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Strategic Partners Beware: Your 'Special Relationship' May Prolong Litigation
In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown write: In some cases, strategic partnerships go wrong and invariably litigation ensues. In 'Kortright Capital Partners', litigation ensued and one claim survived a motion to dismiss in part on the rationale that a strategic partnership sufficiently creates a "special relationship" between the partners that requires a greater degree of candor and fair dealing when contemplating the prospective strategic alliance with an unrelated third party.Litigation Funder VGL Capital Bolsters Staff With Two Hires
Barry Mandel, a retired partner at Foley & Lardner and former head of the firm's securities enforcement and litigation practice, and Denis Salmon, a former co-chair of the intellectual property group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, are making the move to a California-based litigation financier.Deal Watch: Kirkland, Cleary, Paul Weiss Score on Chemical, Cable Mergers
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison grabbed key roles on the $14 billion merger between chemical giants Huntsman Corp. and Clariant AG, as well as another $2.36 billion deal that will create the nation's sixth-largest Internet and cable operator.Deal Watch: Kirkland, Cleary, Paul Weiss Score on Chemical, Cable Mergers
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison grabbed key roles on the $14 billion merger between chemical giants Huntsman Corp. and Clariant AG, as well as another $2.36 billion deal that will create the nation's sixth-largest Internet and cable operator.Choice-of-Law Considerations in Transatlantic Transactions
Andrew Hutcheon and Mark Lee write: There are subtle differences between the approaches of New York and English law as to whether the courts will step in to "complete" preliminary or incomplete agreements where material terms are left to be agreed. One such difference is whether a preliminary agreement creates a duty to negotiate any remaining open terms in good faith.View more book results for the query "Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith Limited"
Shutts & Bowen Opens Office in Jacksonville
It has absorbed the Jacksonville firm Gillis Way & Campbell.Deal Watch: Virtu and Paul Weiss Seek HFT Supremacy
High-speed electronic trader Virtu Financial Inc. turned to Paul Weiss to handle its $1.4 billion acquisition of rival KCG Holdings. The transaction has yielded roles for a half-dozen other Am Law 100 firms, including one firm firm trying to help retired New York Yankees star and ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush buy the Miami Marlins.Deal Watch: Virtu and Paul Weiss Seek HFT Supremacy
High-speed electronic trader Virtu Financial Inc. turned to Paul Weiss to handle its $1.4 billion acquisition of rival KCG Holdings. The transaction has yielded roles for a half-dozen other Am Law 100 firms, including one firm firm trying to help retired New York Yankees star and ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush buy the Miami Marlins.Recent Court of Appeals Case Sheds Light on Scope of Champerty Doctrine
Thomas T. Janover and David E. Blabey Jr. write: The New York Court of Appeals recently issued an important new opinion on the reach of New York Judiciary Law §489, which bars certain forms of trading in litigation claims. The decision, in the Justinian Capital case, breathes new life into what is known as champerty, a doctrine many had thought to be largely dormant in New York.Chelsea Grand, LLC v. Interstate Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
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