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  • Quinn Emanuel, Jones Day, Jackson Lewis: Business of Law

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will open an office in Sydney next month with Michael Mills and Michelle Fox of Herbert Smith Freehills.

  • Kramer Levin Names Litigation Co-Head: Business of Law

    Barry H. Berke was named co-chairman of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP’s 90-lawyer litigation department alongside longtime Chairman Gary P. Naftalis.

  • Sidley, Patton Boggs, Bird, Perkins Coie: Business of Law

    Sidley Austin LLP hired three lawyers who have held various positions at the Federal Trade Commission to bolster the firm’s antitrust practice.

  • Steptoe, Fasken, Perkins Coie, Porzio: Business of Law

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP hired Markham Erickson as a partner in the telecom, Internet and media practice in the Washington office. He was previously at Holch & Erickson LLP, a firm he co-founded in 2006.

  • Simpson Thacher, Perkins Coie, Ogletree: Business of Law

    Dell Inc. said yesterday it received proposals from Blackstone Group LP and Carl Icahn that may be superior to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout plan, putting pressure on the founder to sweeten his terms or switch allegiances. The new bidders increase the number of lawyers who are working on the deal.

  • Swiss Bank Lawyers, Jackson Lewis, Perkins Coie: Business of Law

    Swiss banks are turning over thousands of employee names to U.S. authorities as they seek leniency for their alleged role in helping American clients evade taxes, according to lawyers representing banking staff.

  • Weil, Proskauer, S&C, Jones Day, Bingham: Business of Law

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP represented American Realty Capital Properties Inc., which offered to buy Cole Credit Property Trust III Inc. for at least $5.7 billion, seeking to create one of the largest real-estate investment trusts that leases space to single tenants. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is advising Cole Holdings as owner of the external manager to Cole Credit Property Trust III.

  • Cobbetts, Weil, Wachtell, Jackson Lewis: Business of Law

    Cobbetts LLP, which has almost 500 employees in four offices, becomes the first major U.K. law firm to seek protection from creditors since 2010.

  • White & Case, Haynes & Boone, Weil: Business of Law

    White & Case LLP hired five Linklaters LLP capital markets lawyers in Paris, all of whom join the firm as partners. Philippe Herbelin, Cenzi Gargaro and Séverin Robillard were partners at Linklaters. Gilles Endréo, formerly a partner at Linklaters, though now a consultant according to White & Case, and Thomas Le Vert, an associate, also join White & Case as partners.

  • Lawyers Raking in Cash as Campaign Spending Hits Records

    Every four years, a new mix of politicians assembles to compete for the opportunity to run for president. While the candidates’ names and faces change, the lawyers stay the same.

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