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March 01, 2013 |

Deals & Suits

22 minute read
March 30, 2006 |

New Deals

The Aztar Corporation, which operates hotels and casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas, has been acquired in a $2.2 billion merger by Pinnacle Entertainment. In a separate $600 million merger, NBC Universal has agreed to acquire iVillage, a popular online women's network.
4 minute read
February 01, 2013 |

Big Deals

Freeport-McMoRan/Plains Exploration & Production Company/McMoRan Exploration; Equity Residential and AvalonBay/Archstone; Conagra/Ralcorp
9 minute read
September 01, 2004 |

Being Dan Webb

You want to be Dan Webb. You want Jack Welch calling you when his divorce gets ugly. You want John Reed, a man you've never met before, asking you to get to the bottom of how Richard Grasso ended up with nearly $200 million from the New York Stock Exchange. You want former Illinois governor George Ryan reaching out to you when federal prosecutors indict him for fraud and racketeering. You want The New York Times anointing you a "superlawyer"; clients falling over themselves to pay your $700-an-hour
22 minute read
June 21, 2011 |

Big Suits

10 minute read
June 01, 2004 |

Pickett et al. v. Tyson Fresh Meats Swedish Match North America, Inc., v. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company R4 Holdings v. Tickets.

A group of cattle ranchers upset over corporate control of the meat market received a blue-ribbon antitrust jury verdict in February-only to have a judge sitting in Alabama decide that the jury had given the ranchers a bum steer. In April, U.S. district court judge Lyle Strom threw out a $1.28 billion verdict against one of the country's biggest beef packagers, Dakota Dunes, South Dakota-based Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc. The amount covered only actual damages.
7 minute read
September 13, 2004 |

Philip Morris Goes Webb's Way

Dan Webb has handled a lot of high-profile cases, but even he calls the D.C. federal trial he's set to begin on Sept. 21 the "mother of all trials." The Winston & Strawn partner is the lead lawyer for Philip Morris U.S.A. Inc., the nation's biggest cigarette maker. The opponent: The U.S. Department of Justice, which socked the tobacco industry with a $280 billion racketeering suit.
22 minute read
November 22, 2004 |

In a Lonely Place

Arlen Specter may have persuaded his fellow senators to allow him to ascend to the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but that doesn't mean that Specter will now fit in nicely or fall into step with his conservative colleagues. He never has before.
15 minute read
December 13, 2010 |

From big breaks for buyers in 2010 to brakes on foreclosures

The year in review for South Florida real estate was a mixed bag of big industrial deals and a tangled mess of robo-signed foreclosure documents.
18 minute read
September 15, 2004 |

Being Dan Webb

Winston & Strawn partner Dan Webb, dubbed a "superlawyer" by The New York Times, is used to handling companies' high-profile legal matters -- ranging from Wyeth's fen-phen woes to a Microsoft trademark beef -- but even he calls an upcoming federal proceeding "the mother of all trials." Webb is the lead lawyer for Philip Morris USA Inc., the nation's biggest cigarette maker and currently at the center of a $280 billion racketeering suit that the DOJ has filed against the tobacco industry.
22 minute read

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