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October 24, 2001 |

Challenges to Corporate Control: Is Your Company Prepared?

Although a challenge to corporate control may not be a viable threat in the minds of corporate CEOs and general counsel, it remains an ever present danger to a public company whose shares are undervalued by the marketplace. Public companies should review their takeover defenses to ensure that incumbent management and directors can make their case to stockholders, enabling them to make rational determinations about the corporation's future.
15 minute read
July 29, 2013 |

Seven Firms Lead on $8.6 Billion Deal for Drugmaker Elan

Cadwalader, Fried Frank, Gibson Dunn, Morgan Lewis, Sullivan & Cromwell, and leading Irish firms A&L Goodbody and Dillon Eustace are advising on the $6.7 billion cash-and-stock sale of Dublin-based biotechnology company Elan to U.S. generic pharmaceutical firm Perrigo, which will also assume $1.9 billion of the Irish drugmaker's debt. The transaction marks the end of a months-long engagement by corporate and litigation lawyers at Cadwalader on Elan's behalf.
6 minute read
September 12, 2006 |

Hewlett-Packard chairman Dunn to step down in January

SAN JOSE, Calif. AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that Patricia Dunn will step down as chairwoman of the computer and printer maker in January amid a widening scandal involving a possibly illegal probe into media leaks. She will be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd.Hurd will retain his existing positions as chief executive and president and Dunn will remain as a director.
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April 18, 2012 |

Tallying Up the TARP-Related Legal Fees Racked Up by Am Law Firms

While a recent report by Troubled Asset Relief Program inspector general Christy Romero didn't single out any specific firms for their work on the massive bailout program, it did serve as a reminder that plenty of Am Law 100 and Second Hundred shops have reaped their share of fees for TARP assignments.
6 minute read
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April 08, 2013 |

Sustainability as a Strategic Concern for Boards and C-suites

The corporate conversation about sustainability issues isn't new, but senior leadership is thinking more strategically about sustainability and ears in the C-suite are starting to perk up, according to a new report from The Conference Board.
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Susan Beck's Summary Judgment: Why the Bank of America Settlement Is a Bust
Publication Date: 2010-02-24
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For all the sound and fury the case generated, the $150 million settlement Judge Rakoff reluctantly approved this week doesn't clarify corporate disclosure requirements at all. The bank still says there was nothing wrong with its disclosures, the SEC still provides no guidance to M&A advisers--and American shareholders are still the big losers.

January 03, 2013 |

Mortgage Lending Enforcement Invokes Old Tool With New Theories

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson's William F. Johnson writes that although the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, passed at the height of the savings and loan crisis, had been largely idle in the prosecutor's playbook for two decades, new subpoenas reflect a growing trend of increased reliance on the older statute. An examination of these cases raises questions about the government's emerging new theories, which appear to have turned FIRREA on 
its head.
14 minute read
January 02, 2013 |

Key Lateral Hires Heading Kirkland Teams on Duff & Phelps, Zipcar Deals

M&A partners David Fox and Daniel Wolf, who joined Kirkland & Ellis from Skadden in 2009, are taking the lead on two big turn-of-the-year transactions, representing M&A adviser Duff & Phelps on its $665 million sale to a private equity consortium and rental car giant Avis Budget Group in connection with its $500 million purchase of car-sharing service Zipcar.
6 minute read
April 20, 2012 |

Tallying Up the TARP-Related Legal Fees

The U.S. Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program may have expired, but some of the initiatives that grew out of that massive federal effort to bail out ailing banks and cope with other financial crisis fallout live on?and not always in a positive way.
5 minute read

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