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April 10, 2002 |

New Deals

In a stock deal valued at about $1.3 billion, Omaha, Ne b.-based on-line broker Ameritrade Holding Corp., and its Jersey City, N.J.-based rival Datek Online Holdings Corp., announced on Monday that they had agreed to merge. The deal, which is expected to close within 90 days, means that the combined company, which will retain the Ameritrade name, will be the largest on-line brokerage in terms of equity trades per day, according to a joint statement issued by both companies. Ameritrade and Datek officia
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April 10, 2002 |

New Deals

In a stock deal valued at about $1.3 billion, Omaha, Ne b.-based on-line broker Ameritrade Holding Corp., and its Jersey City, N.J.-based rival Datek Online Holdings Corp., announced on Monday that they had agreed to merge. The deal, which is expected to close within 90 days, means that the combined company, which will retain the Ameritrade name, will be the largest on-line brokerage in terms of equity trades per day, according to a joint statement issued by both companies. Ameritrade and Datek officials ex
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Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System v. Merrill Lynch, Inc., 09-3919-Cv
Publication Date: 2010-09-16
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Jacobs, Ch. J., B.D. Parker and Hall, C.JJ.
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For plaintiff: Policemen's annuity & Benefit Fund Of Chicago, Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, State-Boston Retirement System, Mf Global Institutional Investors Group Michael Rubin, Individually And On Behalf Of All Others similarly Situated, Plaintiff Nanette Katz, Frank Matassa, Sunshine Wire And Cable Defined benefit Plan Trust, Individually And On Behalf Of All Others similarly Situated, Michael J. Rudnick, Individually And On behalf Of All Others Similarly Situated, Consolidated-Plaintiffs Mark R. Rosen, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, Philadelphia, Pa(Leonard Barrack, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, Philadelphia, Pa; William J. Ban, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, New York, NY; Carol v. Gilden, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll Pllc, Chicago, Il; and Steven J. Toll, Daniel S. Sommers, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll Pllc, Washington, Dc On the Brief) For Appellants. David B. Anders (Bernard W .Nussbaum, Elaine P. Golin, and Christina T. Shay on the Brief),Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, Ny For Mf Global Appellees. Stuart J. Baskin, Herbert S .Washer, and Adam S. Hakki, Shearman & Sterling Llp, New york, Ny For Underwriter Appellees.
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Case number: 09-3919-Cv

Cite as: Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System v. Merrill Lynch, Inc. 09-3919-Cv, NYLJ 1202472076104, at *1 (2nd Cir., September 14, 2010)Before: Jacobs, Ch.

April 02, 2003 |

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August 17, 2011 |

Regulators lack key tool to unwind big banks

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March 26, 2007 |

Class Certification Overturned in Enron Shareholder Suit

Plaintiffs lawyer Bill Lerach says that Enron shareholders will ask the Supreme Court to review a March 19 opinion from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that put the brakes on the trial in Mark Newby, et al. v. Enron Corp., which was set to begin on April 16 in U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon's Houston court.
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October 03, 2005 |

Miers included in NLJ's 'Most influential lawyers'

In his speech announcing the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush said, "She's been a leader in the American Bar Association and has been recognized by The National Law Journal as one of the most powerful attorneys in America." Here are the 100 most influential lawyers listed in that issue.
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January 04, 2010 |

When Non-Clients Sue Professionals for Negligence

Karen Y. Bitar and Adam D. Cole, shareholders in Greenberg Traurig, review a recent First Department decision where the closely-divided panel determined that an engineering company that provided faulty mechanical specifications to its client, a condominium sponsor, to be incorporated into an offering plan, owed no duty to third parties who relied on the information in purchasing condominiums. The case has been appealed to the Court of Appeals, and may ultimately prove influential in a number of existing lawsuits against accountants and other professionals in which private feeder and hedge fund investors allege they were induced to purchase or hold investments relying on negligent audits and other misrepresentations.
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February 20, 2002 |

New Deals: Lawyers on Major Transactions

In a deal valued at about $650 million, New York-based media conglomerate Viacom Inc., whose assets include television networks CBS, UPN, MTV and Nickelodeon, as well as the Showtime cable network, video rental powerhouse Blockbuster and publisher Simon & Schuster, announced last week that it had reached an agreement to purchase Los Angeles television station KCAL-TV from New York`s Young Broadcasting Inc. The acquisition of KCAL gives Viacom two owned and operated television stations in Los Angeles,
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Banks Lose Rehearing Bid in Lawyer's Airport Bond Crusade
Publication Date: 2013-08-07
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The case of Linda Grant Williams—the former Big Law partner who picked a fight with Wall Street titans—has been bouncing around the courts for five years. Fortunately for Williams, this week a New York appellate court refused to give the litigation another bounce in the banks' favor.

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