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Kirkland & Ellis LLP has announced that 74 attorneys will be promoted to partner effective October 1, 2011. Seven attorneys of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP will also be promoted to partner.

Of these only 2 are tax partners:

Thad W Davis – Chicago

Thad Davis focuses his practice on the tax aspects of bankruptcy and restructuring as well as complex mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Davis co-authored the article “Distressed Debt in Disorderly and Dysfunctional Markets” with Todd Maynes, which appeared in the March 2009 issue of Taxes.

Angela Rohman Russo from Hong Kong

Her practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts, as well as joint ventures, recapitalizations and debt and equity restructurings.

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More and more, Americans are starting their own small businesses. In fact, small businesses offer more new jobs each year than any other business type. Yet, most small business owners are unaware of the many options available to them when it comes to financing the start up costs of their business. CreditCardAssist.com, one of the leading online credit card comparison online companies, helps to guide small business owners through the maze of business credit cards ( http://www.creditcardassist.com/business/creditcards.html ) by providing them with comprehensive information on business credit cards and recommendations on how to find the one best suited for their needs and the future of their business.

Business credit cards are cards designed specifically with the needs of business owners in mind. Many of these cards offer discounts that can be helpful to small business owners, such as discounted travel, reduced entertainment costs, and special offers at office supply stores.

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The credit cards for poor credit used to be available from several major lenders. Credit was flowing freely and lending institutions were interested in acquiring as many credit customers as possible.

Even major credit lending banks would forgive some poor credit if the late payments showing on your credit report were balanced by timely payment on accounts in recent months.

If you had bad credit with multiple reports of non-payment or late payments the major credit lenders would refer you to a secured credit card but a small amount of poor credit was tolerated.

The downturn in the economy led to a credit crisis and lenders have responded by tightening their requirements for people who are applying for new credit accounts.

Today only consumers with good credit should both to apply for credit cards from the big banks. Lenders no longer separate “poor” credit from “bad” credit and now any black mark on your credit report is a major problem when you apply for new credit cards.

The best option is to visit your local bank branch.

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Active Duty personnel, veterans, retired members of the military, and employees of the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security are eligible to apply for up to $5,000 in down payment and closing costs in the purchase of a first home.  The national nonprofit Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation is offering the assistance through its Dream Makers program and says the grants can be applied to a mortgage from any financial institution.  More information is available at www.PentagonFoundation.org.  Click on the Dream Makers link.

If making your monthly bills seems overwhelming and you understand that it is increasingly difficult to buy something you need, then a bill consolidation service will be right for you. It’s a way to pay your bills by placing all or most of them in a low payment plan. The length of time you have to pay for this loan may be for a longer period than you originally owed, but the interest rate is generally much lower. This will help you handle what you need much easier. It is a great way to help you manage your financial situation.

As with any program you have both advantages and disadvantages when consolidating your bills. A big advantage is that the payment you will do after the consolidation of your bills should be much less than the total payments that you pay before the combining of debts. This means more money for you and your family each month. In most cases the interest rate on these loans are much lower than those you have already done. Read more…

If you can’t join them, beat them – right?  This is the mindset of rogue hacker group Anonymous when the group was rejected by Google+.  So what’s the best solution?  Start your own social network.  Don’t let Google bring you down. The new social network was launched yesterday and it’s called of all things Anon+.  Here’s a quote from the home page of Anon+ that pretty much summarizes what this new social network is all about:

“Anonplus was meant to thwart government censorship so that in the case of a government blackout the people can still be heard. The people are so far estranged from their world governments that they do not have a voice even outside of revolution therefore, they need an amplification tool without having to fear censorship from both the government AND the social network/media that they are choosing to use.

This social network will also incorporate and facilitate an open source educational environment allowing those who want, to further their knowledge of things that are righted to them at birth without having to feed the machine thousands upon thousands of dollars to do so.

This social network will allow open communication of ideas -and is essentially a cyber-anarchy formatted environment whereas the people are the ones keeping the peace in order via an understanding, rather than a force or threat.

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