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  • February 29, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Avengers

    Onlookers crowded the aisles and doorway of the Manhattan courtroom of Justice Eileen Bran­sten on October 5. The New York state court judge normally wouldn't have allowed a

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  • August 31, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Associates Survey 2010: Firms from L to Z

    Purchase the electronic version of the 2

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  • August 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    BLACKROCK/BARCLAYS BlackRock, Inc., announced on June 11 that it had agreed to pay Barclays plc $13.5 billion in cash and st

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  • Viking Global Equities, LP v. Porsche Automobil Holding SE, 650435/11

    Publication Date: 2012-12-31
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    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Before: Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Renwick, Richter, Roman, JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellant: Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. of Counsel.
    for defendant: Respondents: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, Marc L. Greenwald of counsel and Dowd Bennett LLP, St. Louis, MO, James F. Bennett of the bar of the State of Missouri, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel, for Viking Global Equities, LP, Viking Global Equities II LP, and VGE III Portfolio Ltd. Respondents: Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C., New York, David Parker of counsel, and Bartlit Beck Herman Plaenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, IL (James B. Heaton, III of the bar of the State of Illinois, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for Glenhill Capital LP; Glenhill Capital Overseas Masters Fund LP; Glenhill Concentrated Fund LP; Glenview Capital Partners, L.P.; Glenview Institutional Partners, L.P.; Glenview Capital Master Fund, Ltd.; GCM Little Arbor Partners, L.P.; GCM Little Arbor Institutional Partners, L.P.; GCM Little Arbor Master Fund, Ltd.; GCM Opportunity Fund, L.P.; Glenview Capital Opportunity Fund, L.P.; Glenview Offshore Opportunity Master Fund, Ltd.; Greenlight Capital, L.P.; Greenlight Capital Qualified, L.P.; Greenlight Capital Offshore Partners; Greenlight Reinsurance, Ltd.; Royal Capital Value Fund, LP; Royal Capital Value Fund (QP), LP; RoyalCap Value Fund, Ltd.; RoyalCap Value Fund II, Ltd.; Tiger Global, L.P.; Tiger Global II, L.P.; and Tiger Global, Ltd. Mayer Brown LLP, New York, Andrew J. Pincus of counsel, The Federation of German Industries, German Issuers, The Association of German Banks, The Swiss Bankers Association and The European Banking Federation, Economiesuisse, Mouvement Des Entreprises De France, for amici curiae. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., Costa Mesa, CA (Mary-Christine Sungaila of the bar of the State of California, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for German and American Law Professors, amici curiae.
    Case Number: 650435/11

    Cite as: Viking Global Equities, LP v. Porsche Automobil Holding SE, 650435/11, NYLJ 1202582751301, at *1 (App. Div., 1st, Decided December 27, 2012)Befor

  • August 4, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Brief of the Week: In a capital case, trying to correct a law firm's mistake

    The case of Cory Maples, which has for years represented every big law firm's worst nightmare, is now before the Supreme Court. It asks whether Maples, on death row in Alabama, can be executed

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  • October 1, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    OAD to Present Awards to Scheck, Shechtman

    The Office of the Appellate Defender will hold its 20th Anniversary First Monday in October fundraising event on Oct. 7 at the New York University School of Law's Vanderbilt Hall at 40 W

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  • January 18, 2012 | International

    Does Japan Still Matter to International Law Firms?

    Talk to members of Tokyo's international legal community these days, and you hear a common refrain: Life is elsewhere. "We're a backwater now," says David Sneider, head of the Toky

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  • November 15, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Index of firms

    Adams and Reese (161) Akerman Senterfitt (97) Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (18) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory (197) Alston & Bird (39) And

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  • June 22, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Cash Flow

    Sullivan & Cromwell's H. Rodgin Cohen and Mitchell Eitel have been teaming up on banking deals for a couple decades now, but they didn't have a playbook for the assignment they received from Me

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  • July 29, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Bracewell, Sullivan Are Among Firms Tapped for $7 Billion BP Asset Sell-Off Distressed oil giant BP plc has agreed to sell $7 billion

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