The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Roe | April 9, 2024
"They didn't care because they were making too much money off of it, and now it's especially sad that they're finding yet another way to make money off of the very problems they helped create," Yale Law School professor John Morley said of the corporate lawyers who participated in the frenzy.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | April 9, 2024
Avi Luft, a financial restructuring of counsel at Paul Hastings, has joined Akin as a partner in New York.
By Dan Roe | April 8, 2024
Daniel Shamah has joined Cooley's New York office as a partner.
By Dan Roe | March 21, 2024
Judge John Dorsey ordered the appointment of Patterson Belknap of counsel Robert Cleary to conduct a 60-day investigation of the FTX collapse.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | March 18, 2024
Kirkland & Ellis seeks to be dismissed from a federal lawsuit filed against former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones that is connected to an undisclosed romantic relationship between Jones and Elizabeth Freeman, a former partner in Texas' Jackson Walker.
By Andrew Maloney | March 7, 2024
Clifford Chance joins Morrison Foerster, Seyfarth Shaw and Selendy Gay in making restructuring hires in recent days.
By Dan Roe | March 5, 2024
Collectively, the firms took on nearly 300 debtor retentions in two jointly administered bankruptcies.
The Legal Intelligencer | Analysis|News
By Amanda O'Brien | February 29, 2024
This is the fifth consecutive year in which net income growth surpassed 8.5%, coinciding with the course of the firm's five-year strategic plan.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 27, 2024
A former CEO alleges Jackson Walker and Kirkland knew of a judge's relationship with a partner "and used it to profit" by bringing tens of millions of dollars through the "Jones'-Freeman conduit."
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Roe | February 27, 2024
Class-action plaintiffs and an appellate judge are curious about the regulatory and M&A work Sullivan & Cromwell did for FTX before the exchange collapsed.
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