• January 19, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Jersey M&As Fall Again in 2010, Continuing a Four-Year Downturn

    Acquisitions involving New Jersey companies sagged in 2010, continuing a four-year-long downward trend that was offset only by two megadeals in 2009. The top 30 completed deals with New Jers

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  • November 14, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Simpson Thacher takes leads in M&As

    SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT just had the kind of summer that private equity lawyers dream about. The New York firm's two top private equity clients, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and T

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  • February 2, 2004 | Legal Times

    Inadmissible: Justice Scalia; Winstar Cases; and More

    CHENEY PLAINTIFFS GET THEIR DUCKS IN A ROWThe controversy over the early January Louisiana duck-hunting sojourn Justice Antonin Scalia took with Vice Pres

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  • October 2, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Nowadays, Law Firms Dream of Dubai

    Along Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road, construction cranes seem almost as plentiful as sand. Hotels and office buildings are going up by the dozen, and already some of the world's most recognizable

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  • April 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

    Personal Notes on Lawyers

    • Seyfarth Shaw has bolstered its labor and employment department with the addition of three attorneys from Sidley Austin. Cliff Fons

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  • December 29, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Simpson Thacher, Mayer Brown Expand in Brazil

    Brazil is a hot prospect for law firms. In the past week, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Mayer Brown have joined a growing list of firms expanding in the South American country in recent years.

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  • January 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Kinder Morgan El Paso On October 17 Kinder Morgan, Inc., agreed to pay $21 billion in cash and stock for rival natural gas pipeline operator El Paso Corporation in an acquisition tha

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  • April 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    All Business

    Four years ago, Kirkland & Ellis celebrated its 100th anniversary by issuing a glossy coffee-table book chronicling the firm's history. The book ended with a stiffly posed pi

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  • May 21, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    DLA Piper Is Bullish on Istanbul DLA Piper has set up shop in Istanbul to serve what it says are 56 percent of its top 100 clients. DLA Piper International has establish

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  • December 8, 2008 | Legal Times

    K Street Monitor

    Highlights of recent registrations filed by lobbyists with the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House. A database of registrations is available to a target="

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