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On the streets of Akron and most large American cities, gun violence has risen sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic began, leaving a long line of grieving families. In Congress and the Ohio Statehouse, proposals to control guns with reasonable reforms almost always die themselves. Instead, Ohioans are now allowed to “Stand Your Ground.” The result is a bloody gridlock, with the Second Amendment pitted against the rights of those who want to live in peace. Akron City Council and Mayor Dan Horrigan want to change that conversation by boldly attacking gun violence with $20 million of $153 mil...

When she's leaving: End of March Where she's headed: Sullivan & Cromwell Karen Seymour, Goldman's general counsel who helped steer the bank through the headwinds of its damaging 1MDB crisis, is leaving the firm at the end of March. Seymour was also a partner and member of the bank's management committee.  She is returning to the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, where she will be a partner, according to a memo sent by CEO David Solomon on Wednesday. Seymour is a veteran of Sullivan & Cromwell, having been a co-managing partner in the firm's litigation group in the past. She also spent time as a...

Citigroup; JPMorgan; Morgan Stanley; Qatalyst Partners; Skye Gould/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. While M&A had a down year during the pandemic, bankers still orchestrated a number of megadeals. Insider partnered with the financial-data platform MergerLinks to identify 2020's top 20 bankers. The ranking is based lead investment bankers who arranged the largest M&A deals in North America. For Wall Street's rainmakers, the start of 2020 was a nightmare....

Why Dealmakers Expect Tech M&A to Keep Up Its Red-Hot Run Bloomberg 1/24/2021 Liana Baker and Katie Roof (Bloomberg) -- Dealmakers say technology CEOs are pondering their dream deals after a record year for global tech M&A that saw mega-transactions in areas from chips to enterprise software. Global volume for tech and internet mergers and acquisitions reached $470 billion in 2020, second only to the dot-com bubble of 2000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Salesforce.com Inc.’s December announcement that it was buying Slack Technologies Inc. for $25 billion -- the ...

LionTree This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. From fighting activists to raising money and managing mergers, top media bankers had a busy year in 2020, with telecom, media and tech M&A soaring 77% in 2020. Univision's majority stake sale and Warner Music's IPO were among the biggest deals, and there's more to come this year. Insider rounded up eight of the top media bankers making these deals happen. It's been a stomach-churning year in media, with the pandemic pr...