas law used by corporations such as Johnson & Johnson and Koch Industries to shield themselves from billions of dollars of legal claims have said they feel it has been...
...The firm has successfully marketed the Texas two-step to Koch Industries’ manufacturer Georgia-Pacific (which battled its own asbestos claims in 2017) as well as the US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain,...
...Like other companies using this complex legal manoeuvre, J&J turned to Jones Day, one of the most powerful US law firms and an architect of the Texas two-step to help it through the process....
...All four companies are represented by Cleveland-based law firm Jones Day, which designed the complex bankruptcy strategy....
...But since the eldest Koch put the place up for sale in 1999, the trail became harder to follow....
...Not explicitly snubbed by Buffett’s final offer is law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Alleghany’s legal adviser on the takeover....
...Western companies seeking professional advice face fresh difficulties, as international law and accountancy firms themselves shut their local affiliates or at least temporarily decouple them from their global...
...and Ken Griffin and the industrialist Koch family....
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