General Growth switches bankruptcy counsel-WSJ

NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - U.S. mall owner General Growth Properties Inc has switched bankruptcy counsel to Weil, Gotshal & Manges, parting with Sidley Austin LLP, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

General Growth is also hiring another law firm - Kirkland & Ellis - as bankruptcy counsel for some of it subsidiaries, the Journal said. Kirkland partner James Sprayregen, who recently returned to the firm from Goldman Sachs Group, has a ...