Law Firm Loan Deals Anger Businesses Searching for Missing Money
The deal was too good to pass up for seven companies in search of financing—get a 10-year loan at 6% interest for a 25% payment up front.
Paul Hastings has hired M&A dealmaker Eric Schiele from Kirkland & Ellis, scoring a significant coup for the law firm’s growing deals practice.
Paul Weiss and Fenwick law firms steered the Rocket Cos. plan to purchase Redfin Corp., a deal that lists the real estate listing site at $1.75 billion.
A proposed corporate law overhaul that’s bitterly dividing the country’s top deal lawyers easily cleared its first hurdle Monday, when an influential committee voted to have Delaware’s bar association recommend the changes to lawmakers.
Interim US Attorney Ed Martin has tapped two career prosecutors to lead the office’s unit prosecuting major federal crimes, following the demotion of a half dozen supervisors in the office.

Perkins Coie risks losing clients over President Donald Trump’s threat to terminate federal contracts for companies doing business with the law firm.
The deal was too good to pass up for seven companies in search of financing—get a 10-year loan at 6% interest for a 25% payment up front.
Columnist Rob Chesnut explores how attorneys, who have generally had freedom to choose who they represent without reputational harm, now need to consider the effect that politically-charged matters could have on their brand.
Columnist Andrew Leahey says New Jersey’s angel investor tax credit program should be reformed to exclude carbon capture as a qualifying class of technologies.
Law firm Perkins Coie has tapped attorneys at Williams & Connolly to fight President Donald Trump over an executive order threatening its client relationships.
Paul Hastings has hired M&A dealmaker Eric Schiele from Kirkland & Ellis, scoring a significant coup for the law firm’s growing deals practice.
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Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.



The deal was too good to pass up for seven companies in search of financing—get a 10-year loan at 6% interest for a 25% payment up front.
Columnist Rob Chesnut explores how attorneys, who have generally had freedom to choose who they represent without reputational harm, now need to consider the effect that politically-charged matters could have on their brand.
For months, crypto-loving investors sank billions into leveraged strategies with the hope that Donald Trump would eliminate regulations on their upstart industry and usher in a new world of digital prosperity.
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The Trump administration’s support of crypto currencies could hurt Europe’s monetary autonomy, supporting the case for a digital euro, according to a top EU official.
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