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...Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the lead bankruptcy counsel to Venator, and Jones Day, the lead bankruptcy counsel to Diebold, did not respond when asked for comment....
...Partners at Kirkland & Ellis have invested hundreds of millions of their own dollars in deals done by the private equity groups they advise, say people with knowledge of the firm....
...Jackson Walker frequently represents debtors in the Texas court, usually in tandem with a large national firm — often Kirkland & Ellis — that leads the case....
...Her application attested to her “disinterestedness” — and still made no mention of her relationship with David R Jones....
...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 plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had abused her. Combs denied the allegations....
...The case is “at the far end of the scale of complexity and difficulty”, John Scott, a barrister for a key Evergrande creditor group represented by Kirkland & Ellis, said in court....
...Answer: write a ghetto bestseller featuring an aggressive black man who can’t spell, title it My Pafology, and submit it under a pseudonym, Stagg R Leigh....
...The beauty industry, however, operates on a more profit-driven R&D scale....
...In the Diebold and Venator cases, Jackson Walker was assisting national firms, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis, respectively....
...by R Can & Sonic Noise. I heard it at a party; it’s a kind of techno dancehall track. It’s so good, so spontaneous....
...“Todd has great experience in situations at the intersection of finance, politics and regulated industries,” said James Sprayregen, the founder of the restructuring practice at law firm Kirkland & Ellis,...
...He’s a brilliant multi-instrumentalist and also sings, so it’s a little bit of jazz and a little bit of R&B. It’s just very smooth, easy and fun to listen to....
...Sidley Austin has hired Kirkland & Ellis’ Nicholas Cassin as partner in its investment funds practice, based in New York....
...“I’ve known quite a lot of fund managers who thought risk was spelt R.E.W.A.R.D,” says Arthur Copple, chair of Temple Bar investment trust....
...Freshfields has lost two of its private equity partners, Keir MacLennan and Vincent Bergin, to Kirkland & Ellis....
...He joins from Kirkland & Ellis. Clifford Chance has hired William Sturman and Kelly Labritz as partners in its funds and investment management practice, based in New York....
...Robinhood gets into UK crypto A scroll through r/WallStreetBets is not what it used to be. The frenzied posting of 2021 has subsided as the retail trading frenzy cools....
...Last week Guangzhou R&F, another developer, was placed in restrictive default by Fitch after extending maturities on its debts. Defaults are expected to continue this year....
...A sell-off in its bonds soon spread to other heavily leveraged developers, including Fantasia and Guangzhou R&F, whose bonds have fallen sharply in recent days....
...Fears over refinancing have hit other developers with dollar debts, including Fantasia Group, which was downgraded last week, and Guangzhou R & F....
...Colin Ellis: Hopefully not!...
...Erin Nealy Cox, former US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in its government, regulatory and internal investigations group....
...Smith & Nephew has not needed to cut staff or use the government’s furlough scheme during the pandemic and R&D spending actually rose by $11m....
...Creditors like Marble Ridge for years had been complaining about how buyout firms with stakes in companies such as Toys R Us and J Crew had been pushing legal and ethical boundaries to avoid having their...
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