Hints and tips:
...Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired energy M&A lawyer Tan Lu as a partner in Houston. He was most recently counsel at Vinson & Elkins....
...Spigel was previously an attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Baird has hired Simon Pearson and Justin Prichard in the firm’s European investment banking group, as managing directors....
...It was Farr who sold me a case of a then-unknown Pomerol, Le Pin 1983, for £150 in 1984 when it was weighing rather heavily on Richard Walford’s balance sheet....
...Faced with a choice between the unknown at Barclays and the opportunity to manage the portfolio they’d built at Lehman, many chose the latter....
...At a blind tasting in a line-up of 2005 red bordeaux for Decanter magazine, the owner of fine-wine traders Farr Vintners and I took it for Château Ausone and Pavie respectively....
...That young unknown was Harold Pinter and the script was The Birthday Party....
...Las Cases scores were all over the place so, unknown to us, a second bottle was served alongside the first growths, where it fared no better....
...“Almost anywhere in the world you think doesn’t make wine, does now,” says Simon Farr, deputy chairman and wine strategist at Bibendum Wine in London....
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