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BellSouth Picks N.Y. Firm to Handle $67 Billion Deal
Atlanta law firms may have slowed the flow of mergers and acquisitions deals to New York over the past decade, but hometown corporate icon BellSouth Corp. chose a Gotham firm as its lead adviser for the phone company's largest-ever deal. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson represents BellSouth on the company's pending $67 billion acquisition by AT&T of San Antonio, Texas. It's the fifth major M&A deal since April 1999 for which New York-based Fried Frank was hired as BellSouth's lead legal adviser.D.C. Firms View China With Caution
Dozens of U.S. firms have swept into the Chinese market in recent years -- 39 of the largest 250 U.S. firms have offices in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. But Washington, D.C., firms have been late to the game, with some justification. Most of the law firm money to be made stems from burgeoning corporate activity -- foreign investment, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions -- which is largely the province of big firms in New York and L.A. Still, China won't be ignored -- there's just too much money at stake.Massachusetts Mutual and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel crossed a major hurdle on Tuesday in a crush of litigation against banks that underwrote residential mortgage backed-securities. A federal judge in Boston largely denied motions to dismiss nine separate suits that Quinn Emanuel filed against Credit Suisse, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, WaMu Inc., and Goldman Sachs.
The litigation between the U.S. and the Swiss bank UBS is beginning to take on the feel of a high-stakes diplomatic summit. A hearing had been set for today in Miami federal court, where the Internal Revenue Service is trying to force UBS to reveal the names of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts suspected of cheating on their taxes. But on Monday, a federal judge gave the parties more time to negotiate.
Vivendi's post-trial motions focus on a seemingly fundamental inconsistency in the jury verdict: Jurors held the company liable for misstatements but exonerated the two executives who allegedly made many of them.
As the landmark f-cubed securities trial draws to a long-awaited end, shareholders' counsel Arthur Abbey responded to Vivendi's defense lawyers with spirit, humor--and some facts Vivendi would rather forget.
After an eight-year odyssey through the California courts, San Francisco antitrust lawyer Joseph Alioto may have finally reached the end of the line in a sprawling price-fixing case against Big Pharma.
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