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• Kirkland & Ellis takes lead role in $5 billion pharma deal

  Mar 19 2010 Kirkland & Ellis has scored a lead role in the $5 billion acquisition by Teva Pharmaceuticals of German generic drug manufacturer Ratiopharm. The Kirkland team will be... more

• Former White House counsel Gregory Craig joins Skadden

  Jan 28 2010 Gregory B. Craig, former White House counsel and an adviser to President Obama, has landed back at top US firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom just a few weeks... 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

• Obama gets millions from law firms serving interests of Wall Street

  May 07 2008 Despite Obama 's claim that Washington lobbyists haven't funded his campaign, five corporate law firms, which are among the top contributors to the Obama campaign,... more

• Skadden is top global M&A adviser in 2009

  Jan 08 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom overtook its UK competitor Linklaters LLP to advise on the highest value of mergers and acquisitions in 2009 according to... more

• Longtime Skadden Chicago chief Wayne Whalen steps aside

  Jan 05 2010 Wayne Whalen, 70, stepped aside Friday as head of the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Whalen was one of six former partners at Mayer Brown... more

• Non-American law firms move up latest list of top dealmakers

  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... more

• Weil Gotshal, Skadden win lead roles on $1.9bn Sanofi buyout

  Dec 29 2009 French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis is purchasing Tennessee-based consumer care products company Chattem Inc. for $1.9-billion in a move to diversify from its... more

• US law firms cut bonuses for first-year associates

  Dec 21 2009 Major US law firms including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP cut year-end bonuses for... more

• Davis Polk, Skadden advise on Exxon-XTO mega-deal

  Dec 15 2009 Exxon Mobil will acquire natural gas company XTO Energy for $31 billion and $10 billion in debt, the biggest energy deal since 2006. Davis Polk & Wardwell and... more

• Linklaters and Wachtell top global law firm rankings

  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... more

• Slaughters, Linklaters advise on Barclays $12.3bn credit restructuring

  Sep 18 2009 Slaughter and May, Linklaters, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft are all advising on a deal, in which Britain’s... more

• Skadden litigation star Robert Bennett joins Hogan & Hartson

  Sep 05 2009 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's legendary litigator Robert Bennett - co-head of the international government enforcement litigation group and the criminal and... more

• Big U.S. law firms cut back on law school recruiting

  Sep 02 2009 U.S. law students are competing for about half as many openings at large law firms this year as last year. Several law firms have canceled on-campus interviews as... more

• Worst season for 'big law' jobs in over 50 years

  Aug 28 2009 This fall, law school grads are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search... more

• Vault Top 100 Law Firms 2010: And the winner is... Wachtell

  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... more

• Skadden to cut 2010 summer associates class by half

  Aug 25 2009 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is cutting the size of its summer associate class by half from 225 summer associates this year to only 100 next year in 2010.... more

• Vault Top 100 Law Firms 2009: Wachtell #1 for sixth year

  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,... more

• Clifford Chance, Skadden, Cleary advise on CEMEX debt restructuring

  Aug 21 2009 Clifford Chance, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Slaughter and May, Allens Arthur Robinson, and Matheson Ormsby Prentice are among... more

• Major firms sign letter to SEC opposing shareholder rights proposal

  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... more

• Clifford Chance loses global top spot to Linklaters

  Aug 11 2009 Clifford Chance has lost its No. 1 spot as the world's largest law firm by gross revenue to British rival Linklaters. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer claimed the... more

• Paul Hastings poaches Skadden patent star Jeffrey Randall

  Aug 11 2009 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has hired Jeffrey Randall, a star patent litigator from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who is known... more

• DLA Piper lawyer Ron Schiller trades Big Law for boutique

  Aug 03 2009 Ron Schiller, head of DLA’s litigation practice in Philadelphia, is the latest senior lawyer to jump from a global firm to a boutique, 50-lawyer firm Hangley Aronchick... more

• Skadden, Sheppard Mullin, Perkins Coie advise on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

  Jul 30 2009 Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to a deal under which Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site, and Yahoo will sell search advertising services... more

• Wachtell tops global M&A rankings in first half of 2009

  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... more

• Clifford Chance loses global top spot to Skadden

  Jul 03 2009 As expected, Clifford Chance has lost its position as the world's biggest law firm to US rival Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The Magic Circle firm has... more

• Skadden, Nixon Peabody, and Cozen O'Connor are hiring in Chicago

  Jun 15 2009 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Nixon Peabody; and Cozen O'Connor, are moving into new offices in Chicago and seeking to fill the space with new lawyers. more

• Will Clifford Chance lose global top spot to Skadden?

  Jun 05 2009 Clifford Chance may lose its spot as the world’s largest law firm by revenue to U.S. competitors because of the effect of the global financial crisis on the firm’s... more

• Skadden loses third partner in a week

  May 20 2009 Skadden restructuring partner Jan Baker has been appointed head of Latham & Watkins’ restructuring group and will be based in the firm’s New York office. It is... more

• Skadden M&A stars Fox and Wolf defect to Kirkland

  May 15 2009 David Fox and Daniel Wolf, two top mergers and acquisitions partners at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, are joining Kirkland & Ellis. This is the first time any... more

• Skadden launches arbitration practice in Hong Kong

  May 07 2009 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is launching an international arbitration and litigation practice in Asia. Several lawyers will relocate from London to Hong... more

• Two Skadden litigators leave the firm

  Mar 23 2009 Skadden litigators Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes will be leaving to combine with a DC-based small firm to create boutique Buckley Sandler. The firm's focus will... more

• Law firms grow in China as thousands are laid off in the US, UK

  Feb 24 2009 Proskauer Rose, and Slaughter and May are among the firms that are opening new offices in China, adding to the almost 30 foreign firms in China since September 2006, a... more

• Skadden Arps scores coup with NY chief judge hire

  Feb 18 2009 Judith S. Kaye, New York’s chief judge until last year, will return to private practice. Kaye will join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom after 25 years as a New... more

• Sullivan, Skadden and Davis Polk post falling profits in 2008

  Feb 12 2009 Wall Street leaders Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell and Davis Polk & Wardwell have all seen falling profits and flat revenues in 2008. Dewey... more

• M&A boost for US law firms in Latin America

  Feb 09 2009 Skadden Arps, White & Case, Shearman & Sterling and other major U.S. law firms have seen a massive growth in their Latin American M&A business. Skadden has doubled... more

• $1,000-an-hour bankruptcy lawyer fees excessive?

  Feb 06 2009 Bankruptcy lawyer fees broke through the $1,000-an-hour barrier for the priciest bankruptcy legal advice. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's rates top out at... more

• Skadden is Wall Street's most powerful law firm

  Jan 28 2009 With 1,700 attorneys and $2.2 billion in fees last year, New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is the biggest U.S. law firm by revenue and the third biggest... more

• Blog: Skadden bonuses $35K to $65K

  Dec 19 2008 Skadden pays its associates year-end bonuses of $35,000 to $65,000, according to the legal blog Above the Law. This is well above what many of its major-firm... more

• Skadden restructuring co-head Pohl leaves for Lazard

  Dec 15 2008 Timothy Pohl who co-heads Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's corporate restructuring group, announced last week that he will leave the firm to become a managing... more

• Skadden loses only partner in Brazil

  Dec 11 2008 Just Skadden six months after Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom launched in Brazil in July this year, the firm has lost its only Sao Paulo partner Jonathan Bisgaier.... more

• Clifford Chance partners suprised by news of own departure

  Dec 05 2008 On Tuesday Warren Feldman, David Meister and John Carroll were at work in Clifford Chance's New York office, and so were a little surprised to read on The Lawyer that... more

• Clifford Chance hit by departure of four partners in New York

  Dec 02 2008 Clifford Chance's US litigation practice has been hit by the defection of four partners. New York class action partner James Moyle moves to US firm Morgan Lewis.... more

• Skadden ditches special bonus

  Nov 20 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has abandoned special bonuses for associates due to the economic downturn. Skadden executive partner Bob Sheehan sent a firm-wide... more

• Chicago law firms see increase in number of women partners

  Nov 07 2008 The Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women reported that the following firms have achieved the goal of increasing female partner ranks by three percentage points... more

• 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

• Slaughter and May, Linklaters, Freshfields top UK law firm rankings

  Sep 09 2008 Slaughter and May took the top spot in the UK for the third consecutive year. The top-ten UK law firms for prestige, as ranked in the 2009 Vault Guide to the Top 50... 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 and Sullivan & Cromwell on InBev Anheuser-Busch deal

  Jun 17 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partners Paul Schnell and Tom Greenberg have been unveiled as the partners leading the firm on the iconic InBev acquisition of... 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

• UK Associate bonuses hit 12%

  Jun 02 2008 Results of a RollOnFriday bonus survey suggest that the average bonus paid to City solicitors is 12% of salary, up nearly 4% from 2007. Skadden tops the table with... more

• Cravath, Cadwalader, and Skadden on Failed United-U.S. Airways Merger

  Jun 01 2008 After more than a month of discussions about a merger that would have created the world's largest airline, U.S. Airways and UAL Corporation, the parent of United... 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

• Some law firms cut their names down to size

  May 27 2008 To Cher, Madonna, Oprah and Prince add Howrey, Skadden, Sutherland and Winstead. It’s part of a new branding trend for law firms — to go by only one name. 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

• Deals Down by a Third or More Among U.S., U.K. Firms

  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... 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 and Wachtell seal Bear Stearns buyout

  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.... more

• Skadden starts up in Shanghai

  Feb 15 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is opening a brand in Shanghai, the New York firm’s third office in the China region. The US giant is to officially open next... 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

• N.Y. Law Firms Wanna Be Just Like Obama

  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... 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

• The American Lawyer chooses Litigation Department of the Year

  Jan 03 2008 The American Lawyer has chosen a Litigation Department of the Year for the fourth time. The Am Law 200 firms have been invited to compete for the overall title as well... 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