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Latham and Skadden use the force on Disney's $4bn Lucasfilm purchase

Latham & Watkins and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken starring roles on The Walt Disney Company's $4.05bn (£2.5bn) acquisition of Lucasfilm, one of the most high-profile M&A deals of the year. Lucasfilm, which is 100% owned by chairman and founder George Lucas, is the production company behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises. The stock and cash deal will see Disney pay approximately half in cash and issue around 40 million shares.
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Simon Cowell's production company gets talent with new head of legal

Syco Entertainment, the joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music, has recruited a senior lawyer from All3Media to take up a new role as head of legal and business affairs at the company. Matthew Angel, who is controller of legal and business affairs at TV production and distribution company All3Media, will start at Syco next Monday (22 October).
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Simon Cowell's production company gets talent with new head of legal

Syco Entertainment, the joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music, has recruited a senior lawyer from All3Media to take up a new role as head of legal and business affairs at the company. Matthew Angel, who is controller of legal and business affairs at TV production and distribution company All3Media, will start at Syco next Monday (22 October).
2 minute read

International Edition

News Corp lawyers up as FCPA investigation feared

It may have taken News International and the Metropolitan Police far too long to take allegations of widespread phone-hacking by now-defunct Sunday tabloid the News of the World (NoW) seriously, but they are certainly making up for lost time now. With the ongoing saga seeing senior figures stand down on a daily basis, the story is moving so fast that articles are out of date almost as soon as they are published. But what doesn't look likely to change quickly are the huge potential legal ramifications facing Rupert Murdoch's empire, both here in the UK and in the US, with the company facing the real possibility of substantial civil litigation claims from victims and shareholders, as well as criminal proceedings.
17 minute read

International Edition

News Corp lawyers up as FCPA investigation feared

It may have taken News International and the Metropolitan Police far too long to take allegations of widespread phone-hacking by now-defunct Sunday tabloid the News of the World (NoW) seriously, but they are certainly making up for lost time now. With the ongoing saga seeing senior figures stand down on a daily basis, the story is moving so fast that articles are out of date almost as soon as they are published. But what doesn't look likely to change quickly are the huge potential legal ramifications facing Rupert Murdoch's empire, both here in the UK and in the US, with the company facing the real possibility of substantial civil litigation claims from victims and shareholders, as well as criminal proceedings.
4 minute read

International Edition

Libel reform - too timid, too dangerous, too bad

Too much expectation can sometimes be a bad thing. Take libel reform. Given that campaigners have for years sought substantive changes to defamation laws, the emergence last week of a draft bill delivering reform should have been a good thing. Instead, the reforms have managed the neat track of leaving many practising lawyers grumbling that it merely codifies current case law (a debatable point) while supporters of the status quo have howled with indignation.
7 minute read

International Edition

Libel reform - too timid, too dangerous, too bad

Too much expectation can sometimes be a bad thing. Take libel reform. Given that campaigners have for years sought substantive changes to defamation laws, the emergence last week of a draft bill delivering reform should have been a good thing. Instead, the reforms have managed the neat track of leaving many practising lawyers grumbling that it merely codifies current case law (a debatable point) while supporters of the status quo have howled with indignation.
4 minute read

International Edition

BT adds Camerons to panel after review of global advisers

BT has unveiled its global legal panel, handing CMS Cameron McKenna a first-time appointment alongside regular advisers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Bird & Bird. The three firms will primarily advise the telecommunications giant on corporate, commercial and antitrust/regulation work.
7 minute read

International Edition

BT adds Camerons to panel after review of global advisers

BT has unveiled its global legal panel, handing CMS Cameron McKenna a first-time appointment alongside regular advisers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Bird & Bird. The three firms will primarily advise the telecommunications giant on corporate, commercial and antitrust/regulation work.
2 minute read

International Edition

The right strategy

When one newly-appointed finance director took up his new role, he reportedly said: “If a manufacturing business ran itself like we do, they would go bust in one day”. The statement reflects a call to arms from finance directors, human resources and clients alike for law firm IT departments to help them out as the recession hits.
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