By Tom McParland | July 13, 2017
Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions Inc. engaged in a single-bidder sale process that boxed out other potential buyers and torpedoed the market-leading nuclear waste disposal companies' defense of a planned $367 million merger that was nixed last month on antitrust grounds, a Delaware judge said in a just-unsealed opinion.
By Roy Strom | July 12, 2017
Fei Yan, 31, was arrested on Wednesday on insider trading charges in a case that alleges he profited from knowledge garnered by his wife, a Linklaters associate working on M&A deals.
By Meghan Tribe | July 12, 2017
Daniel Serota, who specializes in private equity and high-stakes M&A work, counseling clients in complex auctions, hostile offers, mergers, stock and asset purchases, joint ventures and bankruptcy transactions, is joining Sidley Austin's New York office as a partner.
By Meghan Tribe | July 10, 2017
As the tech market continues to boom in New York, Cooley has added Greenberg Traurig M&A partner Meredith Beuchaw to its global mergers and acquisitions practice, the firm announced on Monday.
By Meghan Tribe | July 9, 2017
Despite early uncertainty about market volatility, global M&A activity is up 2 percent compared to last year, totaling $1.6 trillion for the first half of 2017, according to league tables released by Bloomberg LP and Thomson Reuters Corp. Skadden topped league tables when measured by number of deals by value during the first half.
By Lizzy McLellan and Brian Baxter | July 6, 2017
Baker Botts and Davis Polk & Wardwell played leading roles in the combination of two video shopping giants, Pennsylvania's QVC and St. Petersburg, Florida-based HSN Inc.
By Meghan Tribe | July 5, 2017
Cross-border combinations continued to propel law firm merger activity through the second quarter of 2017 as U.S. firms continue to look outside the domestic marketplace for growth opportunities, according to reports released Wednesday by legal consultancies Altman Weil Inc. and Fairfax Associates.
By Roy Strom | July 5, 2017
The firm's proposed union with Morris Polich & Purdy will create a combined shop of nearly 450 lawyers in 16 offices stretching coast to coast. Clark Hill, which ranked No. 167 on The Am Law Second Hundred list, brought in $150.5 million in gross revenue last year.
By Rose Walker | July 5, 2017
The growing global legal giant has opened an office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, after absorbing a 10-lawyer local firm. Dentons also released financial results showing an increase in gross revenue for its U.K. arm in 2016-17, although partner profits fell 9 percent.
By Ari Kaplan, Ari Kaplan Advisors | July 5, 2017
Ari Kaplan spoke with Lighthouse eDiscovery's Brian McManus about the aftermath of the company's merger with Discovia and more.
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