• October 14, 2013 | International

    Lawyers Still See Obstacles to Foreign M&A in Japan

    Following last month's $1.67 billion acquisition of Panasonic Corp.'s health care unit by KKR & Co., some are wondering if Japan Inc. is starting to cast off a longtime aversion

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  • November 21, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    DOJ Kicks Back at Kickbacks Under Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

    Don't try to tell Mark Mendelsohn that bribery is just another cost of doing business overseas, because he won't buy it. Mendelsohn is the point man at the U.S. Department of Justice for enforc

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  • July 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    ICE boosts emissions trade reach

    With the help of its in-house attorneys and a team of British lawyers, IntercontinentalExchange, or ICE, an Atlanta-based operator of global derivatives exchanges, has purchased Climate Excha

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  • April 27, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Simpson Thacher Opens Beijing Office

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has opened its Beijing office with a partner recruited from British law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Douglas Markel, a mergers and acquisitions lawyer,

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  • April 24, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    Lone Star Firms Taking a Bigger Bite of the Big Apple

    By Miriam Rozen, Texas Lawyer Stephen D. Susman, a swaggering Texan who wears the requisite cowboy boots and rarely tones down his native Houstonian drawl, recently announced he intend

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  • September 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    The A-List

    Just a year ago we began to answer this question: Which are the best law firms in the land? We introduced The American Lawyer's A-List, a carefully weighted ranking based on our

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  • June 14, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Summer Fun

    When N k City heats up and summer associates hit the firms, law firms want to have the coolest summer program around. With Broadway and baseball games the standard for many years, N

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  • March 2, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    How Not to Offend In-House Counsel

    The scene on the DVD is a client development meeting. Four big-firm lawyers have arrived late. One of them launches into a canned spiel about the firm's capabilities. But as he continues, one

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  • April 17, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    Hart Monitor

    With M&A activity at a lull, what's an antitrust lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice to do? It seems that the staff is using the slowdown to step up its enforcement of the Hart-Scott-

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  • June 3, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Global Lawyer: Arguing the World

    A law student at the National University of Lesotho, Phelane Phomane faced formidable odds to reach this year's global rounds of the

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