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Apr 22 2010
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Jones Walker have taken key roles on the $10.6 billion...
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Apr 13 2010
Mirant Corporation and RRI Energy, Inc have announced a $1.6 billion merger deal, combining their companies to create a new company, GenOn Energy. The agreement will...
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Apr 13 2010
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) has signed up a five-year development plan with US based Atlas Energy to develop a better part of the Marcellus Shale held by...
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Apr 12 2010
The latest deal over the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia sees India's Reliance Industries in a $1.7 billion joint venture with US company Atlas...
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Mar 17 2010
The sale of an Appalachian natural gas and oil business from Dominion Reources to Consol Energy Inc will be guided by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Consol have a...
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Mar 16 2010
The US$3 billion sale by of Tommy Hilfiger to the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (of American Apparel fame) is to be led by Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and Wachtell,...
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Feb 23 2010
On Sunday, international oil services company Schlumberger LTD., announced plans to merge with Houston-based Smith International--a supplier of oil exploration and...
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Feb 18 2010
Walgreens announced on Wednesday plans to acquire rival Duane Reade for nearly $1.1 billion in cash, expanding the national drugstore chain's presence in the New York...
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Feb 11 2010
In Pennsylvania state court proceedings on Tuesday, lawyers representing Cravath, Swaine & Moore rejected claims that the firm breached its fiduciary duty to Airgas by...
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Feb 09 2010
Industrial gas producer Airgas filed suit against Cravath, Swaine & Moore last Friday over the firm's role as legal adviser to rival Air Products and Chemicals on its...
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Jan 21 2010
Wall Street firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has hired Robert Morgenthau, the retired Manhattan district attorney renowned for pursuing white-collar crime around...
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Jan 05 2010
Allen & Overy is advising pharma giant Novartis on its $28bn acquisition of a majority stake in eye-care company Alcon, with a team led by Eric Shube.
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Dec 18 2009
Equity firm Apollo Global Management agreed late Wednesday to acquire Cedar Fair, a company that owns Knott's in Buena Park and 10 other amusement parks, seven water...
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Nov 14 2009
Allen & Overy (A&O) has taken a lead role on the $1.8bn (£1.1bn) sale of General Electric's fire alarm and security unit to US conglomerate United Technologies,...
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Oct 20 2009
Did Bank of America and its lawyers at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton make a mistake in the order waiving attorney-client privilege in the bank's case against the...
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Oct 02 2009
After eight years, Clifford Chance lost its top spot as the world's largest law firm by revenue, according to data by Am Law Daily. Clifford Chance was replaced...
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Sep 23 2009
US elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which came under heavy criticism for its work on Bank of America's merger with Merrill Lynch in the last weeks, has...
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Sep 16 2009
Two of the most prominent US law firms are facing scrutiny after U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff rejected the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposed...
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Aug 26 2009
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is the most prestigious law firm according to Vault’s law firm rankings by law firm associates, defending its No. 1 spot for the seventh...
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Aug 26 2009
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is blaming lawyers from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Shearman & Sterling for Bank of America’s failure to...
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Aug 26 2009
Beijing-based law firms Commerce & Finance and Deheng took the top two spots of the Asia-Pacific M&A league table by value in the first half of 2009 --- the first time...
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Aug 20 2009
Seven major US law firm signed to a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expressing their opinion on how to best implement a proposal to allow...
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Aug 18 2009
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz represented BB&T in its acquisition of Colonial's 350 branches, mostly in the Southeast of the US.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett acted...
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Jul 07 2009
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the most-profitable US law firm, took the top spot on the Bloomberg list of M&A advisers for the first half of 2009, ousting UK-based...
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Jun 18 2009
Most of the top US law firms are currently not deferring associates despite the financial crisis.
According to the AmLaw Daily, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz;...
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May 08 2009
2008 was the worst financial year for the US law firms since 1991. Partner profits and lawyer productivity at America's top 100 law firms was falling for the first...
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Jan 27 2009
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, Simpson Thacher, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz have won lead roles on US drug manufacturer Pfizer's $68bn acquisition of rival...
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Jan 14 2009
Citigroup hired Davis Polk & Wardwell and Morgan Stanley retained Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as advisors on the merger of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and...
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Jan 02 2009
Linklaters was hired to advise on four of the 10 biggest mergers and acquisitions in 2008, leading the M&A league table published by Bloomberg today. In the smallest...
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Nov 06 2008
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has made up six lawyers to the partnership in the New York firm’s latest round of promotions...
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Oct 14 2008
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & Cromwell have snared the lead roles on Morgan Stanley’s $9bn (£5.2bn) injection from Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial...
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Sep 23 2008
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz wants regulators to take definitive actions against short sellers and implement a comprehensive review of the credit default swap (CDS)...
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Sep 16 2008
Elite US firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead advisory roles on the $50bn all-stock sale of banking giant Merrill Lynch to...
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Sep 10 2008
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has scored the lead role on the US government’s seizure of beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with corporate partner...
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Sep 05 2008
Clifford Chance, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and White & Case are among 64 law firms to receive a perfect score in the Human Rights...
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Aug 16 2008
The top 10 firms as ranked in the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms are:
1. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York, NY)
2. Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York,...
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Jul 21 2008
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct a 45-day study of the extent to which "abusive and manipulative...
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Jul 15 2008
Shearman & Sterling has taken the lead role alongside Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz on a chemical company acquisition worth approximately $18.8bn. US chemical giant Dow...
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Jul 11 2008
Figures compiled by Legal Week and The American Lawyer show that three UK firms make it into the global top 10 by PEP — Slaughter and May, Linklaters and Freshfields...
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Jun 11 2008
The best corporate law firm in American is Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, according to a survey released today of 1,390 directors and 279 GCs of public...
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May 02 2008
The American Lawyer reported today that two law firms, Skadden, Arps and Latham & Watkins, broke the industry’s $2 billion gross revenue barrier for the first time. It...
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Apr 06 2008
Data released Thursday shows that U.K. and U.S. firms touched a third fewer M&A deals in the first quarter of 2008 than a year earlier.
At several top firms M&A...
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Mar 18 2008
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have scooped lead roles on JPMorgan Chase's acquisition of troubled investment bank Bear Stearns....
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Feb 08 2008
The New York Observer has answered a burning political question that never occurred to us, at least until now: “If the major presidential candidates were top New York...
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Feb 03 2008
Clifford Chance has won a high-profile mandate to advise the Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) on its joint acquisition with Alcoa of a 12% stake in Rio Tinto...
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Oct 19 2007
The third-quarter tables for legal advisers - those charts that list how many deals firms have worked on - provide few surprises but offer a glimpse into the tight...
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