Canadian and U.S. securities regulators are investigating possible insider trading in a probe focused on 11 Canadian takeovers during the past two years and a Minneapolis-based law firm that advised…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a law giving crime victims a say in the plea bargain process was violated when prosecutors forged a deal in the 2005 BP…
Lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advising Yahoo used an unusual legal maneuver to give the company’s board more time to consider its response to Microsoft’s takeover bid.
Federal prosecutors in at least five major cities throughout the country are reving up for a more expansive investigation of possible widespread fraudulent practices by mortgage lenders and investment banks.
In Peter Ehrenberg’s 34-year legal career, testifying in December in a Georgetown, Del., courtroom was clearly a low point for the Lowenstein Sandler partner. Like other M&A lawyers, he had…
A computer hacker testified in a corporate-spying lawsuit Wednesday in California that a unit of News Corp. hired him to develop pirating software to penetrate a rival satellite service’s security…
When struggling companies go under in a big way, bankruptcy trustees today are increasingly looking to their accountants and lawyers to ante up at least some of the missing money
Despite headaches created by increased corporate compliance requirements and tension with outside auditors, the vast majority of lawyers at the helm of corporate legal departments are happy with their jobs.…
Although the number of corporate deals has plummeted in the U.S., starting midway through last year, overseas mergers and acquisitions are a booming business.
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