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Daily Business Review

How Holland & Knight Managed to Keep its Transactional Lawyers Busy During a Slow 2023

While others jumped on trends that tend to provide exuberant highs during good times but extreme lows during slower periods, the firm stuck to its guns in more traditional spaces, helping boost its corporate practice last year.
4 minute read

International Edition

US Firms Line Up Behind $16B Three-Way Drug Manufacturing Deal

Skadden, Goodwin Procter and Jones Day are behind the $16.5 billion acquisition of an American pharmaceutical company by the holding company of Novo Nordisk, maker of weight-loss drug Wegovy and Type 2 diabetes shot Ozempic.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Chief Steps Up to Lead Forward Air After Disastrous Acquisition, Ouster of CEO

"Forward has been my professional home for the last 18 years, and I am honored to serve in this important role," interim CEO Michael Hance said.
3 minute read

International Edition

'Relationships are Everything': Clifford Chance's Melissa Fogarty Talks Getting on Big Deals and Rising to the Top

The firm's joint head of corporate discusses plucking up courage to approach senior partners, her mentors, and developing juniors.
7 minute read

International Edition

Billion-Euro Distressed Companies in France Boost Firms' M&A and Litigation Work

Many factors, including heavy debt loads and tight financing markets, are making troubled companies prime M&A targets, either for 'a change of control or for major carve-outs,' one lawyer said.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

McDermott Lands Sports and Entertainment Partner From Venable for Transactions Group

Alexei Cowett had been at Venable since 2015 and has advised on more than $60 billion in closed transactions across various media, McDermott said.
3 minute read

International Edition

$14B Japan-US Steel Deal Embroiled in Election-Year Presidential Politics

Lawyers say the deal has become a tool to gain political clout and will unlikely impact Japan-U.S. trade going forward.
4 minute read

International Edition

$14B Japan-US Steel Deal Embroiled in Election-Year Presidential Politics

Lawyers say the deal has become a tool to gain political clout and will unlikely impact Japan-U.S. trade going forward.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

New England's Hinckley Allen Expands Southward, Opening 7th Office in Fort Lauderdale

The Am Law 200 firm is absorbing construction-focused Ferencik Libanoff Brandt Bustamante & Goldstein.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Deal Watch: Hogan Lovells and Wachtell Land Big Sports Deals

Professional and college sports were center stage this past week for lawyers.
7 minute read

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