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  • July 26, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Conviction Upset Ruling Reveals Complications for D.A. in Retrial

    A federal judge's decision to overturn an eight-year-old conviction for the high-profile murder of a Manhattan doctor that occurred 29 years ago has presented Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vanc

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  • June 25, 2008 | The Recorder

    VCs Go for GCs

    Everyone wants to know the secrets of a successful venture capitalist. And Mike Powell, general partner at Sofinnova Ventures, has a surprising one that he's not afraid to share: Get a genera

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  • January 4, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Rakoff continues to make clients, lawyers nervous

    It was a tiny, inconsequential blip in the Bank of America Corp. legal saga. On Oct. 13 the bank's lawyers at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and staff lawyers for the Securities and Exc

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  • January 4, 2010 | Focus Europe

    Big Deals

    The largest recent transactions, all worth at least €500 million, involving targets or acquirors from each of six European jurisdictions or regions: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany,

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  • November 17, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Goodwin Procter, Simpson ThacherCounsel on Hotel Deal La Quinta Corporation and La Quinta Properties, Inc., the Dallas-based hotel company, has been acquired f

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  • August 19, 2008 | National Law Journal

    China Eyes Wall Street, Hires Firms

    As Chinese public companies migrate to the major U.S. stock exchanges from smaller trading venues, they're seeking increasingly sophisticated legal counsel and generating opportunities for la

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  • August 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    Northern Aggression

    Douglas Bryce admits he was surprised last October when Toronto-based gold giant Barrick Gold Corporation launched a hostile bid for his client, Placer Dome Inc. Not that Barrick's interest in

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  • November 20, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Simpson Thacher, Davis Polk Advise on Insurance MergerTravelers Property Casualty Corp. and The St. Paul Cos. Inc. have agreed to merge in a $16.5 billion stock de

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  • March 2, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    The Blackstone Group LP, a New York-based international investment and advisory firm, has acquired MeriStar Hospitality Corp., a hotel real estate investment trust and management

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  • August 10, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Careers: Blame the babies

    How many kids does it take to kill a woman's career? Sorry to make those little darlings culprits, but that's the question that a href="http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/staff/anna-zhu-802.html

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