Ropes & Gray Recruits David Harris as M&A Partner in New York
David Harris joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.
Troutman Pepper Locke is using an “ethical wall” within the firm so its lawyers can represent clients on opposing sides of a bankruptcy proceeding, a firm partner told a Texas court.
Former Akin Gump counsel Stanley Woodward, who is working with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, is dissolving the Washington law firm he co-founded.
The Trump administration has appointed dozens of new interim leaders throughout the Justice Department bureaucracy, including moving a federal prosecutor in Washington to head the Antitrust Division and tapping Florida’s solicitor general to run the Office of Legal Counsel.
Veteran antitrust lawyer and former Trump Justice Department official Andrew Finch is heading to Cravath Swaine & Moore.
Bloomberg Law’s Roy Strom spoke with Jennifer Perkins and David Klein, M&A partners at Kirkland & Ellis, the busiest law firm for corporate transactions last year. Kirkland advised on more than $427 billion in global mergers and acquisitions over the year, surpassing rivals like Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, and Freshfields.
David Harris joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.
Peter Leary joined Troutman Pepper Locke’s white collar litigation and investigations practice in Atlanta, the firm announced Tuesday.
Susan Bennett was appointed as chief legal officer and secretary at e2open, the company announced Tuesday.
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Former Akin Gump counsel Stanley Woodward, who is working with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, is dissolving the Washington law firm he co-founded.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
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The SEC’s acting chairman, Mark Uyeda, launched a crypto task force “dedicated to developing a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets”.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will take a more “open-minded” approach to financial technology and digital assets and withdraw proposals that would’ve tightened “hot money” rules and bank board requirements, the agency’s new acting chairman said.
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