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• Cravath takes Airgas case to federal court and strikes back

  Feb 17 2010 In Airgas v. Cravath Swaine & Moore, Airgas is seeking to stop Cravath Swaine & Moore from representing Air Products, alleging that there was a conflict of interest... more

• Cravath: Airgas claims a bunch of hot air

  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... more

• 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

• Cravath Reverses Course on Deferred Associates

  Feb 03 2010 Cravath, Swaine & Moore has informed law students who summered at the firm last year that some of them can start this fall, one year earlier than planned under a... more

• Top Cravath litigator Robert Joffe dies at 66

  Jan 29 2010 Robert Joffe of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, presiding partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1999 to 2006, died Thursday from cancer at 66. Joffe graduated from... 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

• 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

• 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

• Cravath incoming first-years asked to delay start dates

  Mar 11 2009 Wall Street law firm Cravath Swaine Moore is asking their incoming first-years to delay start dates for a few months, follwong other firms like Latham & Watkins, White... 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

• Cravath, Swaine & Moore cuts bonuses

  Nov 22 2008 Cravath, Swaine & Moore announced reduced end-of-year associate bonuses last week in a memo to its staff. The numbers are down sharply from last year. The bonuses... more

• Cravath withdraws as pro bono counsel following claim of altered tape

  Nov 05 2008 Cravath, Swaine & Moore has withdrawn as pro bono counsel for a convict who won a new trial on the basis of another man’s audiotaped murder confession that is now... 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

• Cravath, Davis Polk acting on $70bn cash lifeline set up after Lehman collapse

  Sep 16 2008 Cravath Swaine & Moore and Davis Polk & Wardwell have won places advising JP Morgan Chase and Citibank on the creation of the $70bn (£39.6bn) liquidity facility set up... more

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Taps Cravath for ImClone Deal

  Aug 01 2008 Cravath, Swaine & Moore is advising Bristol-Myers Squibb on the planned acquisition of the rest of ImClone Systems, the maker of the best-selling cancer drug Erbitux,... more

• Simpson, Weil, Linklaters, Cravath on KKR’s landmark dual listing

  Jul 30 2008 The world’s elite firms are jostling for position on Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s (KKR) landmark dual listing in Amsterdam and New York. A team from Simpson Thacher &... 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

• 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

• Cravath, Paul Weiss lead $9bn Time Warner cable sale

  May 23 2008 Cravath Swaine & Moore and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison have bagged lead roles on the divestment by by Time Warner of its cable division in a $9.25bn deal, as... 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

• A&O NY lands $39bn trophy Novartis-Alcon mandate

  Apr 08 2008 Allen & Overy (A&O) has bagged a lead advisory role opposite Cravath Swaine & Moore on the sale of eye-care company Alcon to Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis – a... 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

• Cravath sends US veteran John Beerbower to build London disputes practice

  Jan 09 2008 Cravath Swaine & Moore senior litigation partner John Beerbower has moved to the firm's London office to spearhead the dispute resolution practice in the capital. The... more

• Law Firms Racing To Boast Best Pay for Associates

  Nov 02 2007 The race is on to see which of the city's top law firms will boast the best-paid associate. As is common when it comes to law firm pay, the going is neck and neck.... more

• Cravath, Swaine & Moore Is Giving Its Associates Two Year-End Bonuses

  Nov 01 2007 Cravath, Swaine & Moore has raised the salary bar for law firm associates in Manhattan. The firm has announced that it will award a special one-time bonus for... more