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Gutted Shareholder Case Helped Pave the Way for $956 Million Vivendi Verdict
Publication Date: 2012-06-26
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Two-and-a-half years ago a jury returned an estimated $9.3 billion verdict for shareholders of Vivendi Universal SA. That verdict was slashed in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Morrison v. NAB. But it may have made all the difference in a suit accusing Vivendi of misleading Liberty Global Corp during negotiations over a 2001 deal.

January 21, 2000 |

Beyond the Valley: Who's Winning the Tech-Law Biz?

There are many ways to spot which hi-tech regions are the hottest challengers to the dominance of Silicon Valley. You can rank them by the amount of venture capital, or by the growth of tech jobs -- or you can track where the technology lawyers are flocking. Northern Virginia is the clear leader by the latter. A close second is New York's Silicon Alley, which has become a magnet for firms with established technology practices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Texas.
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March 07, 2003 |

Two Conferences: Same Time, Different Coasts

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November 15, 1999 |

John S. Russell, Quintiles Transnational Corp.

John S. Russell is senior vice president and general counsel of Research Triangle Park, N.C.- based Quintiles Transnational Corp., the world's largest pharmaceutical outsourcing services company.
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November 05, 2004 |

The Firm Reports: From A to F

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May 01, 2010 |

The Am Law 100 2010 Someone to Watch Over Them

After the house built by M&A began to wobble, Fried Frank's chair, Valerie Jacob (photo at left), brought a steady hand to a firm in turmoil.
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March 20, 2002 |

New Deals: Lawyers on Major Transactions

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a Des Moines, Iowa-based subsidiary of Omaha, Neb.-based conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced recently that it had agreed to purchase an interstate natural gas pipeline from Tulsa, Okla.-based energy company The Williams Companies Inc. for about $960 million in cash and debt assumption. The Kern River pipeline transmits natural gas from reserves in the Rocky Mountains and Western Canada to markets in Utah, Nevada and California. Constructed in 1992, Kern
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July 31, 2003 |

Lawyers on Major Transactions

The latest M&A deals include Lehman Brothers purchase of investment advisor Neuberger Berman for $2.6 billion in cash and stock and Roche Holding's $1.4 billion acquisition of IGEN International, which ends litigation between the two going back to 1997. Read about the deals and the lawyers involved.
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March 01, 2010 |

Levi's Favorite Pair

The jeans king is using only two law firms for all of its global legal work.
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A Genial Peter Huntsman Fends off Irv Terrell on Cross-Examination in Huntsman's $4.65 Billion Case Against Banks
Publication Date: 2009-06-18
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The Baker Botts lawyer tried every which way to rattle Huntsman, who testified that he was counting on Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank to bridge his mistrust of his merger partner. But to us it seemed as though Huntsman played well with the hometown jury.

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