H. Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York-based firm, advised AIG on its $85 billion ($?45.9 billion) bailout by the US Government, giving it an 80 per cent interest in AIG. He, and a number of S&C partners led by Michael Wiseman, also advised Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, on its ground-breaking conversion to a bank holding company and advised Lehman Brothers before it filed for bankruptcy.
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