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In Re Bear Stearns Co., Inc., 08 MDL 1963
Publication Date: 2011-01-26
Practice Area: Business Law
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Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Robert W. Sweet
Case number: 08 MDL 1963

Cite as: In Re Bear Stearns Co., Inc., 08 MDL 1963, NYLJ 1202479404634, at *1 (SDNY, Decided January 9, 2011)District Judge Robert W. Sweetp class="decided

March 24, 2005 | Law.com

Latham Partner Doesn't Play Games In Toys "R" Us Deal

Latham & Watkins partner Peter Kerman represented Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in its co-purchase of Toys "R" Us Inc. for $6.6 billion. Analysts are calling the leveraged buyout one of the largest ever in retailing history. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorneys helped marry off the Internet's famous butler as Oakland's Ask Jeeves Inc. announced Monday that it is being acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in a deal worth $1.85 billion.
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October 27, 2005 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

The parent company of the Lincoln Financial Group has entered into a definitive merger agreement with the parent company of the Jefferson Pilot Financial group of companies in a deal valued at approximately $7.5 billion.
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Discover Financial Seeks $6 Billion From Visa and MasterCard in Antitrust Suit
Publication Date: 2008-06-10
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Xerox Makes Concessions to Resolve Claims Challenging ACS Deal
Publication Date: 2009-11-23
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Shareholders force ACS to drop controversial provisions intended to lock up a deal with Xerox.

October 09, 2006 | Law.com

New Spitzer Biography Reveals 'Crusading Good Kid' With a Dark Side

Thanks to Eliot Spitzer's highly publicized attacks on fraud in the financial services industry, he's arguably the most famous New York-based prosecutor since Thomas Dewey. And he's the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic nomination for New York governor. Attorney Michael Stern reviews a new Spitzer biography, "Spoiling for a Fight," by Brooke A. Masters, noting "there's a dark side to Eliot Spitzer the crusading Good Kid, of course, and Masters is scrupulous in painting that portrait as well."
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June 17, 2004 | Law.com

Clifford Chance Faces New Threat of Departures

With its U.S. expansion plans already hurt by East Coast defections, British legal giant Clifford Chance faces a potential Western Front. Some said the firm would have 100 California lawyers by 2002's end -- but not one West Coast lateral partner has been recruited, and last month current partners began leaving. Now, the San Francisco legal community is abuzz about the expected defection of Clifford Chance's West Coast securities litigation group to another firm.
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June 11, 2009 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

Penske Automotive Group Inc., the nation's second-largest auto dealership, has won the bid for General Motor Corporation's Saturn brand as part of GM's Chapter 11 reorganization. Also, nine years after what was touted as a ground-breaking $128 billion merger, Time Warner Inc. has announced it is spinning off troubled AOL.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Rebuffs Effort by Canadian Oil Company to Enjoin BP's Talks With Russian Oligarchs
Publication Date: 2011-05-27
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Claiming that Russian oligarchs seized its interest in an oil company, Norex Petroleum tried to enjoin ongoing buyout talks between the oligarchs and BP over a Russian partnership. BP's lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell called this an improper attempt to embroil a U.S. court in a foreign matter.

Marc Kasowitz of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman
Publication Date: 2011-01-13
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Winning an outright reversal of a lower court decision is never easy. And when you're litigating against a score of the largest banks in the world, backed by a half-dozen of the country's top law firms, that makes the victory all the more sweet.

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