• January 1, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Manulife / John Hancock

    In one of the biggest deals in Canadian M&A history, Toronto's Manulife Financial Corporation is acquiring Boston-based John Hancock Financial Services, Inc., for more than $11 billion in

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  • May 11, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Sam Wyly Loses Another Bid to Challenge Computer Associates Settlement

    Billionaire Sam Wyly and his lawyers at Bickel & Brewer have done just about everything possible to discredit a $143 million settlement Computer Associates reached with shareholders in 2003. They

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  • November 24, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Securities Fraud Suits Against Public Companies Resurface

    Plaintiffs lawyers are slapping public companies with securities class actions months or years after the date the alleged fraud came to light as they turn their attention from cases related to the

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  • December 24, 2012 | The Recorder

    Ninth Circuit Revives $1.8 Billion VeriFone Securities Class Action

    Scott Graham is a senior writer covering the California appellate courts for The Recorder, an American Lawyer affiliate. Pleading standards for securities fraud cases may

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  • October 20, 1999 | Daily Report Online

    Counsel Comes South To Test Fairness in Ga. Death Cases

    Picturing the sort of Georgian likely to be represented by a huge New York firm, you might not think of someone like Scott L. Christenson.Christenson needed a lawyer because, it is said, one

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  • January 7, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Kasowitz Client ACA Targets Goldman Over ABACUS Deal

    Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman has been carving a niche representing parties with claims against big banks arising from the financial crisis. It's brought suits against a href="http://w

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  • NML Capital, Ltd. v. Banco Central de la Rep�blica Argentina, 10-1487-cv(L)

    Publication Date: 2011-07-07
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Miner, Cabranes, and Straub, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC (Matthew D. McGill, Jason J. Mendro, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC; Robert A. Cohen, Dennis H. Hranitzky, Dechert LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee NML Capital, Ltd. David W. Rivkin (John B. Missing and Suzanne M. Grosso, on the brief), Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee EM Ltd. Michele Kalstein, Counsel and Vice President (Thomas C. Baxter, Jr., General Counsel, on the brief), The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY, for amicus curiae The Federal Reserve Bank of New York in support of Appellants. John D. Clopper, Assistant United States Attorney (Preet Bharara, United States Attorney, Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY; Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Sharon Swingle, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; George W. Madison, General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC; Harold Hongju Koh, The Legal Adviser, Department of State, Washington, DC, on the brief), for amicus curiae United States of America in support of Appellants. Hal S. Scott, Program on International Financial Systems, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, amicus curiae in support of Appellees.
    for defendant: Jonathan I. Blackman (Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Christopher P. Moore, Rahul Mukhi, on the brief), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant The Republic of Argentina. Joseph E. Neuhaus (Laurent S. Wiesel, Michael J. Ushkow, Taly Dvorkis, on the brief), Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY, for Interested Non-Party-Appellant Banco Central de la República Argentina.

    Case Number: 10-1487-cv(L)

    Cite as: NML Capital, Ltd. v. Banco Central de la Rep�blica Argentina, 10-1487-cv(L), NYLJ 1202499451081, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided July 5, 2011)Before: Miner, Ca

  • February 23, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    In a much-anticipated $9.8 billion transaction, New York-based BlackRock, Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. announced that they will merge Merrill Lynch's investment management bu

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  • May 6, 2002 | Legal Times

    Sympathy for the Devil?

    Defense lawyer Russell "Rusty" Hardin holds a markedly different hand for the start of Arthur Andersen's trial than the one he held just seven weeks ago, when he sought a speedy trial for his clien

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  • December 15, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    DOJ Files Civil Suit Against BP and Other Oil Spill Defendants; Plaintiffs Lawyers Welcome Feds to New Orleans MDL

    The United States government has finally entered the litigation fray over the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Eight months after oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, Attorney General E

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