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August 06, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Wachtell Helps Knight Capital Avoid Collapse with Rescue Deal

Knight Capital Group has turned to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for special counsel in reaching an agreement with a group of investors on a $400 million financial lifeline to help prop up the embattled trading shop following a disastrous electronic trading mishap last week.
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July 02, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Latham Guides Quest Software Through Bidding War as Dell Emerges As Winning Buyer

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is advising the computer maker in connection with the $2.4 billion acquisition.
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December 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Eyeing Am Law 200, Greenebaum Doll Ties Knot with Indiana's Bingham McHale

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January 01, 2006 | The American Lawyer

Belgium

s Neelie Kroes finishes out her first year as the European Union's competition commissioner, Brussels's antitrust bar is awaiting new guidelines on issues of monopoly power. In a September 2005 speech before the Fordham Corporate Law Institute in New York City, Kroes announced a policy change that is likely to bring the European Union more in line with the U.S. approach to limiting monopoly abuses. The guidelines based on the new policy are expected in early 2006.
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January 01, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Big Deals

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November 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Will King & Wood Mallesons Work?

The merger between Chinese firm King & Wood and Australia's Mallesons Stephen Jaques is all but sealed. But the questions have only just begun.
6 minute read
April 08, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Bracewell, Weil Advise on GE's $3.3 Billion Lufkin Buy

In a move aimed at bolstering its energy division, General Electric announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Lufkin Industries—a Texas-based provider of artificial lift technology for the oil and gas industry—for $3.3 billion.
4 minute read
February 01, 2013 | The American Lawyer

A Nothing-in-Moderation Guy

In demand ex-prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald chooses Skadden—but insists on a few conditions.
6 minute read
January 18, 2011 | The American Lawyer

Fried Frank, Simpson Thacher Lead on Cargill, Mosaic Split

Cargill's fertilizer unit will spin off and eventually go public in a deal being valued at $24 billion. Fried Frank advised Cargill, while Simpson Thacher was counsel to a special committee of Mosaic's board, and Cargill's charitable trusts were represented by Loeb & Loeb.
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January 08, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Madoff Roundup: $173 Million in Checks, Prison Requests, and Angry Oligarchs

Yes loyal readers, the Bernie Madoff world continues to turn, with each day bringing more bizarre news than the last.
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