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  • October 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Ice Storm

    On October 6, 2008, Iceland's then–prime minister, Geir Haarde, went on television to tell his countrymen that the nation's financial system was on the verge of collapse. Haarde ex

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  • June 2, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    NY Lawyers Close $3.2 Billion Deal

    Cravath, Sullivan & Cromwell Handle $3.2 Billion Chemical Deal Chemical company Ashland will acquire International Specialty Products (ISP) in a deal valued at $3.2

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  • September 9, 2011 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCO Robert Ebe has joined Cooper, White & Cooper as a partner. Formerly with Nixon Peabody, Eb

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  • September 3, 2008 | New York Law Journal

    Cadwalader Loses Environmental Litigation Chair to Steptoe & Johnson

    Steptoe & Johnson has recruited two environm lawyers, including the practice chair, from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Andrew J. Perel, the chair of Cadwalader's environm

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  • July 11, 2008 | International Edition

    Nomura Cuts Jobs From U.K. Legal Team

    Nomura and Barclays Capital have become the latest financial institutions to cut legal jobs, with the Japanese investment bank making cuts in its U.K. legal team. Two members of the bank'

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  • May 18, 2009 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San Francisco Philip Wang has joined Duane Morris as a partner. Wang, who was previously with Gordon & Rees, focuses his

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  • October 5, 2000 | Law.com

    Movers & Shakers

    NEW HIRESFormer U.S. Attorney Charles G. La Bella, 51, has joined Washington D.C.'s McKenna & Cuneo as a partner in its San Diego office. La Bella, who was senior managing d

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  • November 17, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Freshfields, A&O Lead on Virgin's $1 Billion Bank Purchase from U.K.

    The financial-services arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group said Thursday that it will acquire Northern Rock bank from the U.K. government for $1.18 billion in cash. Northern Rock was

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  • March 3, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    Plains Exploration & Production Acquisition of 3TEC EnergyTimothy Stevens, executive vice president-administration and general counsel of Houston's Plains Exploration & Producti

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  • May 12, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    K&L Gates Among 3 Firms Ensnared in Ponzi Probe

    The collapse of Sunwest Management has spawned a series of civil actions by aggrieved investors. The SEC is charging that the retirement home operator once worth $2 billion is actually a Ponzi sche

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