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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;o&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot;?&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;TEXT-DECORATION: none&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The eye of the hurricane&amp;#8212;that would be the Wachovia/Citigroup/Wells Fargo litigation standstill agreement&amp;#8212;is stalled above BigLaw through at least tomorrow morning.&amp;nbsp; So, as Iceland crumbles,&amp;nbsp;here is our third installment of Who&amp;#8217;s Who Among the Wreckage (and&amp;nbsp;please let us know in the comments if we&amp;#8217;ve omitted anyone):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Shearman &amp;amp; Sterling&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Shearman stepped up for Merrill Lynch last month as Bank of America scooped up the financial conglomerate for roughly $50 billion to create the largest brokerage house and consumer banking franchise in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Cravath, Swaine &amp;amp; Moore&lt;/u&gt;: &lt;/b&gt;While Merrill Lynch &amp;amp; Co. tapped Shearman &amp;amp; Sterling during its acquisition by B of A last month, the Mortimers and Randolphs on Merrill&amp;#8217;s board turned to Cravath for counsel; the firm has represented the company&amp;#8217;s board since October 2007, when former CEO Stanley O&amp;#8217;Neal walked away from the foundering ship with a compensation package valued at roughly $161 million.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;More recently, Cravath, led by corporate partner William Fogg, advised JPMorgan as it raised $10 billion via a common stock offering after it acquired WaMu in late September. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Debevoise &amp;amp; Plimpton&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; So far holding a relatively tangential role in this sordid mess, Debevoise counseled J.C. Flowers and Co. as the private equity firm advised B of A through its buyout of Merrill Lynch last month. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&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;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Skadden&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;: &lt;/b&gt;A backup to Cadwalader on Team Bear Stearns back in March, Skadden is at the steering wheel in Citigroup&amp;#8217;s tenuous agreement to buy a big piece of Wachovia (although with the past weekend&amp;#8217;s happenings, the wheel may well be on the passenger side, glued to the dash).&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In comparison, Skadden&amp;#8217;s co-representation of Nomura last month during the holding company&amp;#8217;s purchase of foreign &lt;font color=&quot;#800080&quot;&gt;Lehman Brothers&lt;/font&gt; assets now seems like a walk in the park.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Davis Polk &amp;amp; Wardwell&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Davis Polk answered its country&amp;#8217;s call last month, when it agreed to advise the treasury department as the government seized control of 80 percent of AIG in exchange for a bailout loan of $85 billion in taxpayer funds.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This month, the firm&amp;#8217;s focusing on its private-sector clients&amp;#8212;namely Citigroup in its endangered bid for Wachovia&amp;#8217;s banking operations. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Cadwalader, Wickersham &amp;amp; Taft: &lt;/b&gt;A half-year after structured finance shark Dennis Block greased the Bear&amp;#8217;s descent into insolvency (and a month after it continued to represent the fallen bank&amp;#8217;s board in court), Cadwalader saw client Lehman turn into the largest garage sale in history, adding to the firm&amp;#8217;s woes in a year that&amp;#8217;s already brought more than its share of bad news.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&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;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Osborne Clarke&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Nary a month ago, U.K.-based Osborne Clarke helped Nomura buy up much of Lehman&amp;#8217;s operations outside &lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;st1&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot;?&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;North America&lt;/st1:place&gt;, teaming with Skadden and Linklaters on the September deal.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&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;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;: &lt;/b&gt;Freshfields was one of several voices in Nomura&amp;#8217;s ear as the company negotiated the deal that brought it Lehman&amp;#8217;s investment banking holdings in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East; corporate partners Stephen Revell and Mark Kalderon took the reins for the firm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&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;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Boies, Schiller &amp;amp; Flexner&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Since S&amp;amp;C&amp;#8217;s H. Rodge apparently doesn&amp;#8217;t provide sufficient star power (or could it be that Subprime Superman&amp;#8217;s stretched thin?), Wachovia&amp;#8217;s brought on partners David Boies and George Frampton to help it fend off Citigroup&amp;#8217;s attempts to enforce last week&amp;#8217;s disputed deal concerning Wachovia&amp;#8217;s banking practice. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&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;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;:&lt;/b&gt; Chalk one up for the little man: Joseph et al. is representing Citigroup in the ongoing &lt;st1:city w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Battle&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; for Middle Earth, a/k/a Wach vs. Citi with a threat of Wells.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Joseph, once Fried Frank&amp;#8217;s litigation chief, and three other partners from his eponymous 14-lawyer &lt;st1:city w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Manhattan&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; boutique are on the case.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- posted by ben fuchs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 3pt&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;&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;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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