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July 12, 2001 |

Wachtell Leads Pack in Mergers

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz heads a familiar pack of New York law firms in mergers and acquisitions activity in the first half of the year. The firm jumped to the number one spot for announced U.S. deals based on dollar value, from number 14 during the same period last year, according to Thomson Financial. However, the total value of M&A activity tumbled significantly in the last year.
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August 14, 2001 |

Alltel Issues $9 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for CenturyTel

Rural telephone services company Alltel Corp. issued a $9 billion hostile takeover offer late Tuesday for its largest competitor, CenturyTel Inc. The proposed merger would create a telecom provider focused on rural markets with combined revenues of $10 billion. CenturyTel rejected two previous proposals from Alltel after receiving advice from its financial adviser, J.P. Morgan, and legal adviser, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
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August 14, 2007 |

Bankruptcy Boutique Joins Vinson & Elkins

Denis Cronin, 59, and the rest of his five-attorney bankruptcy boutique, Cronin & Vris, will merge with Vinson & Elkins�s New York office on August 20. Cronin & Vris acted as the Houston-based firm�s outside counsel during the Enron Corp. bankruptcy.
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May 12, 2006 |

Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

Golden West Financial GC Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, but he wouldn't necessarily say who those firms were. As it turned out, Wall Street's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz drew the ace card when it came to counseling the bank through what analysts are calling the year's second-largest deal: the cash and stock acquisition of Golden West by Wachovia. Wachtell handled the $24.2 billion deal with six lawyers in six days.
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October 31, 2001 |

SEC Rewards Corporate Self-Policing and Cooperation Efforts

Companies that have labored to build effective internal compliance programs, take heart. In an Oct. 23 release, the Securities and Exchange Commission reported that it had decided not to take any enforcement action against a parent company for violations at its subsidiary, expressly because of the parent's exemplary efforts in detecting the wrongdoing and cooperating with the agency.
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January 11, 2013 |

Skadden Hits 2012 Trifecta by Topping Third Year-End Ranking of M&A Advisers

Having already come out ahead in rankings of M&ampA advisers issued by Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp Flom completed its sweep when MergerMarket released its 2012 year-end results Friday. A trio of Magic Circle firms—Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters—joined Skadden and Wachtell, Rosen, Lipton &amp Katz in the upper echelon on all three lists based on the aggregate value of their corporate clients' transactions.
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September 17, 2001 |

SEC Relaxes Share Purchase Rules Through Friday to Facilitate Reopening of Markets

Today the United States stock exchanges resumed trading for the first time since the devastating events in lower Manhattan. Recognizing that corporate stock repurchasing could represent an important source of liquidity should market volatility occur, the Securities and Exchange Commission summarily issued an order providing temporary relief from provisions that restrict the scope and manner of share purchases by issuers and affiliates.
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January 30, 2007 |

Time to Review Policies on Board Composition Qualifications

The beginning of the new year, before the proxy season gets underway, is an appropriate time for corporate boards to review policies on board composition and director qualifications. Although board composition issues are usually low-profile, they can become controversial, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz's David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh write. For instance, making headlines recently is the issue of a mandatory retirement age for directors.
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October 03, 2001 |

SEC to Require Foreign Issuers to Make SEC Filings Electronically

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amendments to the Commission's rules governing electronic filings that will require foreign private issuers and foreign governments to file their Securities Act and Exchange Act documents electronically through the Commission's EDGAR System. Use of the EDGAR system will allow investors to access these documents over the Internet immediately after filing.
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