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BigLaw chapter associate actually lends an ear to reason behind Claire’s sale
By Debra Cassens Weiss
September 17, 2025, 12:04 pm CDT
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 group succeeded. (Photograph from Shutterstock)
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 group 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 received 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 probability that we have been going to have the ability to be the place we’re right this 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 the Kirkland & Ellis group held up an image of the lawyer from round 1995, when he had an ear piercing at Claire’s in highschool, in line with Regulation.com. Two others within the courtroom additionally confessed to Claire’s connections—one other Kirkland & Ellis associate who additionally had her ears pierced on the retailer and U.S. Chapter Choose Brendan Shannon of Delaware, whose daughter had her ears pierced there.
Sussberg’s highschool ear piercing lasted six months till his father received fed up. Sussberg stated he gained’t maintain his present earring any longer than that time-frame.
“However I’ll do no matter it takes for our purchasers,” he instructed Regulation.com.
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