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  • May 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Making a Play for Private Equity

    Leveraged buyouts are back -- and they're bigger than at any time since the 1980s.Consider the recent string of private equity purchases: $6.6 billion for Toys 'R' Us, $5.1 billion for

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  • January 8, 2009 | The Recorder

    2009 M&A DOA?

    Last year was an unusual combination of deal doldrums and bare-knuckled lawyering for Silicon Valley deal makers. The new year could be even worse, unless swooning share prices can bring buyers bac

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  • May 6, 2005 | Alm

    Ousted Brobeck Leader Finally Breaks Silence

    Tower Snow Jr., the former chairman of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, is finally telling his story of the firm's collapse. In a court document filed with the San Francisco bankruptcy

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  • April 26, 2010 | The Recorder

    Aglow with IPOs

    SAN FRANCISCO — Getting the call to do an IPO is "like finally getting a date with the cute girl in class," as one veteran corporate lawyer puts it. This year, Silicon V

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  • November 10, 2003 | The Recorder

    Sidebar

    SHE'S GOT GAME � EVEN IF HER SKYHOOK STILL NEEDS WORKMicki Singer matched Magic Johnson shot for shot -- that is until the ex-Laker slammed a wicked skyhook and sent her back to

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  • October 26, 2012 | The Recorder

    Market for Tech Transactions Lawyers Is Heating Up

    SAN FRANCISCO — Technology transaction practices have hit the big time. And lawyers like Shearman & Sterling's Richard Hsu have the rise of multimillion-dollar patent deals an

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  • October 17, 2005 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    BALLARD SPAHR ANDREWS INGERSOLL Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll brought in a four-attorney trademark group to its D.C. office from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovs

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  • September 6, 2001 | The Recorder

    Back in Style

    Two years ago, when many top San Francisco Bay Area firms were raking it in from the tech sector, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe looked like an old fogy.But now its old-economy

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  • February 5, 2007 | The Recorder

    More Firms Skip N.Y. Rates in State

    California associates still dreaming of New York-sized salaries are in for a rude awakening.West Coast standard bearers Latham & Watkins and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher announced F

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  • September 14, 2009 | The Recorder

    Closed compensation: the secret to Jones Day's success

    Joe Sims' business card doesn't have a title on it or a practice area. In fact, it doesn't even indicate he's a lawyer. The Washington, D.C.-based antitrust attorney who is in charge o

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