• January 22, 2007 |

    Skadden Tops M&A Rankings

    Skadden Arps earned the top ranking among legal advisers for M&As announced worldwide for 2006 with activity totaling $767.3 billion, according to Thomson Financial. The New York-based firm ranked fourth last year. Sullivan & Cromwell took second place, advising clients on M&As worth a total of $762.9 billion, and Simpson...

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  • June 16, 2006 |

    Directors Rank Skadden as Best Corporate Firm

    Directors Rank Skadden as Best Corporate Firm For the sixth consecutive year, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom was ranked the best corporate law firm in a survey of 1,390 directors and 279 general counsel of publicly traded companies. Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting conducted the survey. Two...

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  • 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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