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May 03, 2007 |

Islamic Scholars Play Role in High Finance

Deal work in the Islamic world is booming -- ballooning this year more than tenfold to an estimated $750 billion. "In the last three years, the industry has gone from nascent to burgeoning," says Oliver Agha, the partner who launched DLA Piper's Islamic finance practice. But the industry is facing growing pains, with an acute shortage of lawyers and Islamic scholars who can advise companies and financial institutions on how to structure their deals so as to comply with Islamic law.
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January 17, 2012 |

Number of intercepted shipments of counterfeit goods increases

Federal agencies bumped up seizures of knockoff shipments 24 percent last year as cell phones topped the list of infringing goods.
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January 18, 2012 |

Duo inked $50 million lease in Hialeah

Ed Lyden and Wayne Schuchts helped Bullet Line, a Miami-based subsidiary of promotional products supplier Polyconcept North America, sign a 475,000-square-foot industrial lease in Hialeah this month.
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Third Avenue Halts Litigation with MBIA over 2009 Restructuring
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
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The litigation over MBIA Inc.'s 2009 restructuring got a tiny bit more manageable on Friday, when Third Avenue and its Milbank lawyers agreed to discontinue fraud and breach of contract claims against the monoline insurer. But MBIA's lawyers at Kasowitz Benson have their hands full defending against similar claims by a consortium of banks, and Third Avenue may just be watching to see how the banks' case plays out.

December 26, 2012 |

D.C. Stalemate Keeping Some Am Law Attorneys Busy Through the Holidays

Am Law 100 firms in New York and elsewhere are doing what they need to this week to support corporate, real estate, tax, and trusts and estates lawyers working overtime in an effort to squeeze in big deals and prepare clients for the potential tax implications of a dive off the so-called fiscal cliff.
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August 06, 2009 |

40 Under 40: William McCann

40 Under 40: William McCann
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July 01, 2013 |

Big Deals

The largest recent European M&A deals and the law firms that worked on them.
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Robbins Geller Files CalPERS Fraud Suit Against Former Lehman Directors and Execs, Underwriters
Publication Date: 2011-02-08
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The ginormous California pension fund already has a pending $430 million claim in Lehman's bankruptcy, but now it's going after the folks who presided over Lehman's demise, as well as the underwriters who facilitated it.

June 08, 2012 |

Much Ado About Fees, as MF Global Trustees Deliver Reports

Against the backdrop of a rare public meeting on legal fees in big corporate bankruptcies, Hughes Hubbard & Reed corporate reorganization and bankruptcy group chair James Giddens and former FBI Director Louis Freeh of Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan submitted their trustee reports advocating for dueling interests in MF Global's Chapter 11 case.
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McDermott Represents Greenberg's Starr International in Suit Against E&Y for Lehman Losses
Publication Date: 2011-06-06
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Already facing a securities class action and a lawsuit by New York's attorney general, Ernst & Young is now hit with claims by the investment firm led by former AIG chairman Hank Greenberg. Starr International seeks damages for losses on $200 million in Lehman securities that it bought in June 2008.

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