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March 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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August 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Alston Bird's California invasion continues. The same week that the firm announced the acquisition of 83-lawyer firm Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava MacCuish of Los Angeles and the 11-lawyer Silicon Valley office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld, Alston was tapped as co-lead counsel on the liquidation of a California company that had been one of the biggest American mortgage lenders.

By Andy Peters

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February 26, 2009 | Daily Report Online

One of the Georgia banks that failed last year-Haven Trust Bancorp Inc.-has selected Bryan Cave-Powell Goldstein to provide legal advice on its liquidation proceedings in bankruptcy court.Bryan Cave partner Wendy L. Hagenau is listed as lead counsel to Haven Trust Bancorp in documents filed on Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

By Andy Peters

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April 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Robert F. Dow of Arnall Golden Gregory knows from personal experience that the corporate debt market has picked up in recent weeks. It hasn't been easy.Dow represented Sysco Corp., the food distributor that is a longtime client of the firm, in a $500 million public offering.As the deal headed to completion, Dow said lead underwriter Goldman, Sachs Co.

By Andy Peters

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July 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

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June 19, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Private equity deals in the middle market keep churning, quietly making profits for investors who are oblivious to the looming economic recession.Offering evidence of this dynamic, Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough partner Rhys T. Wilson last month closed a deal in which his client, GranQuartz Holdings LLC of DeKalb County, was bought by St.

By Andy Peters

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April 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

With the credit market's collapse creating roadblocks to deals, new importance has been attached to a section of merger agreements called the material adverse change clause.MACs, as they are known, were the subject of much discussion at last week's Tulane University Law School Corporate Law Institute in New Orleans.

By Andy Peters

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September 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

W. Fred Orr II couldn't stop smiling last weekend after he obtained a $9.25 million jury verdict on Friday in favor of a man he called "the most courageous client" he's ever had.It's easy to understand why Orr's client, John Henry Howard, is brave-Howard sued an Atlanta men's clinic after its erectile dysfunction therapy caused permanent damage to Howard's penis.

By Andy Peters

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March 29, 2007 | Daily Report Online

ALTHOUGH LAST WEEK'S IPO announcement by giant private equity fund The Blackstone Group has been hailed as a watershed event on Wall Street, some Atlanta deal lawyers don't think it portends a rush by smaller, regional funds to go public. Of course, if Blackstone's IPO turns out to be ultra-successful, some private equity honchos could change their minds, said King Spalding partner Raymond E.

By Andy Peters

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November 21, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] group of Republican legislators plans to push hard next year to pass a bill that would force the local and state governments to compensate landowners whose property values go down as the result of environmental regulations.Legal questions about the bill came up last month when an Oregon state court judge struck down a nearly identical law, saying it violated the federal and Oregon constitutions.

By Andy Peters

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