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As AI Homogenizes Big Law, Things Will Get Brutal at the Top
According to The Global Lawyer, Gen AI will define what elite legal services are and, in the process, make hiring and differentiation more competitive.
Read MoreIn the President’s Battle With Big Law, Has Leverage Shifted?
Big Law is not in the same place as it was this spring, notwithstanding the President’s agreements with nine law firms and a menacing EEOC investigation.
Read MoreWeil Gotshal Adds New Global ITC, IP Chair After Recent IP Partner Laterals
The most recent in a series of IP-focused hires, Weil Gotshal & Manges announced last Monday the appointment of a new worldwide chair for the firm’s International Trade Commission and cross-border intellectual property rights enforcement practices.
Read More‘More Clients Push Back’ on Soaring Rates, Even as They Need Outside Counsel Guidance More Than Ever
The suffering legal departments were already experiencing from hiring more outside counsel to help them negotiate the unstable environment of tariffs, geopolitical tension, and regulatory uncertainty was made worse by law firms’ record hourly rate increases in the second quarter.
Read MoreMayer Brown advises Wing Tai Properties Limited and Manhattan Holdings Limited on building upgrade and lease regear of 30 Gresham Street, London
In an extensive building renovation and lease renewal involving multiple leases covering more than 350,000 sq. ft. NIA of office space at 30 Gresham Street, London, Mayer Brown has acted for the landlord, 30 Gresham Street Limited, a joint venture of Wing Tai Properties Limited (a Hong Kong publicly listed company SEHK stock code: 369)…
Read MoreAssurant $300 million senior notes offering
Davis Polk represented Assurant, Inc. in an SEC-registered offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 5.550% senior notes due 2036. Barclays Capital Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC were the joint book-running managers for the offering of the senior notes.
Read MoreDavis Polk advised the representative of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A / Regulation S offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.750% senior secured notes due 2032 and $750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.250% s
Davis Polk represented the representative of the initial purchasers in a Rule 144A / Regulation S offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.750% senior secured notes due 2032 and $750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.250% senior notes due 2033 by Qnity Electronics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
Read MoreEuronet Worldwide $1 billion convertible senior notes offering
Davis Polk represented the representatives of the initial purchasers in a Rule 144A offering by Euronet Worldwide, Inc. of an aggregate principal amount of $1 billion of 0.625% convertible senior notes due 2030.
Read MoreCatherine Hanaway, a partner and former chair of Husch Blackwell, has been appointed to serve as the next attorney general of Missouri.Hanaway, who led the firm from 2021 to 2024, is a former U.S. attorney and speaker of the Missouri House of Representati
Husch Blackwell partner and former chair Catherine Hanaway has been appointed to serve as the next attorney general of Missouri.
Read MoreCircle $1.5 billion follow-on offering
Davis Polk represented Circle Internet Group, Inc. in its SEC-registered public offering of $1.5 billion of Class A common stock.
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