Trials & Litigation
BigLaw chapter associate actually lends an ear to explanation for Claire’s sale
Kirkland & Ellis chapter associate Joshua Sussberg was so dedicated to discovering a purchaser to maintain his consumer Claire’s as a going concern that he vowed to get his ear pierced if the workforce succeeded. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Up to date: Kirkland & Ellis chapter associate Joshua Sussberg was so dedicated to discovering a purchaser to maintain his consumer Claire’s as a going concern that he vowed to get his ear pierced if the workforce succeeded.
After jewellery and equipment retailer Claire’s discovered a purchaser for its North American operations, Sussberg saved his promise, report Regulation.com (by way of Above the Regulation) and 9fin.
After approval of the sale to personal fairness firm Ames Watson, Sussberg acquired his left ear pierced by a Claire’s worker—within the courtroom.
“Once I made my dedication on the file, it was a really slim likelihood that we had been going to have the ability to be the place we’re at the moment,” Sussberg instructed 9fin. “I’m a person of my phrase.”
Sussberg made his piercing pledge on the finish of a listening to by which courtroom members confessed to Claire’s connections, he instructed the ABA Journal in an e mail.
Joshua Sussberg pictured in 1995, when he had his ear pierced at Claire’s in South Florida. Sussberg lately acquired his ear pierced once more throughout a court docket listening to for Claire’s. (Pictures courtesy of Joshua Sussberg)
“My associate, Alex Schwarzman, was explaining to the court docket on the very first listening to within the Chapter 11 case that Claire’s held a particular place in her coronary heart as a result of she acquired her ears pierced there,” Sussberg recollects. “The choose remarked that his daughters additionally had their ears pierced at Claire’s. Ms. Schwarzman responded that so many others have had their ears pierced at Claire’s, together with me—in 1995 at a Claire’s in Florida after I was in highschool.”
Schwarzman provided proof, holding up an outdated image of Sussberg by which he sported an earring.
“On the finish of the listening to, I instructed the choose we pledged to do no matter it takes to assist safe a going concern transaction and hold this model alive,” Sussberg says. “And I stated I might go as far as to re-pierce my ear if we had been capable of safe a purchaser. The choose stated he was going to carry me to that.”
Sussberg’s highschool ear piercing lasted six months till his father acquired fed up. Sussberg stated he gained’t hold his present earring any longer than that timeframe.
“However I’ll do no matter it takes for our purchasers,” he instructed Regulation.com.
Up to date Sept. 17 at 1:45 p.m. to incorporate Joshua Sussberg’s feedback.
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