• September 6, 2007 | Bloomberg

    Global takeover fees are not feeling the bite of subprimes

    FORGET ABOUT HENRY KRAVIS and Stephen Schwarzman. Mergers and acquisitions may set a worldwide record of more than $3.57 trillion before this year ends without a mega-deal from the kings of l

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  • May 3, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    Texas' Top Deals of 2003

    CAREMARK RX INC. Acquisition of ADVANCEPCS Description: Acquisition of AdvancePCS, of Irving, by Caremark RX Inc., of Birmingham, Ala., in a deal valued at about $6 billio

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  • September 30, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Activision Blizzard / Vivendi Activision Blizzard Inc. took advantage of Vivendi SA's restructuring by agreeing on July 26 to buy back a 35 percent s

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  • June 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Sullivan & Cromwell Wins Appeal in Banks' Megasuit over MBIA Restructuring; Decision Revives Fraudulent Conveyance Claims Challenging $5.4 Billion Deal

    The moment everyone's been waiting for in the titanic multi-jurisdictional battle over MBIA's controversial 2009 restructuring has finally arrived, and with it all of MBIA's hopes of limiting the

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  • August 31, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Plaintiffs' firms unite on shareholder rights

    A rare joint letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from a group of defense law firms over shareholder proxy access received an even rarer response from nine of the coun

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  • February 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Blackstone Buys and Spins Off Eight New York City Office Buildings Shortly after acquiring Equity Office Properties Trust, the Blackstone Group LP has begun to take it apart. B

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  • January 1, 2013 | International

    Big Deals

    The largest recent transactions, all worth at least $500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six Asian jurisdictions or regions: Greater China, Japan, Southeast A

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  • December 12, 2005 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Bingham McCutchen to acquire Swidler Berlin Bingham McCutchen plans to acquire ailing Washington law firm Swidler Berlin by the beginning of next year, a Bingham spokesman

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  • November 18, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Wachtell Represent $4.3 Billion Shale Gas Transaction Seeking to expand its resources in shale gas, Chevron Corporation has a definitive agreem

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  • February 1, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals and Suits

    Welsh, Carson Thoma CresseySelect Medical Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe can't get enough of Select Medical Corporation. Seven years ago Welsh, Carson and another private

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