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September 07, 1999 |

ICO Global's Cash Crunch Leads to Bankruptcy

Satellite-telephone provider ICO Global Communications Ltd. has been forced by a cash crunch to join the parade of multi-billion dollar companies that have sought protection in Delaware this year to reorganize themselves. ICO hoped to create the world's third global satellite-telephone network, but ended up following the footsteps of Iridium LLC, which decided to seek protection from creditors in Delaware two weeks earlier. Iridium was the first to offer satellite-telephone calling.
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May 11, 1999 |

Praising an Appraisal

The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a ruling that minority shareholders of M.G. Bancorporation should have received $85 a share in the cash-out merger with Southwest Bancorp instead of the $41 offered. This means that minority shareholders who participated in the appraisal action and own about 18,200 shares will get a minimum of $1.55 million.
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Cravath Wins Poison Pill Case for Barnes & Noble
Publication Date: 2011-03-04
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Last month, Cravath failed in its efforts to upend Airgas's poison pill. But on Thursday, it succeeded in defending a poison pill put in place by client Barnes & Noble.

New Antitrust Complaint Against Genentech Raises Ghost of 2007 Supreme Court Loss
Publication Date: 2011-02-24
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Human Genome Science and its Simpson Thacher lawyers have filed a juicy complaint against Genentech, alleging that the rival biotech conspired with CellTech to lock up a monopoly on the therapeutic antibody process until 2018. But HGS isn't the first plaintiff to make such claims.

March 30, 1999 |

Settlement OK'd in Suits Over 3-D Geophysical Aquisition

A Delaware Chancery judge has approved 3-D Geophysical Inc.'s settlement of a shareholder suit opposing Western Atlas Inc.'s $114 million acquisition of the oil services company last year. Also approved was $150,000 in fees and expenses for the plaintiffs' lawyers. Western acquired 3-D in May 1998. The suit was settled in exchange for more information about 3-D's operations and a $1.5 million cut of the transaction's proposed $5.5 million breakup fee.
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MLB Wants Dodgers to Cover League's Legal Costs in Team's Bankruptcy
Publication Date: 2012-04-06
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The settlement between Major League Baseball and Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt didn't resolve all their differences: Baseball Commissioner Allan "Bud" Selig now wants the league's $7.6 million in legal bills and costs paid for by the team before it emerges from bankruptcy.

Proskauer Rose Helps Take-Two Interactive out of Two Jams in One Week
Publication Date: 2009-04-06
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Proskauer, led by partner Sarah Gold, has helped Take-Two Interactive Software settle both a shareholder class action related to a spurned buyout offer from Electronic Arts and government investigations into stock options backdating.

Barnes & Noble Poison Pill Trial Kicks Off with Testimony by Mogul Ron Burkle and Commentary by Vice-Chancellor Leo Strine
Publication Date: 2010-07-08
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Thanks to Courtroom View's live video stream of Burkle's closely-watched challenge to Barnes & Noble's poison pill, we got to see the vice-chancellor engage in some straight-talking colloquies with the billionaire investor.

August 17, 1999 |

Iridium in the Red and Under Fire

Satellite-phone company Iridium LLC has joined the parade of billion-dollar companies filing for bankruptcy court protection in Delaware, while dissident noteholders filed an involuntary petition against the company in New York. Iridium filed its Chapter 11 petition after its bondholders and its biggest investor, Motorola Inc., couldn't agree on a plan that would allow the cash-strapped satellite-telephone company to repay its debts.
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Big Day for the Brands: Generic Pharma Companies Lose Patent Challenges to Blockbuster BMS, Lilly Drugs
Publication Date: 2010-11-16
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Billions of dollars of revenue were at stake in challenges to an antipsychotic co-marketed by Bristol-Myers and a Lilly lung cancer treatment. But courts in Delaware and New Jersey upheld the brands' patents.

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