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June 02, 2003 | New York Law Journal

Eugene Perez
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News In Brief

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December 01, 2011 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences will pay $11 billion to acquire drug developer Pharmasset, betting on the company's experimental hepatitis C oral treatment. Also, Insurer Alleghany Corporation has won a nearly six-month long bidding war to acquire Transatlantic Holdings, agreeing to pay $3.4 billion for the reinsurance company.
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March 28, 2003 | New York Law Journal

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May 12, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Panel Rejects Bid to Force Author to Turn Over Records

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February 04, 2010 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

Rio de Janeiro-based mining company Vale S.A. will buy the fertilizer assets of Bunge Limited, an agricultural business, for $3.8 billion in cash. Also, in a joint venture valued at up to $12 billion, Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell have agreed to combine their biofuel businesses, creating Brazil's third-largest fuel distribution network and one of the world's largest ethanol producers.
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February 25, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Loss Causation Pleading Standard

Jacqueline Sailer and Brian P. Murray, partners at Murray, Frank & Sailer, write that there is no heightened pleading requirement for loss causation under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995; nonetheless, courts are grappling with the issue of what suffices to plead loss causation under the notice-pleading requirements.
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March 05, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Marketplace

Litigation boutique Kobre & Kim has signed a 15-year renewal and expansion lease at 800 Third Ave., its current location. Also, 80-88 Bruckner Blvd. in the Bronx was recently purchased by Atlantic Development Corp. for $17 million. The site is occupied by a one-story brick warehouse office building used by the seller Borda Products Inc., which will relocate to nearby Hunts Point.
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September 16, 2009 | New York Law Journal

International Banking

Kathleen A. Scott, counsel at Arnold & Porter, discusses recent statements by the Basel Committee of the Bank for International Settlements, the Group of 20 and the United States on proposals to permanently strengthen capital standards for banks and their holding companies. The process will take months, if not years, to accomplish, and there of course is no guarantee that it will forestall an international economic crisis in the future. However, these measures should at least build into the prudential supervisory process more trigger points when regulators must stop and assess a particular bank's condition and, if necessary, require remedial actions to be taken before a crisis occurs.
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June 25, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Tikhonova v. Ford Motor Company

Diplomatic Immunity of Driver Does Not Shield Vehicle Owner/Lessee From VTL �388 Suit
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