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Ropes & Gray’s latest Partner promotions include several PE lawyers

Private Equity Wire

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings years of experience counseling clients on a wide array of deal strategies.

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

The Big Picture

But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And now we call it the private equity industry. Did you see like what was the fixed rate world like on the private side when things were dirt cheap?

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: It’s a liability on the books. MORGENSON: Well, these are private companies, not the firms themselves. But when they buy a company and put it into a fund, it’s a private company. And so, how they mark the value of that company is, there’s leeway there, Barry.