The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2024

Lots of small businesses do the same -- plumbing outfits, law firms, dentists, you name it. Take a law firm, for example. It operates like a legal pyramid scheme (and I say this as a former lawyer). Bid on larger projects and take on more than one at a time. of them are small businesses.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Thanks largely to news of a crucial legal settlement, GSK (NYSE: GSK) was one of the better-performing big pharma stocks on Wednesday. Relieved investors showed their appreciation by collectively bidding the company's shares up by 5.8% on the day, a performance that easily eclipsed the 0.7% rise of the benchmark S&P 500 index.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But yeah, then I went to Wachtel afterward because it, it seemed like, because like, you know, you’re, you’re a law student and you don’t know what a law firm is. And then like you can spend your second year summer at a law firm. And so you end the summer knowing what a law firm is.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

And how’d you get rich legally?” How does he answer the question, what do you do for a living and how do you get rich legally? Two, I was shocked that it was legal. He had a construction company and he’d bid a job at $1,000, it cost $1,200, but he’d outbid the other guy who was bidding the job at $1,400.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

So I did my thesis on how leveraged buyouts work from the legal and the business side. And Goldman was the size of a law firm back then. And I mean, it was literally like the size of a law firm, not a giant global institution. And you know, so we looked at it very hard, decided not to bid. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I did the, the first time I make it make some bid to, to get to know the people and the, write a story about it. 01:07:56 [Speaker Changed] So one other thing I have to ask about is you throw some shade at some of the big law firms, Sullivan and Cromwell and others. It came into Alameda. From the client, not from F T X.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 17, 2025

Citi and Nordea acted as placement agents for the transaction, with SVP and Bjelin Group receiving legal counsel from top law firms. Read more Trump names private equity CEO to lead Federal Housing Finance Agency President-elect Donald Trump nominated Bill Pulte, CEO of private equity firm Pulte Capital.

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