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September 01, 2010 |

Shotgun Wedding Planners

As Spain's troubled savings banks rush into each other's arms, the merger mania is providing plenty of work for the country's largest law firms. But international firms may get their chance, too.
18 minute read
December 20, 2002 |

77 Big Firms Attack SEC Bid to Force Revealing Client Secrets

Tamara [email protected] are up in arms about new rules being proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission that they claim will force them to disclose client confidences. Seventy-seven of the nation's biggest law firms have filed a letter with the SEC "expressing our concern" with the proposed rules.
5 minute read
March 01, 2013 |

Human Rights On Hold

The ABA endorsed the Ruggie principles, but few law firms have followed.
4 minute read
August 26, 2004 |

New Deals

Fried Frank, Sullivan & Cromwell and Piper Rudnick played key roles in a $12.6 billion acquisition of a mall developer, while Davis Polk and Wilson Sonsini helped close a $913 million deal for a manufacturer of semiconductors.
3 minute read
October 01, 2012 |

Deals in Brief/Health Care

July saw a burst of dealmaking in the health care sector.
3 minute read
January 16, 2001 |

Belgium

The Brussels legal market has felt the full force of the European M&A boom. For the first time, in the third quarter of 2000, Europe overtook the U.S. in deals, as measured by dollar value. At the same time, the European Commission has been flexing its muscles like never before.
4 minute read
December 27, 2004 |

'Super Mario' Monti's Tangled Legacy

How will legal scholars view Mario Monti's tenure as the EU's antitrust chief? Some say his dismantling of the notoriously arrogant merger task force changed for the better the way competition cases are handled. Others say he created an overly cautious, almost paranoid commission that's too concerned with protecting itself from court challenges. But whether he likes it or not, Monti will forever be associated with a trio of embarrassing 2002 court decisions.
6 minute read
October 01, 2011 |

Deals & Suits

18 minute read
In re: Lehman Brothers Securities, 09 MD 2017 (LAK)
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Practice Area: Business Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs: Max W. Berger, Steven B. Singer, Boaz A. Weinstein, David R. Stickney, Elizabeth P. Lin, Jon F. Worm, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman, LLP.
For defendant: Attorneys for Defendant Richard S. Fuld, Jr.: Patricia M. Hynes, Todd Fishman, Allen & Overy LLP.
Case number: 09 MD 2017 (LAK)

Cite as: In re: Lehman Brothers Securities, 09 MD 2017 (LAK), NYLJ 1202509001378, at *1 (SDNY, Decided July 27, 2011)District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan

July 31, 2012 |

Arrest of Russian Opposition Leader Raises Tough Questions for Country's Legal System

Russian prosecutors charged anticorruption lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's harshest critics, with embezzlement Tuesday in connection with a 2009 timber deal in which he participated as an unpaid adviser. The criminal charges, which carry a five-to-10 year prison term, are the latest to be lodged against a vocal Kremlin critic and have some U.S. lawyers with Russian expertise skeptical about the country's commitment to the rule of law.
8 minute read

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