• September 6, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Bailout Busters

    "A narrow hole, but very, very deep." That's how one leading bankruptcy lawyer described the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s new power to take over and liquidate nonbank co

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  • June 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    DEALS IN BRIEF: Shaken and Stirred

    The first three months of 2008 were good for beverage deals in Europe, with the continent's two largest deals for the quarter in that sector. Carlsberg A/S and Heineken N.V. teamed up on

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  • November 15, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Skadden Expands in Europe Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has opened an office in Munich with two partners. Walter Henle and Bernd Mayer, ex-partners at Baker &a

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  • December 26, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    ICE gets advice from Sullivan & Cromwell and Shearman & Sterling on NYSE deal

    A landmark of American capitalism is set to change hands again and a cadre of Am Law 100 lawyers couldn't be happier about the potential bonanza in legal fees the deal could generate.

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  • November 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Skadden, S&C Advise on $11 Billion Biotech Drug Deal

    Lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom are advising biotech company Gilead Sciences as it places a mammoth bet on experimental treatments for hepatitis C. Gilead, a lead

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  • June 9, 2003 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    Movers is compiled and written by The National Law Journal's Roger Adler. Please send material to The National Law Journal, 105 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016, or e-mail: a href="ma

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  • September 23, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Antitrust Law Reshaped by Recent Reforms

    An unlikely marriage between the Department of Justice's amnesty program in price-fixing cases and the recent reform of federal class action law has had an unexpected but profound effect on ci

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  • December 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Conservatively Optimistic

    No doubt about it, leaders of Am Law 200 firms are upbeat about the future. Eighty-nine percent of respondents to our annual firm leaders survey said they are optimistic about 2006, almo

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  • September 6, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Atop the software colossus

    Name and title: Bradford L. Smith, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, head of the department of law and corporate affairs, chief compliance of

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  • December 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Just Say Pleas

    After months of delay, the much-ballyhooed U.K. Bribery Act arrived last summer. But it won't move mountains without a subtle but seismic change in Britain's legal superstructure. What the United K

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