• October 9, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Latham and Katten Counsel $6.5 Billion Pharmaceutical Deal Eli Lilly and Co., 10th largest pharmaceutical company in the world, has acquired ImClone Systems

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  • June 16, 2003 | Legal Times

    In Brief

    SOUTHERN ROOTSEarlier this month, after 10 months of negotiations, Memphis, Tenn.-based Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell merged with Berkowitz, Lefkovits,

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  • May 19, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Correction

    Last Thursday's New Deals column, "Cravath, Sonnenschein Counsel in Dialysis Company Acquisition," misstated the location where O'Melveny & Myers attorneys Elizabeth Leckie, Daniel M. Dunn

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  • November 12, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    More Law Firms Announce Bonus Intentions

    Three additional law firms have announced their intention to give associates a "special" one-time bonus in addition to the traditional year-end bonus. Shearman & Sterling and Fried, Fran

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  • August 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    7. An Intelligent Move: IBM / Cognos

    International Business Machines Corporation was smart enough to admit that it needed help with business intelligence software. That's the speciality of Ottawa-based Cognos Inc., which IB

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  • July 19, 2004 | National Law Journal

    M&A deals double up for first half of current year

    The volume of U.S. mergers and acquisitions activity doubled in the first half of 2004, according to Thomson Financial, the business research and information group. The past six

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  • March 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Rich Are Different

    Nothing captured the spirit of the leveraged age for Wall Street law firms quite so much as the private equity "club" deal. As the name suggests, the deals at

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  • May 7, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Compensation reworked for firm stars

    CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & Hamilton managing partner Mark Walker is old-school when it comes to partner compensation. He sees no reason to change Cleary's seniority-based lockstep scheme, in

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  • May 21, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Debevoise, Cravath and Paul Weiss Advise on Communications Merger Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to merge its rural communications service with Fron

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  • March 16, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    Woman becomes name partner at Quinn Emanuel

    When Kathleen Sullivan began practicing law about 30 years ago at Cravath Swaine & Moore, there were no female litigation partners practicing at big firms. Sullivan became a name part

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