• July 28, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    With Ebbers Sentenced, Others Await Their Penalty

    WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers has received a stiff penalty as the prime mover in a $11 billion accounting fraud at the telecommunications giant. However, five other executives are still waiting

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  • April 11, 2003 |

    $664,394 Fidelity Management & Research Co. Clifford Chance; Dechert; Hale and Dorr; Kirkpatrick & Lockhart NA Kirkpatrick & Lockhart;

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Metal Heads

    Never mind that Rio Tinto plc didn't want BHP Billiton to take it over. The $164 billion hostile bid itself signaled that something was changing in the mining sector. The bid is more tha

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  • July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    The A-List 2008: Rarefied Air

    It's A-List season at The American Lawyer. For the sixth year, we applied the A-List algorithm to The Am Law 200 to determine the firms that best embody what it means to be

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  • September 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Waste of Money?

    Last January, most firms in The Am Law 100 thought that they had closed the books on their annual associate bonus decisions when Sullivan & Cromwell suddenly upped the ante. On a Friday afterno

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  • March 31, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Prudence Presumption Favors Swiss Bank in ERISA Challenge

    UBS AG and UBS Financial Services cannot be held liable for the damage done to employee retirement plans when its stock price plummeted amid revelations about its massive exposure to subprime mortg

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  • March 27, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Corporate Scorecard 2009 Corporate Debt

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  • March 27, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Corporate Scorecard 2009 Equities

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  • November 8, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Queens DA Says Calmer Atmosphere Encourages PleasIn an effort to encourage pre-indictment pleas, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown is offering to discuss pleas in pendin

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  • March 15, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Davis Polk, Cleary, Sullivan & Cromwell Advise on Treasury's AIG Stock Offering The U.S. Department of Treasury has launched an offering of $6 billion of its A

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