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Brand versus brawn – can CC get back in the funds game?
While the initial response to Weil Gotshal & Manges’ daring four-partner raid on Clifford Chance’s (CC’s) private equity funds team focused on what the move meant for Weil Gotshal’s UK ambitions, as the dust settles the wider significance for ...
23 Jun 2011 | 00:00 | 
Swings of the pendulum - the buyout market continues to confound expectations
We often hear that a particular position is or is not 'market'. Said with enough conviction it can sound true; but what is or is not market is usually only the result of a particular set of factors coming into play in any given transaction. The single...
29 Mar 2011 | 05:58 |
Commentary: City climate offers Weil a chance to shine in London
Moments in the sun don't come round very often, especially in an English summer, but Weil Gotshal & Manges - partly through luck, partly through design - finds its London office currently basking in one of the few rays of light in the Square Mile. ...
04 Aug 2009 | 09:29 |
Target practice
On 26 June, 2007, Barry Colvert arrived at the midtown Manhattan office of Cooley Godward Kronish. Colvert is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who has given polygraph tests to Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, Soviet spy Aldrich Ames a...
13 Nov 2008 | 03:55 |
Insolvency teams getting restless as predicted bankruptcies fail to appear
Let us hark back to the end of 2006 - the Dow is soaring, credit is flowing freely, and default rates are at historic lows. Far from cursing its luck, the corporate restructuring group at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is running at full tilt. Part...
19 Jun 2008 | 04:15 |
Editor's Comment: No guarantees
With slower markets, 2008 will be the year when law firms start thinking again in earnest about partner and team recruitment. After several years when the biggest challenge was getting enough associates to staff the deals, minds are turning once more ...
07 Feb 2008 | 05:40 |
US firms in London: Friends in the City
Almost half the respondents to this years' US firms in London survey would consider a tie-up with a UK firm. Helen Mooney reports on London's enduring appeal
20 Sep 2007 | 02:00 |
Asia: Three's the charm
With bulging workloads and a dearth of suitable lawyers, why are law firms stretching themselves to have a presence in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong? Dominic Carman speaks to China's top lawyers about the three-office debate
30 Aug 2007 | 02:00 |
Editor's Comment: Discordant success
Weil Gotshal & Manges' City practice seems more contradictory by the day. Reinforced by a productive team recruited from Lovells last year, an office with partner talent to spare has chalked up an impressive run of mandates. Instructions from Terra Fi...
05 Jul 2007 | 06:20 |
Wages of spin
Legal Week noted recently that UK and US legal markets were converging. And with London firms handing out substantial rises for assistants this year, that process has taken a considerable step forward as the gap between New York and City 'rates' narro...
21 Jun 2007 | 06:57 |
Marco Compagnoni: Sold, to the best prepared bidder
Anyone following the M&A market will have noticed the success rate of private equity players in M&A auctions. This is not necessarily because a private equity house is prepared to pay more - there are a number of reasons why the auction process tends ...
22 Mar 2007 | 00:03 |
Commentary: US City results: for whom the bellwether tolls
If there is one theme emerging from the figures for US firms' London outposts in 2006, it is just how divergent this amorphous group has become - particularly the more established players. On paper, 2006 should have been a great year: markets booming,...
08 Mar 2007 | 01:48 |
Deal Lawyer of the Year Winner: Mike Francies, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Mike Francies appears to be not only the face of Weil Gotshal's City team but half the body as well
07 Dec 2006 | 00:00 |
Commentary: Barclay brothers are just the ticket for Weil in the City
Weil Gotshal looks to add more big-ticket deals to a steady stream of mid-market work
28 Sep 2006 | 01:00 |
Insolvency: Bankruptcy blunder
The EC's Insolvency Regulation requires judges to decide where a company's main interests lie and, as a result, under which jurisdiction's laws proceedings should be conducted - but this has led to inconsistent results, writes Chris Mallon
28 Sep 2006 | 01:00 |
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