Entries tagged "Joe Jamail"
The highly anticipated -- at least by Dealscape staff -- Icahn Report blog, which the strongly opinionated activist financier Carl Icahn first announced in January, is reportedly only a week or two away from launching, reports Reuters. Icahn's attorneys allegedly held up the launch. We can't wait to put it in our RSS readers because we're hoping it will include more humorous anecdotes about fellow dealmakers like Apollo Management LLP's Leon Black and attorney Joe Jamail. - The editors...
So a Texan and a New York Jew walk into a bar. ... Sounds like the start of a joke, but in fact it is a true story about an encounter between dealmaker Carl Icahn and attorney Joe Jamail, who is representing Clear Channel Communications Inc. in its suit against the banks that bailed on its leveraged buyout. ...
While there promises to be plenty of financial drama surrounding the lawsuits filed by Clear Channel Communications Inc. and its private equity suitors against the banks that were financing the leveraged buyout, the hiring of Texas trial lawyer Joe Jamail to represent the radio and billboard company in the suit is sure to add plenty of fireworks. Jamail's resume has plenty of accomplishments, including a place in "Guinness Book of World Records" for representing a client who received the largest jury verdict -- $11.12 billion -- in the history of law in the Pennzoil v. Texaco case, as well as...
