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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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