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Aggressive Skadden M&A lawyer and bibliophile Bob Pirie dies in New York
Founder of the Skadden Arps Boston office, Robert Pirie went on to chair Rothschild and to become senior managing partner of Bear Stearns, drawing the admiration of rivals such as Marty Lipton who called him 'absolutely formidable'.
Robert Pirie set up the Boston office of Skadden Arps Jon Bilous
However, he could have had a career in the world of collecting and antiquarian books. Up until his death at age 80, he was flying twice a year across the Atlantic to participate - as one of only six non-Britons - in the Roxburghe group of bibliophiles who are, mainly, British aristocrats and others who inherited their libraries.
Robert Maxwell
As an early M&A specialist for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom he has been described by partner Peter Atkins as someone who 'could lead the charge for a client and provide the necessary dedication and aggressiveness in a field that hadn’t yet been invented'. His clients and dinner party guests included Conrad Black, Rupert Murdoch, James Hanson and Robert Maxwell. He was very close to some of his clients. After the latter was found drowned off Gran Canarie in 1991, Mr Pirie told the FT: 'Bob used to go swimming all the time without telling anybody. It used to scare the hell out of his crew.' Source: Financial Times
