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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&quot;&gt;As the dismantling of &lt;a class=&quot;&quot; href=&quot;/companies/company_main.jsp?co_page=1&amp;amp;product_id=310&amp;amp;ch_id=240&quot; target=&quot;&quot;&gt;Lehman Brothers&lt;/a&gt;continued with yesterday&amp;#8217;s announcement that the Barry Bonds of Bankruptcy had agreed to sell its asset management unit to a pair of private equity firms, familiar faces emerged on both sides.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In the latest development, Lehman bankruptcy counsel Weil, Gotshal &amp;amp; Manges reprised the same role it held during the fallen financial titan&amp;#8217;s piecemeal deals with Barclays PLC and Nomura Holdings, while Bain Capital tapped longtime legal counsel Ropes &amp;amp; Gray; co-bidder Hellman &amp;amp; Friedman, meanwhile, turned to Cleary Gottlieb, which was recently spotted representing Citigroup&amp;#8217;s underwriters in the $10 billion stock offering related to Citi&amp;#8217;s purchase of Wachovia&amp;#8217;s banking arm. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&quot;&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;o&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot;?&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&quot;&gt;Confirming week-old rumors, New York partner Chris Austin&amp;#8212;along with colleague Dan Sternberg&amp;#8212;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;led the Cleary effort; Austin had helped &lt;/span&gt;guide &lt;span style=&quot;mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;Hellman through several past deals, including its 2006 investment in fund manager Artisan Group.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;For its part, Ropes &amp;amp; Gray&amp;#8217;s foundation with client Bain is equally solid, with the firm counseling the company as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;it participated in the $11 billion purchase&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; 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Deconstructing Lehman

As the dismantling of Lehman Brotherscontinued with yesterday’s announcement that the Barry Bonds of Bankruptcy had agreed to sell its asset management unit to a pair of private equity firms, familiar faces emerged on both sides. In the latest development, Lehman bankruptcy counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges reprised the same role it held during the fallen financial titan’s piecemeal deals with Barclays PLC and Nomura Holdings, while Bain Capital tapped longtime legal counsel Ropes & Gray; co-bidder Hellman & Friedman, meanwhile, turned to Cleary Gottlieb, which was recently spotted representing Citigroup’s underwriters in the $10 billion stock offering related to Citi’s purchase of Wachovia’s banking arm.

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