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July 21, 2008 |

The Power of Straight Talking

Few corporate counsel have been in the job as long as Richard Wiseman, the straight-talking Royal Dutch Shell lawyer whose spent 33 years in-house with the energy giant. While Wiseman agrees that the billable hour is not an ideal formula, he argues that the development of viable alternatives needs to move beyond the talking shop if they are to become a practical alternative. He adds: "Alternative billing measurements are like teenage sex -- everyone talks about it, but no one knows what's really going on."
6 minute read
January 04, 2010 |

The Declaration of Independents

For large U.S. and U.K. firms, the economic downturn has prompted massive job cuts and talk of a paradigm shift. Meanwhile, Europe's independent law firms are doing just fine.
11 minute read
December 01, 2007 |

Shell Games

12 minute read
September 27, 2007 |

Linklaters: Touched by an angel

With revenue of more than $2 billion and profits per equity partner approaching $2.4 million, Linklaters has surpassed reigning giant Skadden in size and wealth. As managing partner Tony Angel's nine-year tenure draws to a close, Linklaters is both big and rich.
15 minute read
February 01, 2011 |

Alien Territory

The Second Circuit recently deprived human rights litigators of a key weapon. But even with the Alien Tort Statute sidelined, a range of interesting options remain.
10 minute read
January 19, 2011 |

Leading M&A Transactions — Target or Acquirer Based in N.J. — 2010

Chart: Leading M&A Transactions — Target or Acquirer Based in N.J. — 2010
13 minute read
September 27, 2013 |

Dealmaker of the Week: Weil's Keith Flaum

Flaum led the Weil team advising Applied Materials on its acquisition of Japanese supplier of chipmaking equipment Tokyo Electron.
6 minute read
February 12, 2010 |

Cleary Advising Iceland in Ongoing Icesave Dispute

On Tuesday, the government of Iceland announced it had hired Cleary Gottlieb to advise on a new round of negotiations with the U.K. and the Netherlands over losses suffered by Iceland's banks. The demise of the country's banking sector in late 2008 jeopardized the savings of foreign depositors and led the British government to freeze the U.K. assets of Iceland's second-largest bank, which had roughly 300,000 depositors in the U.K. and another 100,000 in the Netherlands.
4 minute read
February 28, 2013 |

Linklaters Advises Japan's Orix on $2 Billion Rabobank Deal

Linklaters is advising Japanese financial services company Orix Corp. on its $2.16 billion acquisition of a majority stake in the asset management unit of Dutch bank Rabobank. The Linklaters team is led by Tokyo partner Hiroya Yamazaki, Amsterdam partner Pieter Riemer and London partner David Holdsworth.
1 minute read
June 01, 2009 |

Many Are Called, but Few Are Chosen

Dell, ING, CMA, and LV= are all reviewing outside legal providers.
5 minute read

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