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CHS, Hess Tap Kirkland Amid July M&A Surge
Kirkland & Ellis's M&A engine kept humming this week, as the firm advised longtime client Community Health Systems on its $3.9 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of rival for-profit hospital operator Health Management Associates, and grabbed its first-ever assignment for Hess Corp. on the $1.03 billion sale of the oil company's energy marketing business to a unit of British energy giant Centrica. Kirkland also landed lead roles on two other smaller deals.The Bankruptcy Files: Autos, Fat Lasers, and Retailers
Two key lateral hires by DLA Piper in 2011 helped the firm pick up the lead debtors' counsel role to Orchard Supply Hardware Stores, which filed for bankruptcy this week and sought to sell the bulk of its assets to rival Lowe's. Other Am Law 200 firms like Andrews Kurth, Ice Miller, Latham, and Skadden are advising Carbon Motors, Exide Technologies, OnCure Holdings, and Primcogent Solutions in their Chapter 11 cases.IPO Pipeline Pumps Cash Into Coffers for Latham, Other Am Law 200 Firms
Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, Davis Polk, and Fenwick & West are leading a pack of firms reaping the benefits from a recent round of initial public offerings that includes share sales for such companies as Fairway, SeaWorld, Taminco, and Taylor Morrison.Asia Deal Digest: July 18, 2013
* Chinese search giant Baidu turns to Davis Polk for its largest acquisition ever* MoFo and Fenwick & West lead on a $1.8 billion mobile chip deal in China* A New Zealand health care company turns to Chapman Tripp for an $860 million Aussie acquisitionAsia Deal Digest: October 17, 2013
* Japan Airlines turns to K&L Gates for its big Airbus order* Davis Polk and Freshfields on a $748 million Chinese supermarket combination* Jones Day advises three Indonesian businessmen on their purchase of Italian football club Inter MilanDiscovery on Discovery Demands Cost-Shifting
Courts should order more cost-shifting in discovery, write attorneys David J. Kessler and Tarifa B. Laddon. In particular, in the rare cases where courts allow discovery on discovery, it should be presumed that the requester pays for the responding party's costs to produce this information.TRENDING STORIES
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