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  • Nielsen to Sell Expositions Unit to Onex for $950 Million

    Onex Corp., Canada’s biggest buyout firm, agreed to acquire Nielsen Holdings NV’s tradeshow unit for $950 million in cash.

  • Ropes & Gray, Sidley, Cleary, Gibson Dunn:Business of Law

    Ropes & Gray LLP added four new corporate partners. Bracewell & Giuliani LLP lawyers Jonathan Gill and Robb Tretter join the firm in New York as partners in the private-equity practice, focusing on distressed investing. Mark Wesseldine, previously of Fried Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP will be joining the firm as a finance partner in London. Victoria Lloyd, a capital markets and mergers and acquisitions lawyer also from Fried Frank, is joining Ropes & Gray in its Hong Kong office.

  • Milbank, Fried Frank, Morgan Lewis: Business of Law

    Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP litigator Scott A. Edelman, 49, will take the helm of the firm this week succeeding Mel Immergut, 66, who has led the firm since 1995.

  • Bundesbank Said to Investigate Deutsche Bank Over Losses

    Germany’s Bundesbank is looking into allegations by former Deutsche Bank AG employees that the lender hid losses during the financial crisis, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

  • Women at Law Firms, Fried Frank, Latham: Business of Law

    The percentage of female associates at law firms fell for the third straight year, even as women made gains in becoming partners, according to a survey by NALP, formerly known as The National Association for Law Placement.

  • Fried Frank, O’Melveny & Myers, Mayer Brown: Business of Law

    Audrey Strauss, a partner in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Shriver, Harrison & Jacobson LLP, has been named the new chief legal officer of Alcoa Inc., the largest U.S. aluminum producer.

  • Bafin Said to Open Probe of Alleged Deutsche Bank Losses

    German financial watchdog Bafin in cooperation with the Bundesbank is probing allegations of former Deutsche Bank AG employees that the firm hid losses during the financial crisis, three people familiar with the matter said.

  • Deutsche Bank Hired Law Firm for Bank’s Portfolio Probe

    Deutsche Bank AG hired law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP in March 2010 to conduct an internal probe days after a trader alleged the bank had misrepresented the value of derivatives to mask paper losses during the financial crisis.

  • Jenner, Akin Gump, Fried Frank, Kramer: Business of Law

    Former Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli rejoined Jenner & Block LLP as a partner in the firm’s Washington office.

  • Mary Jo White’s Latest Conflict of Interest

    Here’s the big question for Mary Jo White: If she becomes chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where will her interests lie? With the public that pays her salary? Or with the people handing her the big bucks?

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