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• Cravath sued over role in Air Products' $5.1 bn Airgas bid

  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... more

• 90-year-old veteran prosecutor Morgenthau joins Wachtell

  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... more

• Allen & Overy advises Novartis on $28bn Alcon acquisition

  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. US firms... more

• Wachtell, O’Melveny advise Apollo on $2.4bn Cedar Fair deal

  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... 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

• Wachtell replaced by Jones Day in Satyam shareholder suit

  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... more

• Wachtell and Shearman face SEC action after failed Bank of America settlement

  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... 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

• Wachtell advises BB&T on Colonial Bancgroup takeover

  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... 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

• Top US law firms avoid deferrals

  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;... more

• Davis Polk, Wachtell, Cravath advise on Citi-Morgan broker merger

  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... more

• Linklaters tops M&A league as deal volume plunges 38 Percent

  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... more

• Wachtell promotes six to partnership

  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... more

• Wachtell, Sullivan & Cromwell step up for Morgan Stanley

  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... more

• Wachtell Urges Action Against Short Sellers Wall Street

  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)... more

• Wachtell, Shearman head up $50bn Merrill takeover

  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... more

• Wachtell advises US Treasury on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac takeover

  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... more

• Top law firms excel in sexual diversity index

  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... 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

• Law Firm Wachtell Urges SEC To Be More Aggressive In Attacking Rumors

  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... more

• Shearman, Wachtell lead on $19bn chemicals sale

  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... more

• Magic circle trio break into profits top 10 as City firms move up Global 100

  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... 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• Clifford Chance celebrates $14bn Chinalco corporate coup

  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... more