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• Skadden terminates exclusive alliance with Italian firm Chiomenti

  Oct 24 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and its Italian "best friend" Chiomenti Studio Legale have terminated their exclusive strategic alliance after seven years. Skadden... more

• Davis Polk, Skadden, Sullivan in Citigroup's Wachovia buy

  Oct 01 2008 Davis Polk & Wardwell, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Sullivan & Cromwell have scored lead roles on Citigroup’s acquisition of Wachovia’s banking operations... more

• Skadden Arps and Linklaters advise on Lehman sale in Asia

  Sep 24 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has advised Japanese bank Nomura on its winning auction bid for Lehman Brothers' Asian operations. Linklaters' Hong Kong office... more

• Skadden advises Coca-Cola Co. on $2.4 billion China deal

  Sep 10 2008 Coca-Cola Co. tapped Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom for corporate work on its $2.4 billion cash offer for China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. Skadden lawyers... more

• Skadden private equity partner Kenju Watanabe joins Paul Hastings in Tokyo

  Sep 08 2008 Kenju Watanabe, formerly of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, has joined Paul Hastings as partner in the Tokyo office. Watanabe's practice focuses on... more

• SJ Berwin wins Samsonite UK mandate from Skadden

  Sep 08 2008 SJ Berwin has taken over from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom as main UK law firm for luggage maker Samsonite. Skadden had been Samsonite’s counsel firm for 15 years. more

• US firms braced for slump in half-year revenues

  Jul 22 2008 US firms are preparing their partners for sinking revenues as they take stock of their financial progress at the half-year stage. Business has been far harder since... more

• DLA Piper scoops $6.7bn biotech merger

  Jun 19 2008 DLA Piper has scored a role in one of the biggest pharmaceutical deals of the year, lining up alongside Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in the $6.7bn (£3.4bn) merger... more

• Skadden, DLA Piper on $6.7 Life Sciences Merger

  Jun 14 2008 Skadden and DLA Piper advised two California-based companies on a $6.7 billion merger that would create one of the world's largest life sciences companies and a leader... more

• Skadden’s the Top, Says Survey of Directors and GCs

  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... more

• Clifford Chance revenue rises to record £1.3bn

  May 30 2008 Clifford Chance has retained its position as the world’s biggest law firm after announcing revenue of £1.33 billion for the last financial year, in defiance of... more

• Skadden nabs senior Jones Day healthcare man

  May 04 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has boosted its US healthcare practice with the hire of a senior partner from domestic rival Jones Day. Greg Luce, who co-chaired the... more

• Revenue record in 2007 for US law firms thanks to M&A boom

  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... more

• Simpson Thacher and Skadden take lead roles on Mars’ merger with Wrigley

  Apr 30 2008 Elite Manhattan firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken lead roles on Mars’ merger with rival confectionary group Wm Wrigley... more

• Skadden, Debevoise Advising on $6.2 Billion Insurance Merger

  Apr 28 2008 Boston-based insurance monolith Liberty Mutual, one of the top property and casualty insurers in the U.S., has tapped Debevoise & Plimpton's M&A partners Gregory... more

• Law Firms Find Work Abroad as U.S. Mergers Hit a Low

  Apr 19 2008 As the credit crisis drove first-quarter U.S. mergers and acquisitions down 54 percent to $248.1 billion from $536.3 billion last year, deal volume in Asia, Latin... more

• Skadden Pledges $9.6 Million to Help Minorities Enter Law

  Apr 16 2008 To redress what it terms a "persistent lack of diversity" in the legal profession, one of the nation's largest corporate law firms will commit $9.6 million over the... more

• Skadden, Arps Celebrates 60th Anniversary and Names New Partners

  Apr 04 2008 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom celebrated its 60th anniversary and named 25 new partners based in 11 different offices. A record number of partners have been to... more

• Secret Skadden Arps Contract Scandal

  Mar 30 2008 Skadden Arps, a law firm that has been paid $3.9 million for its work on New Jersey's Gov. Jon S. Corzine's toll road plan, bid more than a competitor that was... more

• SocGen turns to Skadden for class action battle

  Mar 27 2008 Societe Generale has called in US giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom to battle a class action law suit brought by shareholders following recent heavy losses... more

• Skadden Arps' funds specialist joins Clifford Chance in Tokyo

  Mar 25 2008 Clifford Chance has cherry-picked Tokyo-based funds lawyer John Fadely from his role as head of Skadden Arps' Asian private funds practice and brought him in as a... more

• Big Law, Bigger Profits

  Mar 25 2008 2007 was the best year yet for the nation's largest law firms. The top 50 U.S. firms generated a total of $46.6 billion in revenue in 2007, a 16 percent increase over... more

• Expansive Skadden set for Sao Paulo launch

  Mar 19 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is to open a new office in Sao Paulo, the US giant announced yesterday. The new branch is expected to open in May or June and... more

• Skadden Blog's 'Hot Associate' Contest Is Put on Ice

  Feb 12 2008 Unauthorized blog contest to pick Skadden's 'hottest female associate' provokes chilly response from law firm brass Who's the hottest young woman lawyer at Skadden,... more

• D.C. Associate Bonuses 'Fairly Healthy' This Year

  Feb 03 2008 It's associate bonus season for many Washington, D.C., law firms, and the numbers are trickling in. At a few firms, D.C. associates may be getting an extra check that... more

• Major US law firms bet on Obama to win 2008 presidential election race

  Jan 10 2008 US law firms are throwing their financial muscle behind the Democrats’ attempts to reach the White House, with the legal sector providing more funding to the party’s... more

• American law firms: overpaid, over here and taking over?

  Jan 09 2008 Among her 300 million citizens, America finds room for 2.2 million prisoners, half a million soldiers — and 1.1 million lawyers, increasing numbers of whom find their... more

• Firms Hungry for More Lawyers in Russia

  Jan 06 2008 Although Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has been in Moscow since 1992, its office in the Russian capital is still rather modest. Around 30 attorneys handle a... more

• Magic circle dominates 2007 Thomson European M&A league

  Jan 05 2008 The magic circle have this year all but sewn up the European M&A market between them off the back of the $193bn Rio Tinto, $99bn ABN Amro and $19bn Boots KKR... more

• U.S. Loses Ground in Law-Firm League Tables

  Jan 04 2008 New York-based Sullivan & Cromwell has led the global M&A advisory rankings each year since 2003. So its No. 1 position in 2007 was hardly a surprise. More notable,... more

• Skadden snares German Shearman partner

  Dec 23 2007 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has strengthened its German offering with the hire of banking partner Johannes Kremer, who joins from US rival Shearman & Sterling.... more