• November 20, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    The Untouchables

    When Marc Manly, then general counsel of the midwestern energy firm Cinergy Corp., first learned of his company's possible merger with Duke Energy Corp. last year, he knew who he wanted in his

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  • January 28, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Boies Schiller Partner Named to Discipline Panel

    Nicholas Gra administrative partner and general firm counsel at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, has been appointed to the First Department Disciplinary Committee, an unpaid position. Gra

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  • July 28, 2008 | Law.com

    KKR to List on New York Stock Exchange

    Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange later this year via a share s

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  • December 12, 2006 | Alm

    Name Partner Schulman Exits Milberg Weiss

    Steven Schulman, a name partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, resigned from the embattled class action powerhouse Friday, seven months after he and another partner were indicted in

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  • January 17, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell, Cleary, K&L Gates, Advise $4 Billion Mortgage-Lender Buy Bank of America has purchased the troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock.

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  • December 8, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Hey, Big Spender

    The $6.6 billion buyout of Toys "R" Us Inc., by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bain Capital LLC, and Vornado Realty Trust in March was not the biggest deal of 2005. Yet many lawyers were r

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  • April 25, 2008 | Legal Times

    Companies Want Apartheid Case Tossed

    Conference Call is prepared by the law firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Howe & Russell, which together publish the Supreme Court weblog. Tom Goldstein, who is the head of Su

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  • May 20, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Wachtell Partner Departs for Latham's New York Office

    With by far the highest profits per partner in the world, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz sits atop the profession as the Mount Olympus of corporate law firms. Of all the law firm partners

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  • December 9, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Cravath, Clifford Chance Handle Acquisition of China PC-Maker IBM Corp. announced Dec. 7 it would sell a controlling share of its Personal Computing Division to Lenovo

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  • April 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    World Class

    Alexander Aleinikoff, dean of The Georgetown University Law Center, likes to boast that by this fall he's going to have the equivalent of nin

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