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September 08, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

December 05, 2006 | Daily Report Online

WHEN THE MANAGEMENT of AHL Services Inc. agreed in August 2003 to be acquired by an Atlanta private equity fund for about $118 million, the marketing company decided it needed a second opinion on whether the deal was fair to shareholders.To get that second opinion, Arlington, Va.-based AHL formed a special committee from its board of directors and hired Kilpatrick Stockton partner David A.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

July 24, 2006 | National Law Journal

The $32 million sale of a treasure trove from Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate leaves scholars still worried about public access to his papers.

By Andy Peters

4 minute read

February 28, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Power Co. and Troutman Sanders go way back, but Georgia Power isn't the only electric utility Troutman advises.Over the past six months, Troutman partner Terry C. Bridges has been the lead counsel to New Mexico's PNM Resources Inc. on negotiating a complicated series of transactions with a Texas utility.PNM has agreed to sell its natural gas distribution business to Continental Energy Systems LLC for $620 million in cash.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

December 12, 2007 | Daily Report Online

The City of Marietta's practice of buying land without first releasing details of the deals illustrates what Marietta Daily Journal publisher and editor in chief Otis A. Brumby Jr. calls a big problem with the state's Open Records Act-too many exemptions.The Marietta City Council has, in recent years, acquired numerous parcels of land without first disclosing the price, seller or location of the property, Brumby said.

By Andy Peters

7 minute read

August 01, 2006 | Daily Report Online

THE LEGAL WAR between Steven B. Belkin and a group of Atlanta and Maryland investors over the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers demonstrates how a dispute over the meaning of three paragraphs in a 13-page contract can keep lawyers and their clients in court for years. At issue is the process for the other owners to buy out Belkin, and especially how to value his interest in the sports franchises.

By Andy Peters

10 minute read

May 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

MEDIA BARON RUPERT MURDOCH'S unsolicited $5 billion bid to acquire the publisher of the Wall Street Journal has directed a spotlight on founding families who have an outsized say in how their companies are managed.Dow Jones Co., which publishes the Wall Street Journal and Barron's, is controlled by members of the Bancroft family through a special class of stock.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read

February 02, 2006 | Daily Report Online

Andy [email protected] Sierra Club has filed an ethics complaint against a lead attorney in the redevelopment of Atlantic Station, claiming he lobbied at the state Capitol last week without a registration.If the State Ethics Commission finds Gerald L. Pouncey Jr. violated the rules, he could be subject to a $2,000 fine and be suspended from lobbying for a year.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

October 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers for a defunct South Georgia road paving company said they will try to get the state Department of Transportation to pay at least some of a $150 million verdict the company won last week against a road quality inspector hired by the DOT.A federal jury in Brunswick on Oct. 1 said that Applied Technical Services of Marietta should pay the massive sum to Douglas Asphalt Co.

By Andy Peters

6 minute read

April 27, 2006 | Daily Report Online

By Andy Peters, Staff ReporterGreenberg Traurig partners James S. Altenbach, Joel A. Katz and Stephanie Ratcliffe advised an Atlanta company's recent venture into the Chinese Internet market. HowStuffWorks Inc., a unit of Atlanta-based Convex Group Inc., and INTAC International Inc. agreed to form a new company to develop commercial web sites targeted to Chinese users.

By Andy Peters

5 minute read