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December 06, 1999 | Law.com

Takeover Artist

High tech may be the business story of the 1990s. But when historians look back on the century, they may see something else as the dominant economic theme of the last 50 years: the conversion of the corporation into a commodity that was bought, sold, spun off, taken private, leveraged, then deleveraged and taken public again. Joe Flom was instrumental in the reinvention of American business, helping to engineer many of the biggest proxy fights of the '60s and the hostile tender offers of the '70s and '80s.
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April 16, 2004 | Law.com

Industry Lawyers Argue WTC Was Underinsured

Attorneys for insurance companies said Thursday the evidence in the multibillion-dollar dispute over the World Trade Center's destruction showed clearly that Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein underinsured the property. The insurers maintain they were bound to the form offered by Silverstein's insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings Ltd. Under the "WilProp" form, the attacks are considered one occurrence, an appeals court has found.
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July 06, 2006 | New York Law Journal

KPMG Decision Spurs Thompson Memo Critics

Last week, a federal judge held that prosecutors had crossed a constitutional line by pressuring the embattled accounting firm KPMG into cutting off legal fees for former employees who declined to cooperate with the government. Now, defense attorneys hope to use that decision as leverage to change another memo provision that encourages companies under investigation to waive their attorney-client privilege.
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October 20, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions involving N.J. companies
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June 30, 2000 | Law.com

Eight Minutes

Over the past ten years, the average gross revenue of the most successful law firms in the land increased by 56 percent, to $265.5 million. During the same period, average annual profits per partner rose by 34 percent, to $755,000. But since 1992, the average number of pro bono hours worked by lawyers in the Am Law 100 firms decreased by 35 percent to eight minutes a day.
5 minute read
December 07, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Ability to Certify IPO Class Unlikely After Circuit Rules

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November 12, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Marketplace

Intellectual property firm Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto has signed a 15-year lease for 126,000 square feet at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. The lease will cover four and one-half floors, with expansion options. Also, Mitsui Fudosan America has purchased 527 Madison Ave., a 26-story office building formerly featured in the Macklowe Properties portfolio. The Japanese real estate company's U.S. arm purchased the property for $225 million.
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June 28, 2004 | Law.com

Attorneys Teach the Quiet Game

Plenty of people cheered when Salesforce.com's stock debuted Wednesday. Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich lawyers had another reason to cheer: Their client's SEC-imposed quiet period was finally nearing its end. The San Francisco-based software company had been scheduled to go public on May 13 but was forced to delay its offering after its CEO violated SEC regulations by cooperating with a New York Times profile of the company.
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February 02, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Court Declines to Force Dissident to Vote Proxies

A mutual fund cannot invoke Securities and Exchange Commission rules to force a dissident fund shareholder to vote its proxies, a federal judge in Manhattan has held. The dispute stems from Citigroup's sale of its mutual fund business to Legg Mason in a transaction valued at $3.7 billion. Karpus Management, Inc., the largest shareholder in three of the funds, has said it would not vote the proxies it had obtained, effectively blocking any movement on the transfer.
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June 26, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Attorneys Ask $19 Million in Chrysler Fees

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