Wilson Sonsini News
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Shearman & Sterling LLP is closing its Dusseldorf and Munich offices, leaving the firm with one German office, in Frankfurt. The firm’s German corporate/mergers and acquisitions, finance/tax and disputes/arbitration work will be consolidated in Frankfurt, the firm said in a statement.
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Matthew Kluger, the former lawyer who last year received the longest prison sentence imposed in an insider-trading case, didn’t deserve the 12-year term, his lawyer told the U.S. Appeals Court in Philadelphia.
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Prosecutors in the Boston Marathon bombings have begun to grapple with the daunting task of assembling evidence from multiple crime scenes and around the world to explain to jurors the story behind the attack, as the latest example of terror on American soil moves to a courtroom.
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Former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP as senior of counsel.
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Eleven lawyers said yesterday they plan to leave Bingham McCutchen LLP for Sidley Austin LLP.
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Apple Inc.’s future iPhones may look very different from present models, if a recently published patent application is any indication.
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Every dawn in the early spring of 2011, Matthew Kluger peered out his window, wondering when federal agents would knock at his door. Kluger, a mergers-and- acquisitions lawyer, says he worried that authorities were closing in on him as the source of illegal tips in a three-man insider-trading ring that had eluded detection for 17 years.
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Advent Software Inc., a developer of software and services for money managers, fell 5.2 percent in New York trading after deciding not to pursue a sale of the company.
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP hired two West Coast corporate attorneys with high-profile mergers and acquisitions experience, Michael S. Ringler and Rick C. Madden.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP represents KKR & Co., the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, which agreed to buy industrial equipment maker Gardner Denver Inc. for about $3.7 billion after raising its offer. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is advising Gardner Denver.
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