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A Hong Kong court has postponed a court hearing on troubled Chinese property developer Evergrande’s winding-up petition to Jan. 29

HONG KONG (Reuters) — A key offshore creditor group of China Evergrande (HK:3333) Group supports keeping the developer operating, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported ahead of a court hearing on Monday that could decide to liquidate the indebted firm.

The Australian arm of Allen & Overy says it will inform local clients of any impact to their data “as soon as we can”, after the global law firm suffered a cyberattack earlier this month.

Thrasio Holdings, which acquires third-party sellers on Amazon, is preparing to file for bankruptcy as it grapples with a post-pandemic slump in online spending, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Thrasio has been advised by New York-based consulting firm AlixPartners in recent years and their retail turnaround professional Holly Etlin is currently working with the company, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Four days after global law firm Allen & Overy suffered a cyberattack on its storage systems, the firm’s Australian arm will not say whether client data has been affected, or if it has informed local authorities.

New York | Cravath, Swaine & Moore, the elite US law firm that has customarily set the pay standard for its peers, has established a non-equity partner tier, in a further departure from the “lockstep” partner pay model.

Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners bested a crowd of offshore sponsors and strategics at the eleventh hour to secure Energy Exemplar, the tearaway energy analytics business owned by The Riverside Company.

alligator gar at Sam Rayburn Reservoir in southeast Texas, he did not know that he had broken two fishing records. He and his expert guide Kirk Kirkland released the giant fish back into the water. Now they are waiting to hear from the International Game Fish Association about whether they have set two new world records. The IGFA celebrated Weston's catch and described the records as 'pending' in a Facebook post.

Seattle-based Coldstream Wealth Management has added Seidman Capital Group, a wealth management firm overseeing $250 million in client assets, and Hersman Serles Almond, an accounting and consulting firm, it announced Monday.

cryptocurrency prices last year forced a procession of major firms into bankruptcy, trigging a government crackdown and erasing the savings of millions of inexperienced investors. But for a small group of corporate turnaround specialists, crypto's implosion has become a financial bonanza.Lawyers, accountants, consultants, cryptocurrency analysts and other professionals have racked up more than $700 million in fees since last year from the bankruptcies of five major crypto firms, including the digital currency exchange FTX, according to a New York Times analysis of court records. That sum is likely to grow significantly as the cases unfold over the coming months. Large fees are common in corporate bankruptcies, which require complex and time-intensive legal work to untangle.

Celsius Network LLC, commonly referred to as «Celsius,» has received approval for its Disclosure Statement from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Here are the primary details surrounding this development:

WeWork is tapping advisers for restructuring advice as it struggles with a heavy debt load and poor financial performance, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of the Softbank Group-backed WeWork fell about 15% to 0.12 cents in afternoon trade. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) suspended trading in WeWork's warrants on Tuesday due to «abnormally low» trading price levels and said will initiate proceedings to delist them. The flexible workspace provider has hired real estate adviser Hilco Global, engaged consultant Alvarez & Marsal and re-engaged law firm Kirkland & Ellis for advice on its options, according to the report. The company is seeking to avoid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and restructure its debts out of court, the report added citing a person familiar with the matter. WeWork, Hilco Global, Alvarez & Marsal and Kirkland & Ellis did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

reality, he said, neither passenger owns that space—it’s the airline’s. “The ambiguity lets them sell that space twice on every seat on every flight," he said. Airlines “offload the conflict onto the passengers, who mostly resolve it using good manners and politeness." Brett Wilmot, associate director of the ethics program at Villanova University, said that as an ethical matter, there is no right or wrong on the question.

By Abigail Summerville

(Reuters) -Fox Corp said on Friday that Chief Legal Officer Viet Dinh was stepping down, a high-profile exit that follows its $787.5 million settlement in April of a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems over its 2020 U.S. election coverage.

A BUTTON-UP over a white tee? That smartish-casualish uniform works for many offices and simplifies weekends the way a style no-brainer should. But it does call for a little thought: Whether your overshirt is fully or partly unbuttoned, the undershirt matters. Its neckline will be on show and saggy ones sadden us.

Kirkland & Ellis has hired US rival Paul Weiss’s London head Alvaro Membrillera, according to a person familiar with the situation.

edtech startup's $1.2 billion term loan, have agreed to work towards amending that loan by Aug. 3, the steering committee of the creditors group said on Monday.

Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne is resigning, saying the failures highlighted in a recent review by a panel of top scientists could raise questions about his ability to continue leading the school. The panel, which issued its report Wednesday, found no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne personally engaged in research misconduct, or that he knew of misconduct by others, but determined that data were manipulated in some published scientific papers on which he was a main contributor.

A crypto platform Voyager filed for bankruptcy a year ago, in July 2022, due to substantial losses caused by the bear market and the collapse of the Terra blockchain. 

The Swiss government slashed bonuses for top managers at Credit Suisse by tens of millions of dollars after the lender’s $3.2bn fire sale to rival UBS. The Swiss Federal Council said it would wipe out all outstanding variable remuneration for Credit Suisse’s executive board.