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June 09, 2005 |

French Firm to Beef Up Presence in U.S. Markets

Paris-based Gide Loyrette has hired its first two American lawyers to staff its New York office, starting the push into North America's financial markets.
4 minute read
January 07, 2005 |

Law Firms Raise $800,000 So Far to Aid South Asians

New York lawyers are making sizable contributions to the worldwide tsunami disaster relief effort.
3 minute read
June 04, 2007 |

Texas Two-Step: Giuliani and Houston's Bracewell Learn the Politics of Dancing

When Houston's Bracewell & Patterson hired Rudolph Giuliani as partner two years ago, they got a real catch who would bring instant name recognition to the firm's fledgling New York office. In return, Giuliani got a pile of cash, an easy job and partners with ties to Texas Republicans. But politics can test the best of unions. In recent months the political spotlight has become increasingly uncomfortable for the former New York City mayor, the firm -- now known as Bracewell & Giuliani -- and its clients.
26 minute read
April 28, 2004 |

Larry Ellison's War Means Pricey Work for Elite Law Firms

Fending off Larry Ellison is not easy. Or cheap. PeopleSoft Inc. has disclosed that the cost of defending itself against Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for the first three months of the year was $12.8 million -- $55 million to date. A good part of the expenditure is flowing to elite law firms -- which doesn't surprise legal consultant Peter Zeughauser, who says that in a bet-the-company case like this, you want the best legal team money can buy.
3 minute read
October 01, 2009 |

National Rankings: Season of Uncertainty

23 minute read
March 03, 2006 |

Atlanta Firms Slow Flow of M&A Deals to New York

It used to be that an Atlanta company preparing for a big deal would shun its local counsel for a Manhattan law firm. Now, mergers and acquisitions practices at Atlanta firms routinely handle multibillion-dollar transactions. Case in point: Smith, Gambrell & Russell partner Robert Paller, who represented AirTran Airways when the discount airline raised $4.5 billion to buy 114 planes from Boeing. The rise of Atlanta firms comes as the national value of M&A deals rose to $1.1 trillion last year.
5 minute read
July 15, 2010 |

Cleary Killing it in Nortel Bankruptcy

Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy in January 2009. Since then the Toronto-based company has helped its Chapter 11 counsel at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and several other firms earn a fortune in bankruptcy fees.
3 minute read
September 27, 2007 |

The Global 100

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May 03, 2010 |

The Starting Line

Hogan Lovells is, as of Saturday, a reality. Now, the firm's leaders have to manage their leviathan and clean up the mass of details still facing them.
9 minute read
March 06, 2002 |

New Deals

In a deal valued at about $835 million, London-based Diageo plc, which bills itself as the world`s leading premium drinks business, announced last week that it had agreed to sell its Malibu rum brand to rival Allied Domecq plc, which is based in Bristol, U.K. The sale of the Malibu brand is the last hurdle towards Diageo`s joint acquisition with Pernod Ricard SA of the Seagram Co. Diageo had been given until the end of June by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to sell Malibu to an approved buyer becaus
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