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Plaintiffs lawyers got J. Crew to agree to changes in the merger process, but whether that will result in an improved bid is an open question.
Oh the conundrum of pre-suit demand letters! Grant & Eisenhofer argued that it would have been futile to demand that Morgan Stanley's board bar outsized bonuses to executives whose rash decisions nearly collapsed the business. A New York state court judge disagreed.
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.Federal Prosecutor Leading Apple Probe to Leave for Fenwick
Christopher Steskal, the federal prosecutor leading a criminal probe into Apple's options grants, will leave the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office next month to head Fenwick & West's white-collar practice. Also the lone prosecutor in the Brocade backdating case, Steskal has been especially busy of late -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs was interviewed by prosecutors and SEC lawyers last week, according to sources. Dozens of options cases are now in limbo, with U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan on his way out as well.Conn.'s Top Firms Beef Up IPO Practices
Steamed, but not shocked was Cummings & Lockwood's Vincent M. Kiernan last December when one of the firm's most promising clients, Stamford-based Priceline.com Inc., decided to go public without putting C&L in charge of the legalities. The job of issuer's counsel to the Internet retailer went, instead, to New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.Merck replaced Evan Chesler with Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly in its attempt to overturn a Third Circuit ruling that said shareholders filed their Vioxx-related securities fraud ruling before the statute of limitations ran out. But according to Tony Mauro, the W&C lawyer had a rough go at the high court. Meanwhile, the Roberts Court continues to take on thorny business issues, granting cert--over the SEC's objections--in the leading f-cubed case.
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.
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