• August 7, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Lawyers on Major Transactions

    Simpson Thacher, Sullivan Advise On Insurance Company AcquisitionSimpson Thacher & Bartlett is advising a consortium of investors led by PMI Group Inc. (Buying

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  • August 1, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Cadwalader faces its 'cataclysmic event'

    Just last year, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was riding high. Double-digit growth in profits per partner over the last five years had catapulted the firm to economic heights previously s

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  • April 9, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Ousted structured finance lawyers bounce back amid credit crisis

    Paul Roberts was one of the legal profession's first casualties of the credit market slump. Laid off from Clifford Chance in November with the rest of a six-lawyer structured finance group, h

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  • November 1, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

    DEALS AND SUITS

    Harrah's Caesars Las Vegas gambling companies are doubling down at home � and betting antitrust regulators don't come after them for doing so. In the second big c

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  • January 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Deals & Suits

    Xerox ACS Darwin Deason finally struck a deal to sell Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., the company he founded in 1988. Xerox Corporation announced on

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  • September 16, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    The End of the IPO Doldrums?

    The sagging U.S. stock market and traditional summer slowdown may have a target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704855104575469583770220798.html?m

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  • November 2, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Skadden, Simpson Advise $7.3 BillionSale of KeySpan to English Company London-based National Grid PLC, a supplier of natural gas and electricity from its five northeastern U

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  • February 15, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Blackstone Buys and Spins Off Eight New York City Office Buildings Shortly after acquiring Equity Office Properties Trust, the Blackstone Group LP has begun to take it apart. B

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  • January 2, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Legal Innovations: Don't Bet Against the Web

    When a group of lawyers, and one economist, gathered in San Diego earlier this month for a conference called Leading Legal Inn

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  • August 23, 2011 | The Recorder

    Left-Coast Lawyers On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Whit Bissell has joined VLP Law Group as a partner in its corporate and securities practice

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