• October 22, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    NY Partners and Associates Closing Billion Dollar Deals

    Shearman, Willkie Counsel Bloomberg Acquisition of BusinessWeek MagazineBloomberg L.P., has entered an agreement to purchase BusinessWeek magazine from its

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  • July 16, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

    Why Are More Companies Self-Reporting Overseas Bribes?

    Baker Hughes Inc.'s bribery nightmare first became public in 2002, when a former employee filed a civil suit against the company in Texas. The worker claimed that he'd been fired from the global oi

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  • September 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    News In Brief

    CUNY Law Set to Move to Long Island City in Fall 2011 Editor's Note: This item has been updated to reflect a a target="new" hr

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Banking on China

    Anthony Root spent much of this year working in a room without windows-and, after 6 p.m., without air-conditioning-in a dim Beijing office tower that locals call "the black turd." Hardly the t

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  • February 11, 2002 | Daily Report Online

    Learning From the Last Recession: Nation's Firms Show More Agility

    Nathan Koppel [email protected] The December collections frenzy is now a memory. If the check was really in the mail, it's arrived and been counted. Firms have paid las

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  • March 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Expansion-Minded Law Firms Look to Korea

    As a boy, Justin Chang remembers his attorney father advising Korean-based companies. Long before Hyundai and Samsung were household names here, Korean executives would visit Chang's home near Los

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  • July 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Secret Weapon

    On May 6, inside a sprawling court building in central Milan, a dozen attorneys and a scrum of reporters crammed into a courtroom for the opening day of a high-profile

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  • January 31, 2002 | The American Lawyer

    How Bad Is It?

    The December collections frenzy is now a memory. If the check was really in the mail, it's arrived and been counted. Firms have paid last year's bills, written their year-end bonus checks (if

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  • December 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    The five largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six European jurisdictions or regions: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy,

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  • July 19, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Shearman, Wachtell, O'MelvenyIn $10.6 Billion Chemicals Deal Huntsman Corporation, a chemicals producer, has been purchased by Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., an Apollo M

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