• July 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    BIG DEALS

    Novartis/Alcon Novartis AG and Nestlé S.A., two corporate giants that share Switzerland as their home base, are getting used to swapping large a

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  • March 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

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  • January 4, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Cleary, Baker Counsel $11 Billion Stock Buyback News Corporation has signed a share exchange agreement with Colorado-based Liberty Media Company that will make Liberty

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  • June 30, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    McCarter & English Plan 'Grosses Up' Workers Insuring Same-Sex Partners

    Joining a growing number of firms and companies around the country, McCarter & English has adopted a plan to offset unequal tax treatment faced by employees who cover same-sex partners in their

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  • July 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    Managing Partner, Two Others Exit Dewey for Kaye Scholer Dewey & LeBoeuf's Silicon Valley office is losing managing partner Barbara Caulfield and two other pat

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  • March 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The Rich Are Different

    Nothing captured the spirit of the leveraged age for Wall Street law firms quite so much as the private equity "club" deal. As the name suggests, the deals at

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  • September 16, 1999 | The Recorder

    N.Y. Firms Seek Valley Niche

    Top-flight technology lawyer Francis Currie made a trade: Help New York's Davis Polk & Wardwell get its Silicon Valley office off the ground, and the firm would one day send him to one of its i

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  • April 30, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Large Firm Profits Per Partner Continued to Escalate in 2007

    Despite a looming recession, most of New York's top law firms reached new economic heights in 2007, according to this year's AmLaw 100 survey of the nation's top-grossing firms, which is to be

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  • November 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    U.S. Treasury/Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae The federal government is taking over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On September 7 the government announced that the Federal Hou

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  • August 27, 2007 | Legal Times

    Keeping Score

    Shopping at A&PMcDermott Will & Emery is making moves. Last week the firm's D.C. office brought in three new tax partners, including Blake Rubin, previously the hea

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