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September 23, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Four Firms Dialed In for BlackBerry's Take-Private Deal

Stumbling smartphone maker BlackBerry said Monday it has agreed to sell itself to a consortium led by its largest investor, Canadian insurance company Fairfax Financial Holdings, for $4.7 billion. Skadden and Canadian firm Torys are advising a special committee of BlackBerry's board, while the buyers have turned to Shearman & Sterling and McCarthy Tétrault.
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June 04, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Am Law Firms Make Rain on Pair of Cloud Computing Deals

Wilson Sonsini and Gibson Dunn landed roles on Salesforce.com's $2.5 billion purchase of cloud-based marketing software company ExactTarget, while Cravath and Kirkland took the lead on IBM's reported $2 billion acquisition of cloud computing infrastructure provider SoftLayer Technologies.
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August 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Fortune 500 sees growth in female GCs

A new survey by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association shows that the number of female general counsel among the Fortune 500 has grown to 92, more than double the 44 female GCs when the association started keeping track in 1999.The Fortune 500 list includes two lawyers from Georgia companies: Teri Plummer McClure of Atlanta-based United Parcel Service and Debra E.
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February 07, 2013 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

In the largest private equity buyout since the 2007 financial crisis, computer maker Dell Inc. has announced it will be sold to a group led by the firm's founder, Michael Dell, and private equity firm Silver Lake. The transaction will be worth $24.4 billion once completed.
7 minute read
August 06, 2012 | National Law Journal

MOVERS

Graham Hill joins Heard Robins Cloud & Black as partner in the Houston office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
4 minute read
November 02, 2011 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Washington Mutual: Newfound Clarity

On Sept. 13, Judge Mary F. Walrath of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware issued the latest opinion in In re Washington Mutual Inc. Although the ultimate holding of the opinion - the denial of confirmation pending a court-ordered mediation - may be the takeaway point for many, those who analyze the Sept. 13 opinion further will discover newfound clarity on a number of issues. This article identifies those issues and briefly discusses the significance of the newfound clarity.
6 minute read
April 21, 2009 | The Recorder

New SonicBlue Conflict From O'Melveny

The bankruptcy case that resulted in expensive conflicts problems for Pillsbury Winthrop is now entangling another firm that's looking to get paid, but disclosing some previously unknown clients that are raising eyebrows.
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Judge Appoints Interim Class Counsel in Trillion-Dollar Libor Class Action Litigation
Publication Date: 2011-12-01
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Class action litigation is beginning to take shape over allegations that major banks manipulated Libor, the benchmark rate used to calculate interest on trillions of dollars in securities globally. On Monday the federal district court judge hearing the litigation consolidated 20 class complaints, and appointed interim class counsel.

February 21, 2013 | New York Law Journal

New Deals

H.J. Heinz Company, maker of ketchup and other condiments, has agreed to be sold to billionaire Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private equity firm 3G Capital in a transaction worth $28 billion. Also, the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways would create the world's largest airline.
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September 15, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Stalking the Big Banks With a '33 Act Gun

In his Corporate Securities column, John C. Coffee Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance, writes that on Sept. 2, the conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sued 17 financial institutions for a total of $196 billion, alleging material misstatements and omissions in the registration statements and prospectuses by which the defendants sold, as sponsors and underwriters, residential mortgage-backed securities to the two agencies.
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