• April 15, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    Loeb Fires Back Sotheby's Board in Auction House Row

    Hedge fund activist Daniel Loeb has told the board of directors of Sotheby's that contrary to their views, he is exactly the man to advise them on how to run the venerable auction

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  • April 10, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    Davis Polk, Cahill, S&C Handle Year's Biggest IPO to Date

    Three years after first filing to go public in a bid to repay a $17.2 billion federal government bailout, Ally Financial, the former finance arm of auto giant General Motors, a href="http:/

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  • Thoryk v. San Diego Gas & Electric Company

    Publication Date: 2014-04-09
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    Date Filed: 2014-04-09
    Court: C.A. 4th
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chapin Fitzgerald, Douglas J. Brown and Edward D. Chapin for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Freeland McKinley & McKinley, Steven A. McKinley and Karen G. McKinley for Intervener and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. D062680

    Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 3858 PAUL THORYK, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SAN DIEGO GAS & EL

  • March 31, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    One Analysis Shows Activist Shareholders May be A Boon

    With all the talk about the impact of activist investors, there appears to be some evidence that their actions do, in fact, benefit shareholders. a href="http://www.bloomberg.c

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  • March 31, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    The Activist Shareholders Wachtell's Lipton Likes

    Martin Lipton, it turns out, can articulate a grudging respect for a few activist investors if pressed. During a session at this year's Corporate Law institute gathering at

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  • US v. Gupta, 12-4448

    Publication Date: 2014-03-27
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Newman, Kearse, and Pooler, C. JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, Edward B. Diskant, Justin S. Weddle, Assistant United States Attorneys, New York, New York, on the brief, Richard C. Tarlowe, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Paul R.Q. Wolfson, Megan Barbero, Daniel Aguilar, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Washington, D.C.; Gary P. Naftalis, David S. Frankel, Alan R. Friedman, Robin M. Wilcox, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, New York, New York; Peter G. Neiman, Alan E. Schoenfeld, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, New York, New York, on the brief, Seth P. Waxman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: 12-4448

    Cite as: US v. Gupta, 12-4448, NYLJ 1202648429238, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided March 25, 2014) 12-4448 Before: Newman, Kearse, and Pooler, C. JJ.

  • March 26, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    Loeb Escalates Sotheby's Battle by Suing Auction House

    Daniel Loeb's Third Point hedge fund has sued one of the companies in which it owns a stake, Sotheby's, in an effort to undo the so-called poison pill shareholder rights plan the auc

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  • March 20, 2014 | New York Law Journal

    The Herbalife Circus

    You can't make this stuff up. Reality is more bizarre than fiction. Good as "House of Cards" or "Game of Thrones" are, they cannot match the Herbalife battle for the

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  • March 20, 2014 | The American Lawyer

    New Deals

    Jenner Block, Debevoise Advise On $2.5 billion Hertz Unit Spin-off Jenner Block and Debevoise

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  • March 19, 2014 | International

    Loeb & Loeb Adds Hong Kong Partner

    Loeb & Loeb has hired a partner in Hong Kong. Jae Chul Lee joins the firm from DLA Piper, where he was a Hong Kong–based partner advising on Korea-related transac

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