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February 23, 2000 |

Arthur M. Siskind, News Corp. Ltd.

As group general counsel at News Corp. Ltd., Arthur M. Siskind handles the legal affairs of a Rupert Murdoch media empire with 30,000 employees worldwide and more than $13.5 billion in revenues in 1999. Working on both business transactions and litigation, Siskind says "I'm very much part of a team that is running the company."
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April 10, 2002 |

New Deals

In a stock deal valued at about $1.3 billion, Omaha, Ne b.-based on-line broker Ameritrade Holding Corp., and its Jersey City, N.J.-based rival Datek Online Holdings Corp., announced on Monday that they had agreed to merge. The deal, which is expected to close within 90 days, means that the combined company, which will retain the Ameritrade name, will be the largest on-line brokerage in terms of equity trades per day, according to a joint statement issued by both companies. Ameritrade and Datek officia
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April 10, 2002 |

New Deals

In a stock deal valued at about $1.3 billion, Omaha, Ne b.-based on-line broker Ameritrade Holding Corp., and its Jersey City, N.J.-based rival Datek Online Holdings Corp., announced on Monday that they had agreed to merge. The deal, which is expected to close within 90 days, means that the combined company, which will retain the Ameritrade name, will be the largest on-line brokerage in terms of equity trades per day, according to a joint statement issued by both companies. Ameritrade and Datek officials ex
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February 27, 2002 |

New Deals

In a stock deal valued at about $5.9 billion, Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp., the third-largest U.S. defense contractor, made an unsolicited bid last Friday for advanced technology product manufacturer TRW Inc., which is headquartered in Cleveland. Northrop is offering $47 per share worth of its own stock for all 126 million shares of TRW. Northrop sees the acquisition as a way to challenge rival Chicago`s Boeing Co. for the position of second-largest defense contractor. Bethesda, Md.-ba
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June 12, 2007 |

Ruling Makes Bankruptcy Suits Harder

A recent Delaware Supreme Court decision may have undermined cases against directors and officers of companies for actions they take just before they file for bankruptcy, such as increasing the company's debt or signing major contracts with creditors. The court ruled in May that creditors of a Delaware corporation that is insolvent or in the "zone of insolvency" have no right to assert direct claims for breach of fiduciary duty against its directors.
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January 30, 2002 |

New Deals

In a stock and debt deal valued at about $6.1 billion, two of Canada`s largest oil and gas companies, Alberta Energy Corp. and PanCanadian Energy Corp., both based in Calgary, Alberta, announced last Sunday that they would merge. The combined company, to be called EnCana Corp., will be the world`s largest independent oil and gas corporation when measured by reserves and production, according to executives from both companies. By combining their resources, PanCanadian and Alberta Energy will be better
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December 07, 2009 |

Largest Private Law Offices

Clifford Chance once had aspirations to dominate New York. But a decade after it combined with Roger & Wells to become the fifth largest employer of lawyers in New York state, it is a shadow of its former self. The drop in Clifford Chance's headcount - the largest reduction citywide at a major law firm - was just one of the findings of this year's NYLJ 100.
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January 11, 2013 |

The Bankruptcy Files: Sidley Tops $100 Million Mark in Tribune Case

Sidley Austin's work advising the Tribune Company through four years of Chapter 11 proceedings that ended last month have generated more than $100 million in fees and expenses for the firm. In addition to Sidley's fees, The Am Law Daily also catches up on the firms behind more recent filings for the likes of Big M, Edison Mission Energy, LodgeNet Interactive, and THQ.
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May 08, 2002 |

New Deals

In a deal valued at about million, Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company Immunex Corp., announced last week that it had agreed to sell its Leukine cancer treatment business to Berlin`s Schering AG, a global research-based company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of pharmaceutical products. Immunex was required by the Federal Trade Commission to sell the cancer treatment business after it agreed to a friendly takeover by Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based biotechnology Amgen
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