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Cleary, Cooley, White & Case Grab Roles in Big Week for Pharma, Health Care Deals
Several Am Law 100 and international firms shook off a first quarter M&A malaise by working on pharmaceutical and health care sector deals worth more than $25.6 billion all told.Google Gets Brussels Boost after DOJ-Books Setback
Google got some good news when the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued a published opinion in its favor in a case brought by French luxury goods maker LVMH and a number of French litigants over its Adwords program. While the full ECJ still has to issue a final ruling in the case (something that's not expected for a few months), in most instances the court follows the recommendations contained in an advocate general's opinion.U.K. Bill Predicted to Cause Shake-Up of Global Legal Services
In an action expected to reverberate across international borders, the U.K. government announced last month that lawyers may soon be able to go into business with other professionals and outside investors. Experts predict the draft bill will shake up the legal services market in England and Wales. A similar move was contemplated for law firms and accounting practices in the U.S., until scandals involving Arthur Andersen and Enron deflated some of the ardor surrounding multidisciplinary practices.Validity of Nonsolicitation Pacts Among Lawyers Shrinks
Geri S. Krauss, founder of Krauss PLLC, reviews a Rochester Supreme Court decision that dramatically expands the breadth of New York's public policy prohibiting restrictive covenants between lawyers, holding that nonsolicitation provisions contained in a mutual nondisclosure agreement between firms engaged in merger discussions are per se unenforceable, that it is not a breach of fiduciary duty for a partner to engage in preresignation solicitation of nonequity partners to leave the firm as a group and go to a competitor, and that no claim of tortious interference with contract or prospective economic advantage could be brought against the acquiring firm, even where it had signed a nonsolicitation clause.Brave New World for Balkan Deal Making
From almost no modern legal infrastructure five years ago, the Balkan states have made steady progress, often with the help of foreign legal expertise. So far, the scale of development is small compared with that of the rest of Europe, even Eastern Europe. But with cheap labor, undervalued corporate assets, and pent-up consumer demand, the Balkans have become a big enough prize to attract the interest of outside corporations and law firms alike.Trending Stories
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