By Anna Zhang | June 27, 2017
Former Allen & Overy lawyer Jie Tong joins to lead the competition law practice and M&A lawyers Julia Dai and Xikang Wang join from Latham & Watkins and Goldman Sachs, respectively.
By Brian Baxter | June 26, 2017
Japanese auto parts manufacturer Takata Corp. has turned to Weil, Gotshal & Manges and two other firms as it pursues a $1.6 billion sale to Key Safety Systems Inc. The proposed acquirer, advised by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, is owned by China's Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corp. Big legal fees loom on the horizon.
By Anna Zhang | June 26, 2017
One year after opening a Hong Kong office with a niche aviation finance practice, the firm has managed to turn a profit in the highly competitive market.
By Meghan Tribe | June 23, 2017
Blake, Cassels & Graydon has earmarked C$1 million (roughly $756,000) to subsidize the legal costs for 30 to 40 startups in the Canadian technology scene.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | June 22, 2017
Larry Waks is representing an investment group that includes George Clooney on the roughly $1 billion sale of the premier Casamigos Tequila brand to global spirits giant Diageo plc, which is being advised by Sullivan & Cromwell.
By Meredith Hobbs | June 22, 2017
The newly-combined firm pulled off quite a feat this week, mustering 680 partners and top operations people together in London for the firm's first partners' meeting amid record-setting June heat.
By Roy Strom | June 22, 2017
A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Chicago recently approved payments to Kirkland, Jones Day and Proskauer Rose in the Chapter 11 case of casino and hotel giant Caesars Entertainment. The bankruptcy, winding down after nearly two years of proceedings, has brought more than $125 million collectively into those three firms' coffers.
By McKenna Moore | June 21, 2017
Joshua Sussberg, a business finance and restructuring partner at Kirkland & Ellis in New York, is no stranger to distress. But when he was diagnosed last year with a rare form of cancer, Sussberg had a new fight on his hands, and not one easily dispatched in bankruptcy court.
By Rebecca Cohen | June 21, 2017
Leslie Caldwell has become the latest former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division to join Latham & Watkins. The firm announced Wednesday that Caldwell will join its white-collar defense and investigations practice in September. The former partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius will work out of San Francisco.
By Anna Zhang | June 20, 2017
Cyril Amarchand and Shardul Amarchand were local counsel to the country's largest qualified institutional placement.
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