• November 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Who Got the Work?

    For big-firm lawyers, there's gold in the privateequity boom. Leveraged buyouts totaling $209 billion were announced in the first eight months of 2006, according to the research service M

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  • September 1, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Summer Slots Dry Up, but Firms Still Uncertain How Deep Cuts Will Go

    With their on-campus interviews largely wrapped up, law firms are sorting through resumes to choose the select few who will get offers to fill the

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  • April 15, 2011 | New York Lawyer

    Ex-Associate Charged in 17-Year Scam Out on Bail

    NEWARK, N.J.— A former lawyer accused of being the inside man in a $34 million insider trading scheme left a federal court in New Jersey on bail Friday. Matthew Kluger/str

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  • January 26, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Novartis Settles Wage-Hour Class Action for $99 Million

    Novartis has agreed to pay $99 million to settle a consolidated wage-and-hour class action brought by current and former sales representatives at the drug company. The plaintiffs, represented by Sa

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  • July 13, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Foley, LeBoeuf Lamb Advise $1.5 Billion Energy Corporation Deal Electric and gas utility company WPS Resources Corporation has purchased natural gas distributor

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  • May 12, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Sonnenschein Counsel In Dialysis Company Acquisition The world's largest provider of dialysis services Fresenius Medical Care AG announced May 4 it would pur

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  • December 2, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Gibson Dunn, Simpson Thacher Advise on Pet Food Deal An investment group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. will acquire Del Monte Foods Company for $5.3 billion,

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  • May 29, 2003 | The Recorder

    Quinn's Quest

    One morning in December, Kenneth Chiate got a frantic phone call from a man who was suing Prudential Life Insurance Co. for defamation.Two weeks into a jury trial, he feared his

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  • February 19, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Latham, Willkie, Wachtell Lipton Advise on Entertainment Merger Concert promoter Live Nation Inc. and the nation's No. 1 ticket distributor, Ticketmaster In

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  • July 23, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    NY Lawyers Closing Billion Dollar Deals

    Skadden, Paul Weiss and Wachtell Counsel $3 Billion CIT Refinancing DealCIT Group negotiated a late-night lifeline with its bondholders Sunday that is intended to k

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