Brian Baxter

October 28, 2013 | The American Lawyer

AMC Networks has turned to Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance for counsel on its nearly $1.04 billion purchase of Chellomedia, media and telecommunications giant Liberty Global's international content business. Hogan Lovells is advising Liberty Global.

By Brian Baxter

4 minute read

October 28, 2013 | New York Law Journal

The potential merger if successful would create one of the world's 20 largest firms in terms of attorney head count.

By Sara Randazzo and Brian Baxter

2 minute read

October 25, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Industrial conglomerate E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company—commonly known as DuPont—has turned to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom for outside counsel on its plan to split itself in two by spinning off its performance chemicals business into a new publicly traded company.

By Brian Baxter

2 minute read

October 25, 2013 | Law.com

Am Law 100 firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman are in merger talks that, if successful, would create one of the world's 20 largest firms in terms of attorney head count.

By Sara Randazzo and Brian Baxter

7 minute read

October 25, 2013 | Law.com

In a suit filed Thursday in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., CVR Energy accuses Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and corporate partners Andrew Brownstein and Benjamin Roth of malpractice in representing the oil refining company in its unsuccessful effort to fend off a hostile takeover by activist investor Carl Icahn. The suit states that Wachtell received $6 million for its work advising CVR.

By Brian Baxter

6 minute read

October 24, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Clifford Chance, Kirkland & Ellis, Schulte Roth, Simpson Thacher, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges are queuing up to the private equity pipeline to advise on a handful of deals by top buyout shops. The transactions, which come as many private investment firms embark on a major fundraising drive, reveal the close ties between such law firms and their PE clients.

By Brian Baxter

8 minute read

October 02, 2013 | The American Lawyer

When the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers start their season Thursday, they will do so on the heels of the team's $250 million sale to a group led by former New York Mercantile Exchange owner Vincent Viola and onetime Paul Weiss corporate partner Douglas Cifu.

By Brian Baxter

79 minute read

September 03, 2013 | Law.com

At least a dozen big firms are advising on two major M&A deals in the telecommunications sector: Microsoft's $7.2 billion buy of Nokia's devices and services division and the $130 billion acquisition by Verizon Communications of joint venture partner Vodafone Group's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. Simpson Thacher has landed roles on both transactions—the latter of which is the third-largest M&A deal in history—for clients Vodafone and Microsoft, while Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz got the call for its first-ever deal for Verizon.

By Brian Baxter

72 minute read

September 03, 2013 | The American Lawyer

At least a dozen big firms are advising on two major M&A deals in the telecommunications sector: Microsoft's $7.2 billion buy of Nokia's devices and services division and the $130 billion acquisition by Verizon Communications of joint venture partner Vodafone Group's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. Simpson Thacher has landed roles on both transactions—the latter of which is the third-largest M&A deal in history—for clients Vodafone and Microsoft, while Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz got the call for its first-ever deal for Verizon.

By Brian Baxter

64 minute read

August 30, 2013 | Law.com

Despite a nighttime curfew, uncertainty surrounding the national government, and spasms of violence that have prompted lawyers in DLA Piper's Cairo office to reach for gas masks, some Am Law 100 firms operating in Egypt's capital continue to counsel clients.

By Brian Baxter

15 minute read