Hedge Fund Founder Jailed for Bankruptcy Fraud in Connection With Neiman Marcus Bankruptcy

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Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL KAMENSKY, the founder and former manager of New York-based hedge fund Marble Ridge Capital (“Marble Ridge”), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to six months in prison for engaging in fraud and extortion to pressure a rival bidder […]

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Prominent Competition Lawyer Joins Crowell & Moring London Office

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Powered by LawFuel— Peter Broadhurst, a highly regarded competition lawyer, is joining Crowell & Moring’s London office as a partner, expanding the firm’s capability to advise clients on their most complex U.K. and EU competition matters. Broadhurst brings two decades of experience advising companies on competition issues, including merger clearance, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance (acting both for

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Law Firm HFW Expands Greater China Transactional Practice With Shanghai In-House Hires

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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing Greater China transactional practice with the hire of senior partner Brinton Scott and of counsel Danielle Peng in Shanghai. Brinton joins HFW from Winston & Strawn, where he was Shanghai Managing Partner, while Danielle was Legal Senior Director, Asia Pacific, at US automotive systems

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Sullivan & Cromwell Lead Lawyers Feature in Bloomberg’s ‘Leading Questions’ on Law Firm Strategies

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The Vice chairs talk about strategies for law firms to retain clients and more Vice chairs Bob Giuffra and Scott Miller were featured in the latest edition of Bloomberg‘s “Leading Questions,” discussing their work, strategies to attract and retain clients, and how the Firm is handling uncertainties stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. “There are activities that have

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LegalTech – Slaughter & May To Use Visual Structuring Software Across Firm

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Slaughter and May today announces that it will implement StructureFlow’s visual structuring software across the firm. The technology will provide Slaughter and May lawyers with access to advanced technology to produce intelligent digital models of corporate structures and transactions. StructureFlow completed and won the firm’s first Collaborate legal tech incubator programme in July 2019, beating

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Paul Hastings London Office Recruits Four More Lawyers From White & Case

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Paul Hastings has hired more lawyers from White & Case, London after already picking up two partners earlier this year. The four lawyers are from White & Case’s white collar group, lead by Rebecca Copcutt, who joins the firm as a partner. Copcutt’s practice focuses on criminal enforcement action and investigations with a particular interest

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How Kate Sheppard Inspired This Barrister To Set Up A New Chambers Model

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A virtual chambers model is designed to encourage more women into chambers – earlier than otherwise It had to happen – a Chambers or law firm celebrating suffragette Kate Sheppard. (Surely, the even more appropriate Ethel Benjamin Chambers can’t be far away). And now a barrister returning from Europe to New Zealand, Charlotte Griffin, has

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