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Historic firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz's elite restructuring and finance group is anything but traditional. Rather than separating restructuring and finance, the practice group is a one-stop shop handling everything from acquisition financing and capital structure design to liability management and corporate restructurings, along with dedicated litigation specialists. “It is a relatively unusual structure in terms of having a group that covers the full spectrum from pure finance on one side to restructuring on the other and having litigators working side by side with transactional lawyers,” says partner Emil Kleinhaus. The team's work is proof of the model's effectiveness, with high-profile engagements from the Chapter 11 reorganization of drugmaker Mallinckrodt to X Corp. (formerly Twitter)'s sale to Elon Musk: https://lnkd.in/eAQ3Tt4Z #lawyers #lawfirms #finance #restructuring #legalnews

Adam Hecht's legal career has been devoted to serving the most vulnerable – and, often, that means protecting children who have been abused or neglected at the hands of authority figures. A shareholder at Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, PA, Hecht was first drawn to this area of the law as an Assistant State Attorney in Palm Beach County, Fla., where he prosecuted cases from drug trafficking to child abuse. "Drugs, violent crime – they're awful. But when you see people hurt children who are the most vulnerable and fragile – they need to be protected,” Hecht says: https://lnkd.in/eApXDeUD #legalnews #lawfirms #lawyers

Jeff Davis is a trusted advisor to businesses on the brink of massive change. As co-chair of Moses Singer's Corporate practice group and as leader of its Hospitality Industry practice, he guides M&A transactions from the seller side, representing advertising agencies, PR firms and governmental relations agencies, as well as negotiating hotel management contracts. "Focusing on mergers and acquisitions offers a unique mix of strategy, finance, and legal nuance, all of which I find incredibly engaging," he says: https://lnkd.in/gAnzkeDY #legalnews #lawyers #lawfirms #mergersandacquisitions

D.C. legal titan Brad Bondi has spent the last 26 years representing prominent corporations, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and billionaires in high-stakes regulatory investigations and litigations. From representing Tesla in a headline-dominating SEC investigation of the company's tweets to Princess Cruise Lines in the largest environmental prosecution in history, the Paul Hastings partner has made a name for himself as the lawyer to call if you're facing challenging legal claims in the nation's capitol: https://lnkd.in/eXPtdU6S #legalnews #lawyers #lawfirms #securities

Powerhouse litigators Hannah Ross and Rachel Skaistis would seem to be natural opponents. Partners at two of the top securities firms in the nation, Ross investigates and prosecutes securities cases on the shareholder side at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP. Skaistis, at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, defends major multi-national corporations in high-profile actions. They are both at the top of their respective fields, with Ross securing billions of dollars for shareholders and Skaistis acting as a critical advisor to influential companies and organizations. But not only are the two not enemies – they're sisters. Together, the pair have helped forge a path for women in the historically male-dominated world of securities law. https://lnkd.in/gQ6Pyffh #legalnews #lawfirms #lawyers #securitieslaw

The judge on the 9/11 case granted a prosecution request to delay hearing guilty pleas this session, but he plans to hold a plea hearing before the change in administrations: https://lnkd.in/e9Tp7CRN

Since Toby Butterfield began his legal career 25 years ago, he's been on the front lines of the ways rapidly changing technology – from the rise of the internet, to social media, to AI – is shaping entertainment and IP law. A partner at historic New York firm Moses Singer, he is a trusted advisor to major entertainment companies, film and theater producers, technology companies and other IP holders through a new era: https://lnkd.in/eZHzPfby #legalnews #lawyers #lawfirms #intellectualproperty #entertainmentlaw

When former litigators Michael Rozen and Hassan Murphy met as opposing counsel, they formed a relationship that would eventually take them down new roads. Now, the two are co-managing partners of prominent litigation funding firm TRGP Investment Partners, LP – where their experience as powerhouse lawyers and advisors combines with investment savvy and passion for social justice. Along with funding and advising major corporations, enterprising startups, law firms and more, the partners and their team also recently founded Flashlight Capital Partners, dedicated change-making litigation fund with “the idea of being able to track positive social impact over time while also producing commercial returns for investors": https://lnkd.in/eWHNBYGz #legalnews #lawyers #litigationfunding #litigation #lawfirms

In a major ruling, the military judge in the Sept. 11 case on Guantanamo Bay upheld plea agreements reached with three defendants, overruling the Secretary of Defense's earlier withdrawal. The decision stands to keep deals that take the death penalty off the table: https://lnkd.in/dHj8VJGu

As global co-head of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP’s Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions practice, Jonathan Ashtor's passion for technology fuels some of the nation's most impactful deals, from transactions in M&A tech and bio/pharma to tech-focused private and growth equity investments to emerging technologies. Originally on an engineering path, his tech and legal expertise has driven headline-dominating matters. He's represented IBM in its pending $6.4B acquisition of HashiCorp, Amazon in its $3.9B acquisition of One Medical and AI innovator Nuance in its $19.7B sale to Microsoft: https://lnkd.in/dqnjSsTN #legalnews #lawyers #lawfirms #IP