• March 31, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Dewey, Davis Polk, Morgan Lewis Advise eBay's $2.4 Billion GSI Buy Online marketplace eBay has agreed to purchase e-commerce and Internet marketing provider GSI Commerce

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  • July 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Dealmaking

    While the pace of M&A activity has been subdued, the significance of contractual developments in dealmaking has been pronounced. Over the past year, the difficulty of the credit markets has res

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  • August 12, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Davis Polk, Paul Weiss Represent BMG, Sony in Music Company Deal Sony Music Entertainment and BMG announced a merger July 5 that will combine the two companies to

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  • September 16, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Fried Frank, Simpson Thacher Advise In $1.52 Billion Ad Agency AcquisitionAdvertising giant WWP plc announced Sept. 13 it would acquire independent advertising agency

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Dealmaking in 2007 had a distinctly Jekyll-and-Hyde feel. Up to mid-summer, the deal environment was as crowded and frothy as the morning rush at a Times Square Starbucks. Private equity buyer

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  • March 20, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Bank's firms lose a key client

    The bargain-basement sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to JPMorgan Chase & Co. brought out some of the biggest names in the legal profession. Sullivan & Cromwell; Skadden, Arps, Slate

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  • February 11, 2011 | The Careerist

    Fat Bonuses? Yes. Partnership? Fat Chance!

    I don't get the logic: Big firms are lavishing associates with fat bonuses again, while, at the same time, signaling that their chances for partnership are worse than ever. Are firms sending as

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  • September 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals In Brief / Private Equity: Finally, Some Action

    Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus / Interactive Data Silver Lake Partners, L.P., and Warburg Pincus LLC teamed up to buy all of Interactive Data Corporation for $3.4 billion in a deal

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  • January 7, 2009 | International Edition

    Linklaters announces bonus cutbacks for U.S. associates

    Linklaters has confirmed its 2008 year-end bonuses for U.S. associates -- m

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  • October 7, 2002 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible

    GLOBAL EX-GC SAYS HE PUSHED CAUTION James Gorton, the former general counsel of Global Crossing Ltd., faced the corporate scourges and scolds on the House Energy and Commerce Com

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