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...Davis Polk has appointed Raul Yanes to become chair of its white collar defence and investigations practise. He was most recently at Morgan Stanley and is a former senior White House official....
...Tony Williams, a consultant who was managing partner at Clifford Chance when it merged with American firm Rogers & Wells in 2000, said: “The magic circle have been challenged in the last decade by the strength...
...Shearman’s equity partners took home an average of $3mn in 2021, far short of the $7mn paid out by rivals including Davis Polk & Wardwell and Kirkland & Ellis....
...Equity partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell took home $5.6mn in profit shares, 21 per cent less than the previous year, while Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft partners’ profit share plunged 30 per cent....
...“It’s the Polk County Science Building, one of his last buildings. It was falling apart and was going to be demolished when I discovered it,” says McAslan....
...Dechert has hired William Robertson as a partner in New York as part of the firm’s expansion of its private equity and private credit groups. He joins from Davis Polk....
...Purdue’s law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, warned of a “race to the courthouse” and “ruinous” litigation without a court-approved global settlement....
...Rival Davis Polk & Wardwell immediately topped that and Milbank and other firms then matched the higher figure....
...A couple of years ago William Haseltine, a successful serial biotech entrepreneur, co-founded a start-up called Constructive Biology....
...The trio replace William Barron, who previously held both the roles....
...Tethyan chairman William Hayes said a “negotiated settlement” was a possibility....
...Or as William Boal, an economics professor at Iowa’s Drake University, put it: “People have jobs. They’re just not great jobs.”...
...Davis Polk has named Neil Barr as its next managing partner, following the departure of Tom Reid....
...James K Polk is denounced for triggering a war with Mexico to pull off a giant land heist covering Texas, New Mexico and California....
...“The [commission] sought to project an air of confidence,” said Andrew Polk at Trivium, a Beijing-based consultancy....
...You can find the proposed rule here, and a nice summary from Davis Polk here....
...Legal advisers at Slaughter and May and Davis Polk & Wardwell will be paid £9m and public relations firm Brunswick will receive £4m....
...Advisors for this transaction include: Centerview Partners and BofA Merrill Lynch as financial advisors to Heinz and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as legal advisor to Heinz....
...“Frankly, they could get away with it,” says Tony Williams of Jomati, a legal industry consultant....
...The SEC contacted BHP in August 2009, prompting the miner to open its own investigation headed by New York law firm Davis, Polk, and Wardwell....
...However, a donation of $50m in 2006 from William Polk Carey, founder of a large US real estate company and a Hopkins trustee, paved the way for the opening of the new school....
...– at least until 2006 – were driven, according to Karl Rove, then the president’s political strategist, by the desire to produce a Republican ascendancy that would rival the one fashioned by President William...
...Kimberly Polk sits on a park bench with the New Orleans skyline visible across a stretch of water behind her....
...“People are coming at the Russell from a number of angles,” said William Strazzullo, chief market strategist at Bell Curve Trading....
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