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September 24, 2001 |

SEC Extends Relief on Share Purchases Through Friday

Extending the relief provided in its Sept. 14 order giving registrants and their affiliates additional flexibility to purchase common stock and other equity securities, the SEC announced that the emergency relief would be effective through this Friday, Sept. 28. The SEC also issued an interpretation clarifying issues that have arisen under Rule 144 under the Securities Act and Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act.
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May 24, 2012 |

Asia Deal Digest: May 24, 2012

* A big roster of big firms lines up for Yahoo's $7.1 billion Alibaba stake sale* Davis Polk and Weil Gotshal get China's Wanda into the U.S. cinema business* Latham helps an Indonesian oil giant tap the capital markets for $2.5 billion's worth
8 minute read
February 15, 2013 |

Dealmaker of the Week: John Bick of Davis Polk &amp Wardwell

Bick, the head of Davis Polk's corporate department, was part of a team from the firm that advised Heinz on its sale to Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital in a deal worth $28 billion, including assumed debt.
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December 22, 2005 |

Sprint Nextel to Pay $6.5B for Rest of Nextel Partners

Sprint Nextel has tied up the biggest loose end remaining from the merger that created the telecom giant earlier this year, settling its litigation with a Nextel affiliate. The company announced it will pay $6.5 billion to acquire the 62 percent of the affiliate it doesn't already own. The price splits the difference on the valuations placed on Nextel Partners by two investment banks. The deal is the largest and latest in a string of deals where Sprint Nextel has bought out service-providing affiliates.
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January 03, 2013 |

Magic Circle Firms, Gunderson Take Roles on Two Notable Legal Industry Deals

Allen &amp Overy and Slaughter and May are advising on Thomson Reuters's purchase of the Practical Law Company, while Gunderson Dettmer, a technology shop already busy this week advising Current TV on its sale to Pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera, is representing Jules Kroll's K2 Intelligence on its acquisition of Thacher Associates.
7 minute read
May 23, 2001 |

Wachovia Rejects SunTrust, But It's Not Over Yet

The board of Wachovia Corp. rejected a $13.6 billion unsolicited bid by SunTrust Banks in favor of a $12.7 billion deal with First Union, but the battle is far from over. SunTrust said it is suing First Union and Wachovia in Georgia state and federal courts, alleging the banks' public disclosures about the deal are false and misleading.
2 minute read
August 31, 2007 |

Finance Lawyers Under Scrutiny As Banking Clients Revisit Deal Terms

Acquisition finance lawyers are braced for intense scrutiny of their work from key clients as banks pore over deal terms with a view to re-negotiating debt terms on a string of major buy-outs, thanks to the impact of the August turmoil in global credit markets. Some deal lawyers may be concerned by Home Depot's recent decision to re-negotiate the terms of the sale of its wholesale supply unit -- lowering the $10.3 billion price by $1.8 billion -- after the financing banks threatened to walk away.
3 minute read
February 12, 2001 |

The Architect

During his tenure as chief judge of the Delaware Chancery, William T. Allen became a force that rewove the fabric of corporate law. His decisions changed the role of corporate directors, expanding them from passive advisers to active guardians, and today, as a faculty member at New York University, Allen takes satisfaction in the dramatic change in ideology about how corporate boards should be structured and function.
12 minute read
October 09, 2001 |

Defenseless

Kicking Silicon Valley lawyers when they're down seems cruel. But fair or not, there's new cause for snickering from the East Coast. A study by a Harvard Law School professor claims that scores of public companies represented by top Silicon Valley firms received shoddy legal advice in their adolescence -- and could end up paying the price in this weak economy.
5 minute read
March 24, 2003 |

Not a Good Thing

As does the CEO, so does the GC? That's the claim in a recently amended suit against Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and eight MSO executives, including General Counsel Gregory Blatt. The plaintiffs, all investors in MSO, claim the GC dumped company stock last spring because he privately knew that CEO Stewart was under investigation for her sale of shares in ImClone Systems.
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