Optimum Communications Inc. said a top law firm’s withdrawal from representing it under pressure from Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, Oaktree Capital Management and others showed that they were participating in a cartel against it.
Optimum Communications Inc. said a top law firm’s withdrawal from representing it under pressure from Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, Oaktree Capital Management and others showed that they were participating in a cartel against it.
Signage on the building that houses Kirkland & Ellis LLP law firm in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 21, 2025. The agreement between the Trump administration and five leading law firms is likely to further shake a legal profession in upheaval as the administration has threatened or implemented executive orders cutting off their lawyers’ access to security clearances and government buildings, often in retribution for perceived political slights.