Debevoise & Plimpton and Sullivan & Cromwell are among the firms advising as US conglomerate AT&T merges its WarnerMedia division with rival TV and streaming giant Discovery. WarnerMedia owns brands such as HBO, Warner Bros, CNN and Cartoon Network, while Discovery specialises in factual shows and distributes the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Quest and Eurosport, […]
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CMS is switching partner profit distributions back to its traditional bi-monthly schedule after temporary changes adopted during the pandemic, The Lawyer has learned. It is understood the firm moved to quarterly distributions last year, when it found itself in a position to resume the rounds following an emergency hiatus in the early part of the […]
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Debevoise & Plimpton and Sullivan & Cromwell are among the firms advising as US conglomerate AT&T merges its WarnerMedia division with rival TV and streaming giant Discovery. WarnerMedia owns brands such as HBO, Warner Bros, CNN and Cartoon Network, while Discovery specialises in factual shows and distributes the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Quest and Eurosport, […]
US firms need to retain their partners to maintain sustainable growth.
CMS is switching partner profit distributions back to its traditional bi-monthly schedule after temporary changes adopted during the pandemic, The Lawyer has learned. It is understood the firm moved to quarterly distributions last year, when it found itself in a position to resume the rounds following an emergency hiatus in the early part of the […]
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
EY Law is bringing in a team of six lawyers to boost its financial services practice, including a former Dechert partner. The legal arm of the accountancy firm has brought in a collective helmed by Monica Gogna, a finance expert who left Dechert last September. The team hire is aimed at building out a financial services […]
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