Meghan Tribe

October 16, 2016 | The American Lawyer

Energy company acquisitions dominated the billion-dollar transactional tables last week and a big deal announced over the weekend—one specifically structured to avoid Western sanctions—has yielded roles for a half-dozen firms from the U.K. and India.

By Meghan Tribe

42 minute read

October 12, 2016 | The American Lawyer

Sara Mandelbaum, a former staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union and Paul Weiss, has joined Akerman's litigation group in New York. She is the Am Law 200 firm's first hire from the OnRamp Fellowship, a program started in 2014 that seeks to bring women back into the workforce.

By Meghan Tribe

22 minute read

October 07, 2016 | The American Lawyer

Panelists at a law firm leadership forum debated the structural merits of today's global legal giants.

By Meghan Tribe

14 minute read

September 30, 2016 | The American Lawyer

Fenwick & West and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are advising on the $1.4 billion sale of Silicon Valley-based mobile marketing platform AppLovin Corp. to a private equity firm. AppLovin gets its name from its founders' love of the McLovin character in the 2007 film “Superbad.”

By Meghan Tribe

55 minute read

September 29, 2016 | The American Lawyer

Cosi Inc. filed for bankruptcy this week in its hometown of Boston. The fast-casual restaurant chain has hired a 100-year-old firm to represent it in its Chapter 11 case, one in which it owes nearly $147,000 to New York's oldest firm.

By Meghan Tribe

15 minute read

September 28, 2016 | The American Lawyer

When it comes to deal lawyers and cybersecurity, the discussion is often over whether law firms are a weak link in their clients' data defenses. But what about lawyers' obligations to probe for cyber weaknesses within the companies doing the deals?

By Meghan Tribe

8 minute read

September 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A three-partner group has left Jones Day for Sidley Austin in New York. Steven Koppel, Aviva Yakren and Adam Verstandig, all of whom once worked at now-defunct Heller Ehrman, specialize in real estate finance.

By Meghan Tribe

16 minute read

September 27, 2016 | The American Lawyer

State regulators in New York this month proposed new rules that would subject law firms to annual cybersecurity assessments. Is your firm ready?

By Meghan Tribe

8 minute read

September 27, 2016 | The American Lawyer

Sidley Austin, Fried Frank and Davis Polk are advising on a $3.2 billion cash-and-stock deal that will see CBOE Holdings Inc., owner of the largest U.S. options exchange, acquire Bats Global Markets Inc., the nation's second-largest stock exchange operator.

By Meghan Tribe

25 minute read

September 26, 2016 | The American Lawyer

American law firms have established themselves all over the globe, but some markets are more vibrant than others, our data shows.

By Meghan Tribe

3 minute read