We’ve reported that some midsize law firms and boutiques are benefiting from the financial downturn, and now two Chicago-based firms have joined forces in a bid to woo…
After a hostile takeover of a direct marketing firm in 2003, corporate counsel William Wachtel reportedly said in a management meeting that the best way to avoid paying severance to…
A mergers and acquisitions partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft describes a hectic four days working on pharmaceutical maker Pfizer’s $68 billion buyout of Wyeth.
Mergers and acquisitions activity plummeted by more than 50 percent in November and December, putting the squeeze on law firms at the same time that their investment banking clients were…
Linklaters was the top dealmeister of 2008, advising on 249 announced European mergers and acquisitions including the year’s biggest: the purchase of beermaker Anheuser-Busch Cos.by InBev NV.
A Paul Hastings tax associate was one of four people charged Thursday with insider trading based on information provided by the husband of a public relations representative who had information…
Louisville, Ky-based Frost Brown and Indianapolis firm Locke Reynolds have announced they will merge, creating a 450-lawyer firm with offices in five states.
Two southern law firms based in Birmingham, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn., announced today they would merge to create a 350-lawyer firm with offices in four “strategic” states.
The partnerships of Powell Goldstein and Bryan Cave have voted to merge the two law firms, giving Bryan Cave a presence in the southeast and the Atlanta-based Powell Goldstein an…
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