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Sidley Picks Off Cravath’s VC Co-Head in Latest Talent Sortie

Sidley Austin continues its raid on rivals by picking up Scott Bennett, co-head of Cravath Swaine & Moore’s venture capital and growth equity and digital assets practices, whose departure marks the latest in a string of losses for the Wall Street firm.

NYC Can’t Afford Big Pensions and Free Buses: Allison Schrager

Cities such as New York and Chicago are in deep financial trouble. Broadly speaking, they have two options: Make the difficult but appropriate choice to raise taxes and reduce the scale of government, or continue to live in a state of denial, increasing their pension obligations while also promising their residents more services.

DExit Debate Flattens the Constituencies That Boards Balance

DExit has exposed a basic truth: Corporate law doesn’t offer a jurisdictional shortcut to either accountability or insulation. No state can guarantee the outcomes for a single constituency in a business. Yet in the current debate over corporate reincorporation, the choice of state has taken on outsize importance.