Brian Baxter

March 17, 2014 | The American Lawyer

With the field set for the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament, others can agonize over their brackets. The Am Law Daily's focus is on the lawyers and law firms with ties to the NCAA and the nation's top college sports conferences.

By Brian Baxter

7 minute read

March 13, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Covington & Burling and Delaware's Potter Anderson & Corroon are advising Gleacher & Company on its planned liquidation, which the boutique financial services firm announced Thursday after failing to find a buyer.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

March 12, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The latest noteworthy deal in the expanding cybersecurity sector finds Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advising longtime private equity client The Blackstone Group on its purchase of a majority stake in Denver-based Accuvant from Sverica International, which are being advised, respectively, by lawyers from Holland & Hart and Cooley.

By Brian Baxter

5 minute read

March 10, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Cravath, Swaine & Moore is advising Minerals Technologies on its $1.74 billion acquisition of Amcol International, which is being advised by Kirkland & Ellis. The offer by Minerals Technologies topped a rival bid made last month by French specialty materials maker Imerys and its lawyers from Skadden and Fried Frank.

By Brian Baxter

3 minute read

March 10, 2014 | The American Lawyer

With five Peoria-based partners jumping to local shop Quinn, Johnston, Henderson, Pretorius & Cerulo, Husch Blackwell has decided to close its outpost in the central Illinois city.

By Brian Baxter

5 minute read

March 10, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Bingham McCutchen energy partner Mark Williams, tax partner Daniel Nelson, investment management partner Gerald Kehoe and corporate of counsel Ann Chamberlain are leaving the firm's offices in Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., to join Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. For Bingham, the latest lateral losses come on the heels of the firm's worst financial performance in six years.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

March 06, 2014 | The American Lawyer

A week before three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders were charged with engineering a massive fraud that helped destroy the firm, litigator Geoffrey Coll underscored the human toll of the collapse caused by their alleged actions by filing for Chapter 7 protection.

By Brian Baxter

6 minute read

March 03, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The latest tax filings by the National Football League and its collective bargaining arm show that it paid out nearly $25 million to Akin Gump, Covington & Burling and Paul Weiss, the latter a newcomer to the NFL's stable of top outside legal advisers.

By Brian Baxter

7 minute read

February 28, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Baker & McKenzie, Chadbourne & Parke, Clifford Chance, Dentons, DLA Piper and Squire Sanders have all seen business at their offices in Kiev grind to a halt this month amid clashes between opposition forces and security services loyal to former president Viktor Yanukovych.

By Brian Baxter

15 minute read

February 27, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Patton Boggs, which is engaged in preliminary merger talks with Squire Sanders after announcing the closure of its Newark office this week, could see one of its top partners head for the door. James Tyrrell Jr., a member of the firm's executive committee and head of its toxic tort and product liability practice group, joined Patton Boggs in a high-profile lateral move in 2006. He also took on a controversial case representing indigenous Ecuadoreans suing energy giant Chevron, which has complicated Patton Boggs' efforts to find a merger partner. As it happens, Squire Sanders has its own ties to the South American nation.

By Brian Baxter

13 minute read