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The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Taking the Lead in PE Activity, Latham, Simpson and Goodwin Top First Half League Tables

For advisers to companies being bought or sold, Latham led all law firms in total round value for all PE stages.
9 minute read

International Edition

KPMG M&A Partner and Team of Three Depart For Australia's Mills Oakley

Several KPMG partners have already left ahead of the September shutdown.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Paul Weiss, Recruiting Another Cleary Partner, Adds Rising M&A Star

Nickolas Bogdanovich's move comes less than five months after Cleary M&A partner James "Jim" Langston decamped for Paul Weiss.
2 minute read

International Edition

Deutsche Bank Settles with 60% of Postbank Shareholders After 14-Year Legal Battle

Law firms Hengeler Mueller and Bayer Krauss Hüber advised on the settlement.
2 minute read

International Edition

Clifford Chance, Freshfields & Wolf Theiss Lead Multi-Million European Telecom & Pharma Deals

Cellnex is selling its Austrian tower business for €803 million while Mallinckrodt is offloading a division to CVC for $925 million.
3 minute read

International Edition

Australia's IPH Group Takes Over Fourth Canadian IP Law Firm

Bereskin & Parr will merge with Smart & Biggar, which IPH purchased in 2022.
4 minute read

International Edition

Freshfields, Sullivan & Cromwell on $2.4B Japan-US Tobacco Deal

Freshfields has advised Japan Tobacco on several of its strategic investments and deals over the past few years.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Some Law Firms 'Bullish' a Trump Presidency Will Push M&A Activity, but Lawyers Aren't Sitting on Deals Now

"Crystal balls are a bit all over the place" when it comes to the election's impact on transactional work, noted one recruiter.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Distressed M&A: Surprises All Around Following a Creditor's Enforcement of a Pledge to Effect Change of Control

Beyond the precision that should be present in the pledge agreement, actually divesting control of a company may have unintended consequences.
10 minute read

Legaltech News

Thomson Reuters Acquires UK Startup Safe Sign Technologies, Developer of Legal-Specific LLMs

Founded by a current trainee solicitor at A&O Shearman, Safe Sign is the second major generative AI acquisition for Thomson Reuters, following on the company's acquisition of Casetext for $650 million in cash in 2023.
4 minute read

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