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  • May 14, 2007 |

    Schulte Roth joins NY giants on Chrysler sale

    New York outfit Schulte Roth & Zabel has bagged a lead role alongside Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy, Shearman & Sterling and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom on Cerberus' acquisition of DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division in a €5.5bn (£3.8bn) deal. Schulte Roth and Milbank are representing the US buy-out house on M&A and financing of the bid respectively, while Shearman and Skadden are representing DaimlerChrysler on the sale.

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  • May 11, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 11/5/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; plus the best of the blogs, readers' comments and A&O litigation head Andrew Clark on lookalike nuns.

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  • May 10, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 10/5/2007

    Today's five most popular stories on legalweek.com, led by the bumper results for City firms in 2007; plus the best reader posts of the day and a Legal Village debut from Kirkland's Stephen Gillespie.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    US giant Skadden gears up for European class action onslaught

    America's largest law firm, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, has launched a class action defence practice in the UK in preparation for what it believes could be an onslaught of group actions across Europe.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    City duo boost as M&A soars to record level

    Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of firms to benefit this week from two major M&A mandates worth more than $10bn (£5bn), as research shows 2007 is on course to smash all deal records.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    Milbank bags E1.45bn Veolia deal

    New York duo Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and White & Case have bagged roles on French water giant Veolia Environnement's A1.45bn (£987m) acquisition of Sulo Group from Apax and Blackstone.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    Skadden raid heralds Cravath insolvency launch

    New York leader Cravath Swaine & Moore has launched a restructuring practice after making a rare lateral hire, swooping on New York rival Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom for partner Richard Levin. Levin, who will join the elite Manhattan firm on 1 July, will head the firm's new restructuring and insolvency practice.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    NY giants line up for News Corp's Dow Jones bid

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is among a raft of New York firms to have bagged roles on News Corporation's $5bn (£2.5bn) unsolicited bid for Dow Jones. Skadden is representing News Corporation, fielding a team out of its Manhattan base headed by M&A partners Lou Kling and Howard Ellin.

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  • May 8, 2007 |

    Skadden, Stikeman set for $33bn mining mega-deal

    New York deal-machine Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Canadian leader Stikeman Elliott have bagged plum roles advising mining giant Alcoa on its $33bn (£16.5bn) hostile bid for rival Alcan. New York corporate partners David Fox, Margaret Wolff and Neil Stronski are spearheading the Skadden team acting for Alcoa, while Stikeman chairman Pierre Raymond is leading for the Canadian outfit alongside Montreal corporate partners Marc Barbeau and Erik Richer La Fleche.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Embattled Wolfowitz calls in Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom litigation partner Robert Bennett has been called in by Paul Wolfowitz as the embattled World Bank chief fights to keep his job. Washington DC-based Bennett co-heads of the New York firm's international government enforcement litigation group. He has previously advised high-profile clients including former US president Bill Clinton after he was accused of sexual harassment.

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