• April 14, 2006 |

    Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Top M&A Ranking

    Having completed 12 deals worth more than $81 billion, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz topped the list of legal counsel for completed mergers, according to a Global Securities Information report. The report ranked firms by the highest total transaction value of mergers and acquisitions for the first quarter of 2006....

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  • January 20, 2006 |

    Sullivan Cromwell tops M&A list

    According to Global Securities Information Inc., a legal and financial research firm, Sullivan Cromwell finished 2005 as the firm responsible for the highest total transaction value of completed M&As. Sullivan Cromwell completed 51 deals totaling more than $168 billion in 2005. The following is the full ranking by total transaction...

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  • Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP v. Six Flags Over Ga. LLC

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Buford, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, John J. Dalton Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler and Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, N.Y., for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Butler Jr., George W. Fryhofer III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daugherty & Sullivan, Albert M. Pearson III Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, H. Lamar Mixson, Michael B. Terry, Nancy J. Walsh and Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Davidson & Tucker LLP, Duluth.

    Case Number: A00A0120

    The Court of Appeals overruled Kent v. A. O. White Jr., Consulting Engineers PC, A01A0756 1/29/02, 02 FCDR 374, to the extent that it held that the Georgia Supreme Court adopted the standard set for

  • Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP v. Six Flags Over Ga. LLC

    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler, Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George W. Fryhofer III Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daughtery & Sullivan, H. Lamar Mixon, Michael B. Terry, Nancy L. Johnson, Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, James E. Butler Jr., Albert M. Pearson III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daughtery & Sullivan, Columbus, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Anderson, Davidson & Tate, Lawrenceville.

    Case Number: A00A0120

    Theme park's general partner breached its fiduciary duty by making bad faith decisions as to the amount and type of capital improvements the theme park would re

  • September 28, 2001 | The American Lawyer

    2001 Associates Survey: From Akin Gump to Kramer Levin

    A| B | C | D | E | F | G | H | |

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  • August 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Cravath's Gas Pains Persist

    PHILADELPHIA - Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas Inc. can move forward with its breach of fiduciary duty claims against Cravath Swaine & Moore now that a federal judge in Philadel

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  • August 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Airgas' Suit Against Cravath Can Proceed

    Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas Inc. can move forward with its breach of fiduciary duty claims against Cravath Swaine & Moore now that a federal judg

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  • August 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Airgas' Suit Against Cravath Can Proceed

    Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas Inc. can move forward with its breach of fiduciary duty claims against Cravath Swaine & Moore now that a federal judge in Philadelphia said the company sufficiently ple

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  • December 6, 1999 | The American Lawyer

    A Passion For Organization

    Once, in sleepier times, the top New York law firms didn't forage for the best law students, didn't dismiss associates who were unworthy of partnership, and didn't even deem it necessary to pay tho

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  • February 19, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Airgas, Cravath Set to Face Off in Federal Court

    Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas says its former law firm broke at least one of two Pennsylvania professional responsibility rules regarding conflicts when it dropped Airgas as a client in order to represe

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