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January 10, 2005 |

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New Partners
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March 12, 2003 |

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March 04, 2010 |

New Deals

AIG has agreed to sell its Asian insurance unit to Prudential PLC for $35.5 billion. Proceeds from the sale will allow AIG to pay back more quickly the $180 billion it received from the federal government to help it stay in business. Also, the Coca-Cola Company is acquiring the North American operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises, its largest bottler, in a transaction worth more than $13 billion.
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July 22, 2009 |

Dreier's Apartment Fetches $8.2 Million at Bankruptcy Auction

The luxury Manhattan apartment of disgraced attorney Marc Dreier was sold at auction Tuesday for $8.2 million, about $2 million less than the $10.43 million he paid in 2007. The sale came just one week after Dreier was sentenced to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that fleeced more than $400 million from clients of Dreier LLP and investors to whom he sold bogus promissory notes. A source said the winning bidder is Ajit Jain, head of the reinsurance business of Berkshire Hathaway.
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January 16, 2013 |

Not So Fast: Equitable Arguments Slow Foreclosures

In their Financing column, Joshua Sohn and Jason Goldstein, members of DLA Piper, write that two new cases concerning disputes between senior lenders and mezzanine lenders suggest that the general principle that New York courts will strictly enforce arms-length commercial real estate agreements may not be quite the hard-and-fast rule that many expect it to be.
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March 16, 2005 |

Former Prosecutor Put on the Defensive

It's one of the most shocking legal stories in the East Bay -- a former prosecutor alleges he and a now-deceased judge conspired to keep Jews off the jury in a capital punishment case. Yet the protagonist has been largely MIA. Not for much longer. John Quatman, whose allegations last year set off a firestorm of anger in the Alameda County district attorney's office, is expected to resurface next week in a San Jose courtroom -- along with portions of his personnel file.
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August 06, 2007 |

New Deals

Linn Energy to acquire oil and gas assets from Dominion Resources. Basell Holdings to acquire Lyondell Chemical Co. Plains Exploration and Production Co. to aquire Pogo Producing Co. Pogo Producing Co. Sells Gulf Of Mexico oil and gas properties to Energy XXI. Complete Energy Holdings to sell power plants to Kgen Power Corp.
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September 10, 2010 |

Appeals Court Dispatches Challenge to Special Master in Prudential Fraud Suit

Former Prudential Life Ins. Co. employees have lost a bid to remove a special master from their suit accusing the company of bribing their lawyers to keep their employment claims out of court.
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August 10, 2000 |

Hog Mild

If you were to meet them during the workweek, you might be forgiven for thinking that Colin Harley and Bob Heckart of New York's Davis Polk & Wardwell were just a couple of Wall Street lawyers. But come the weekend, these two pull on their boots, hop on their motorcycles, and morph into road warriors.
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