• October 4, 2007 | The Recorder

    Goodwin Procter Bags Wilson Sonsini's Venture Unit

    Goodwin Procter has stolen Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's venture fund formation group. Wilson partners Jonathan Axelrad and Robert Fore and of counsel Gerald Chacon Jr. joined the B

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  • December 27, 2006 | Alm

    Busy M&A Market Makes Real Estate Attorneys Deal Makers

    Real estate attorneys, long known as "dirt lawyers," are adopting more of the deal-making skills of their corporate counterparts as they get pulled deeper into the real estate sector's surging

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  • January 3, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Real Estate Attorneys Become Corporate Dealmakers

    Real estate attorneys, long known as "dirt lawyers," are adopting more of the deal-making skills of their corporate counterparts as they get pulled deeper into the real estate sector's surging

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  • March 8, 2013 | Bloomberg

    Low-profile REITs grab deal spotlight

    Nonlisted real estate investment trusts raised $83 billion in the past decade. Now, as the U.S. real estate market rebounds and they face deadlines to return money to investors, the companies

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  • September 15, 2008 | Legal Times

    Leading Lawyers in Real Estate: Build It and They Will Come

    When Legal Times compiled its first list of real estate Leading Lawyers in 2003, one practitioner gleefully exclaimed, “This is the best real estate market in th

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  • April 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief/REITs

    Real estate M&A enjoyed an excellent 2012, and the pace quickened in the first quarter of this year. Deals of $100 million or more increased by 13 percent on an annualized basis over last

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  • March 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Deals in Brief: Stayin' Alive

    Last year's credit crunch had the same dampening effect on real estate deals as on leveraged buyouts. According to Dealogic, M&A activity in the real estate investment trust sector f

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  • May 1, 2006 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    'Junkets for judges' are on the rise, report shows Despite negative publicity about "junkets for judges" in recent years, a watchdog group reports that more federal judges

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  • October 8, 2012 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Goodwin Procter (Boston): Laura Rupenian joins the firm's business law department as partner in the San Francisco office a

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  • February 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Law firms slashing jobs

    The layoff announcements just kept coming on Thursday, one after another. All told, six law firms dismissed more than 700 staffers and attorneys in a single day. Layoffs occur

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