• June 1, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Labor Relations

    With mergers and acquisitions at all-time levels, many employers face questions by present and prospective employees about plans for the sale or merger of their companies. While confi

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  • May 15, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Dechert cracks the code for Am Law 100 success

    Nancy Lasersohn, Dechert's chief marketing officer, pauses at a Lucite magazine rack in the firm's Philadelphia offices and notices that something is amiss. "Oh," she says, grabbing a fistful

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    The Brits Stand Tall

    Call it a return to the nine- ties-before the good times. Last year's slump in capital markets took their toll on project finance, as the combined value of closings dropped to a level unseen s

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  • April 21, 2006 | Legal Times

    Business lobby lines up against reform

    By Joe Crea, Legal Times With business lobbyists already scrambling to head off reforms that would make foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies more difficult, the recently announced $

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  • November 2, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Will Not Bar International Group's Poll-MonitoringA federal judge in Albany has refused to bar the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from monitoring poll

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  • November 20, 2006 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score

    A Sky-High MergerLawyers from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson's D.C. office are serving as antitrust counsel for US Airways in its $8 billion merger bid fo

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  • May 14, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Surging U.S. IPO Market Yields Gains for Cooley, Hunton

    U.S. companies have already raised $16.8 billion through initial public offerings so far this year, a pace not seen since the start of the financial crisis more than five years ago,

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  • September 25, 2007 | The Recorder

    In Salary Twist, Firm Pays More -- and Less

    There are really just two kinds of law firms these days: Those that pay their associates at "market," and those that don't get anywhere near it. Duval & Stachenfeld is doing both. The 50

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  • June 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    U.S. Response in KPMG Case Could Point to Appeal

    In an unusual move, federal prosecutors acknowledged last week that dismissing charges against 12 of the 16 former KPMG employees facing criminal prosecution in a high-profile tax shelter case was

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  • March 5, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Shareholders step into the ring for proxy fights

    When a New Jersey-based company called Arbinet-thexchange Inc. faced an investor's bid to replace two board members last year, one thing was guaranteed: plenty of work for lawyer

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