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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;A fortnight back, we posted &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;a fairly comprehensive summary of the&lt;/span&gt; legal aspects of the financial meltdown.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well, that was then.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In light of the past weeks&amp;#8217; happenings&amp;#8212;the &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Death of WaMu&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Sitdown at Cornwall&lt;/span&gt; come to mind&amp;#8212;here&amp;#8217;s the first half of an updated rundown:&lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;o&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot;?&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Cleary Gottlieb&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; Cleary Gottlieb&amp;#8217;s landed a string of pivotal roles over the past five weeks, starting with its representation of &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Morgan Stanley&lt;/span&gt; throughout the one-time investment bank&amp;#8217;s (see &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Sept. 21, 2008&lt;/span&gt;) work as a government advisor during the &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac takeovers&lt;/span&gt;. The firm subsequently advised the feds &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;as Lehman Brothers filed Chapter 11&lt;/span&gt;, then turned around and helped&amp;#8212;along with Clifford Chance and Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell&amp;#8212;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Barclays PLC&lt;/span&gt; buy up Lehman&amp;#8217;s North American banking and capital markets operations &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;for roughly $1.75 billion&lt;/span&gt;. Soon thereafter, Cleary aided in the $2.15 billion cash sale of Lehman&amp;#8217;s asset management unit to a pair of private equity firms, and in late September, the firm advised &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Citigroup&lt;/span&gt; on a deal with a nearly identical price tag: &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;its currently-in-limbo&amp;nbsp;purchase of Wachovia&amp;#8217;s banking division&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Ropes &amp;amp; Gray&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;A role player in the financial&amp;nbsp;meltdown, steadfast Ropes &amp;amp; Gray client&amp;#8212;and&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;fellow Bostonian&amp;#8212;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Bain Capital&lt;/span&gt; tapped the firm to help it &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;team with another private equity outfit to buy Lehman&amp;#8217;s asset management unit&lt;/span&gt;; a dozen Ropes &amp;amp; Gray partners spanning several practice areas &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;chipped in to help Bain close the deal&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Clifford Chance&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;The global giant held a seat within the triumvirate of firms advising Barclays in its post-bankruptcy acquisition of most of Lehman&amp;#8217;s North American holdings last month. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; We&#39;ll have a round of whatever &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;H. Rodgin Cohen&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8217;s drinking these days. Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell&amp;#8217;s chairman has &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;dominated the legal headlines&lt;/span&gt; since holding &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Fannie Mae&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8217;s hand as the government took custody last month, with his firm playing a role in most of the other recent major deals: S&amp;amp;C has advised Barclays as it bought up Lehman&amp;#8217;s North American banking and capital markets assets, &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;AIG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;throughout its &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;federal bailout&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Goldman Sachs&lt;/span&gt; as it morphed from an investment bank into a&amp;nbsp;bank holding company, JPMorgan in its successful $1.9 billion bid for the bankrupt &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Washington Mutual&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Wachovia during its romantic&amp;nbsp;triangle&lt;/span&gt; with Citigroup and&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Wells Fargo. According to press reports, Cohen himself led S&amp;amp;Cs efforts on every one of these deals&amp;#8212;as well&amp;nbsp;the firm&#39;s&amp;nbsp;earlier representation of &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Bear Stearns&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;during its final days.&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Weil Gotshal&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; If Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell&amp;#8217;s netted the fattest haul of assignments in recent weeks&amp;#8212;and it has&amp;#8212;then Weil &amp;amp; Gotshal hooked the biggest legal trophy of all when it was appointed debtor&amp;#8217;s counsel during Lehman Brothers&amp;#8217; Chapter 11 case. Led by chairman &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Stephen Dannhauser&lt;/span&gt; and partner &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Harvey Miller&lt;/span&gt;, who helmed &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;the Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. bankruptcy in 1990&lt;/span&gt;, Weil Gotshal &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;says&lt;/span&gt; that more than 100 employees&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;have spent time on All Things Lehman in the past month. In connection to the Chapter 11 process, Weil Gotshal advised Lehman as it auctioned off wholesale chunks of its operations to Barclays and the private equity tag-team of Bain Capital and &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Hellman &amp;amp; Friedman&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; On a comparatively minor note, the firm also &lt;s&gt;donated&lt;/s&gt; sold its services to AIG as the government seized a majority stake in the insurance titan in mid-September. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Milbank Tweed&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; In a reprisal of roles from the &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Enron bankruptcy&lt;/span&gt;, Milbank Tweed stands opposite debtor&amp;#8217;s counsel Weil Gotshal as it &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;steers the Lehman creditors&amp;#8217; committee through the Chapter 11 process&lt;/span&gt;; bankruptcy specialist (&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;and recent Amlaw &amp;#8220;Lawyer of the Week&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;) Dennis Dunne leads the way for Milbank.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Simpson Thacher&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;After being passed over for Wachtell by longtime client &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;JPMorgan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt; a&lt;/span&gt;nd, as &lt;i&gt;The American Lawyer &lt;/i&gt;reported, subsequently &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;advising the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Bear Stearns debacle&lt;/span&gt; earlier in 2008, Simpson Thacher has emerged as a key player in Lehman&amp;#8217;s liquidation (counseling the bank&amp;#8217;s board of directors), &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Wachovia&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8217;s disputed agreement to sell Citigroup its banking division (working alongside Sullivan &amp;amp; Cromwell on Wachovia&amp;#8217;s behalf), and &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;WaMu&amp;#8217;s sale to JPMorgan&lt;/span&gt; (representing the former during the buyout). &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Linklaters&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; The Magic Circle stalwart has&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;roughly 100 attorneys working on its representation of Lehman administrator &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;PricewaterhouseCoopers&lt;/span&gt;, with the lion&amp;#8217;s share &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;based in the U.K.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Back in the States, Linklaters is dedicating 21 brave souls to the task&lt;/span&gt;, with the mission led by litigation head &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Larry Byrne&lt;/span&gt; and U.S. restructuring and insolvency chief &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Martin Flics&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In more straightforward dealings, &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;the firm was part of the consortium of firms&lt;/span&gt; that guided &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Nomura Holdings&lt;/span&gt; through its &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;buyout&lt;/span&gt; of Lehman assets in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Wachtell&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;The M&amp;amp;A maven has adapted to the economic climate and managed to walk off with some of the downturn&amp;#8217;s choicest assignments, &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;representing Bank of America as it gobbled up Merrill Lynch&lt;/span&gt; and co-advising the &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;U.S. Department of the Treasury&lt;/span&gt; as the government took over four-fifths of AIG. These deals&amp;#8212;along with its ongoing representation of &lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue&quot;&gt;Wells Fargo&lt;/span&gt; in the Wachovia/Citi mess&amp;#8212;come six months after Wachtell guided JPMorgan (snagging the lead advisory role from Simpson Thacher) through its bargain-basement buyout of Bear Stearns. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;Coming tomorrow: Who&amp;#8217;s Who, Part Three.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: right&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;&quot;&gt;- posted by ben fuchs&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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