First up this week is the team led by Kathryn “Lee” Boyd of Hecht Partners and Michael Hausfeld of Hausfeld who represent refugees who claim French bank BNP Paribus aided and abetted the government of Sudan in committing acts of genocide between 1997 and 2011. After the suit survived the…

Japan’s largest insurance company, Nippon Life Insurance, is being advised by Latham & Watkins on its $3.8 billion sale of a 20% stake in Corebridge Financial Inc. to American International Group Inc. (AIG). AIG is being represented by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Debevoise & Plimpton advised Houston-based Corebridge, one…

Linklaters has become the latest firm to raise its newly-qualified U.K. lawyer salaries, matching the rate set by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer two weeks ago.  Linklaters new NQ salary will now sit at £150,000, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, up from £125,000. 

There’s a certain gut-level appeal to analogizing the algorithms used in pricing software to the dark-and-smoky rooms in price-fixing cases of yore—at least to the conspiracy-minded among us.  But in the case of casino hotels accused of conspiring with software company Cendyn to boost prices for rooms on the Las…

Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. Last week, I wrote about 13 federal judges who announced a boycott of clerkship hiring from Columbia University due to the school’s handling of pro-Palestine protests–a move that has elicited pushback from others on the bench.…

White & Case and Linklaters and regional law firm Ibrahim & Partners have advised on the initial public offering of supermarket chain Spinney 1961 Holdings on the Dubai Financial Market. The $375 million Spinneys IPO led to an implied market capitalization of around $1.5 billion. Investor interest was robust, with orders…