Anthony Lin

March 16, 2006 | Law.com

A New York judge ruled Wednesday that state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has the authority to challenge the compensation of former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso on behalf of an investing public that would otherwise lack standing to sue over the claimed lack of oversight at the exchange. Spitzer has charged that Grasso's almost $200 million pay package is in violation of the state's non-profit law, which requires that executive compensation be reasonable.

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December 23, 2005 | Law.com

The federal judge in Chicago overseeing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's age discrimination suit against Sidley Austin Brown & Wood has rejected a motion to reconsider his previous denial of the firm's motion to dismiss. The judge ruled again that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in EEOC v. Waffle House, Inc., gave the agency a right to seek monetary damages separate from any individual's claim. The EEOC is suing for back pay on behalf of 31 former Sidley Austin partners.

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January 12, 2011 | Law.com

The retrial of a murder case that has transfixed Hong Kong opened Tuesday, as American expatriate Nancy Kissel again pleaded not guilty to charges that, in 2003, she bludgeoned to death her husband, Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Kissel, after serving him a sedative-laced milkshake.

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April 05, 2010 | Law.com

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Nishimura & Asahi -- the largest of Tokyo's "Big Four" firms -- took leading roles in Dai-ichi Insurance Co.'s $11 billion initial public offering, the largest in the world in the past two years and the largest in Japan in almost a decade. The stock debuted Thursday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where it shot up 14 percent on its first day of trading. Simpson Thacher advised Dai-ichi on its global offering to international institutional investors.

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November 13, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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October 30, 2009 | Law.com

Efforts to introduce a Chapter 11-style corporate restructuring law in Hong Kong have been revived, the South China Morning Post reports. In Hong Kong and in much of the rest of Asia, failing companies typically end up in the hands of liquidators. By comparison, Chapter 11 proceedings under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code famously permit troubled companies to enter a court-supervised period of reorganization, during which they are sheltered from creditors and can seek ways of boosting their finances.

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October 04, 2007 | Law.com

White & Case has recruited a capital markets partner from the New York office of Linklaters. N. Adele Hogan became a partner in the New York office of London-based Linklaters in 2005. She was previously a senior attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

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October 21, 2008 | New York Law Journal

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February 11, 2002 | New York Law Journal

NEW YORK`S 35-lawyer bankruptcy boutique Berlack, Israels & Liberman has been acquired by Boston`s Brown Rudnick Freed & Gesmer. The combined firm, to be known as Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, will have a total of about 225 lawyers.

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August 20, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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