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  • September 16, 2005 | The Recorder

    Acquisition News

    ORACLE'S ACQUISITION OF SIEBEL SYSTEMSQuestion: What does one serial acquirer buying out another equal? Answer: A really big deal.That's what lawyers at Davis Polk &

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  • January 17, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Downward Spiral

    The year-end tally of deal activity confirms the worst for some of Silicon Valley's most prominent firms: Corporate work dropped off a cliff in 2001. At firms most identified wit

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  • December 7, 2007 | The Recorder

    Cooley Taps 12 New Partners

    Cooley Godward Kronish announced Wednesday the promotion of 12 new partners, nine of them in California.Seven of the new partners are business lawyers, three are litigators, one is an

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  • November 12, 2009 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    For coffee-guzzling deal lawyers, it's kind of convenient when a merger client is a tasty coffee maker. Kenneth Guernsey , a partner at C

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  • February 17, 2010 | The Recorder

    Cooley Handles $1.2B Pharma Joint Venture

    SAN FRANCISCO — Robert Jones led a Cooley Godward Kronish team that secured a billion-dollar deal for South San Francisco-based Rigel Pharmaceuticals and its drug that treats rheumatoid arthri

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  • November 22, 2002 | The Recorder

    Desperately Seeking Startups

    Tech startups, the once-dazzling clients that made every law firm in Silicon Valley salivate, seem about as glamorous these days as a trip to Kmart.That doesn't mean lawyers are turnin

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  • June 3, 2008 | The Recorder

    $160M Added to Brocade's Backdating Bill

    Though Brocade Communications agreed on Monday to fork over a record $160 million to settle a civil backdating class action, Larry Sonsini isn't quite in the clear. The com

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  • January 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    By Paring Back Costs, Calif. Firms Held the Line on Profits

    Eyes fixed on costs, Northern California's leaner and meaner large law firms saw revenues, and profits, remain mostly flat in 2009. Gone are the days of double-digit increases. But gone too

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  • September 18, 2008 | The Recorder

    Discovery disaster threatens to derail case against former McAfee GC

    Ten hours before openings in the government's stock option case against a former McAfee general counsel, attorneys on both sides got a surprise: a set of previously undisclosed e-mails

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  • July 1, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    Altheimer & Gray to merge or dissolveFacing a cash-flow crunch, Altheimer & Gray has decided to reorganize, a move that could lead to a merger with another firm or the c

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