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  • April 2, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Spike in M&A Litigation Could Derail That Big Deal

    Exxon Mobil Corp. had an inside track earlier this year when a Japanese energy company acquired 99 percent of its Tokyo-based subsidiary, called Exxon Mobil Yugen Kaisha. Exxon's advantage ca

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  • October 8, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Global Warming Suits

    It's old news that public nuisance theories increasingly are pleaded in an attempt to impose liability on product sellers when more traditional products liability theories would not work

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  • January 11, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    Geokinetics Inc. to buy Petroleum Geo-Services' Onshore seismic data acquisition business and related onshore seismic data library Diane Anderson, vice president and general counsel for Ho

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  • February 24, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    A Year After Joining Hunton, High-Profile Lateral Leaves Partnership

    Jonathan Simpson, the former head of the European projects practice at Paul Hastings, left that firm last February to join the London office of Hunton & Williams. A little more tha

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  • May 19, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell Lipton, Cleary Gottlieb In Water Filtration Acquisition 3M Co. said Friday it would enter the growing water filtration market by acquiring Cuno Inc. f

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  • July 27, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Mergers & Acquisitions

    NRG Buys GenOn for $1.7B NRG Energy in Princeton announced on July 23 it paid about $1.7 billion for GenOn Energy in Houston, Texas. Both provide po

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  • March 5, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Inadmissable

    A declaratory judgment suit filed by Houston-based Reliant Energy Inc. won't make new securities law after all. In January, Reliant, a power company, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Cou

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  • Charles Simon, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Keyspan Corporation, Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., Defendants-Appellees, 11-2265-cv

    Publication Date: 2012-09-25
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Walker, Lynch, and Droney, C.JJ.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Karin E. Fisch, Judith L. Spanier, Natalie S. Marcus, Abbey Spanier Rodd & Abrams, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Daniel J. Sponseller, Law Office of Daniel J. Sponseller, Sewickley, PA.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee KeySpan Corporation: John H. Lyons, Tara S. Emory, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC. For Defendant-Appellee Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc: Anthony R. Van Vuren, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Washington, DC, Jeffrey Q. Smith, Laila Abou-Rahme, Bingham McCutchen LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Jon R. Roellke, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Washington, DC. For amicus curiae American Antitrust Institute: Benjamin D. Brown, Cohen Milstein, New York, NY; Richard M. Brunell, American Antitrust Institute, Washington, DC; Christopher L. Sagers, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, J. Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein, New York, NY.
    Case Number: 11-2265-cv

    Cite as: Simon v. Keyspan Corp., 11-2265-cv, NYLJ 1202572566454, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided September 20, 2012)Before: Walker, Lynch, and Droney, C.JJ.p

  • April 15, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Akin Gump, Schulte, Jenner Advise Acquisition of Government Contractor DynCorp International, a government services contractor that has trained police in 11 count

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  • February 9, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Seeking Permanent City Council Contract, SNR Denton Heads to The Big Easy

    Who dat? SNR Denton, dat's who. The Am Law 100 firm will become one of just a few large firms with a Crescent City address when it opens an office there March 1. The move comes as t

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