Nothing captured the spirit of the leveraged age for Wall Street law firms quite so much as the private equity 'club' deal. As the name suggests, the deals attracted quite the crowd: lawyers for the consortium of buyers, the underwriters who scrambled over themselves to fund the buyouts and the target company. To celebrate a closing, the lawyers even threw what passes in the corporate legal world as a party: speeches, champagne and the exchange of Lucite trophies.
March 10, 2010 at 07:04 PM
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Nothing captured the spirit of the leveraged age for Wall Street law firms quite so much as the private equity ‘club’ deal.
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