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Mergers & Acquisitions - February, 2010

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• Kohl Queries NBC Over Online Olympics Offerings
• Rolls-Royce Launches $234M Bid For Norway's Odim
• EABL, SABMiller Unit End Spat; Serengeti Deal Near
• FTC OKs $8B PepsiCo Bottler Deal, With Conditions
• CNA Demands Docs From Attys In Commerce Suit
• Diamond Foods To Pay $615M For Kettle Foods
• Ambac 1, Patriots 0 In Bond Insurance Dispute
• Venezuela Targets Conoco Over Refinery Stake
• THL Strikes Deal To Buy Hardee's Owner For $928M
• The Financial Case For Law Firm Branding
• Creditors Fail To Stall ProtoStar Satellite Sale Bonuses
• Goldman In Hot Seat Over Greek Swaps
• NBC, Comcast Execs Fight Experts' Doubts About Deal
• DOJ Blesses $1.2B Bemis-Alcan Union With Divestitures
• Coke To Absorb Its North American Bottling Business
• Active Implants Says Equity Firm Holding It Hostage
• Texas Appeals Court Kills Suit Over Failed Conoco Deal
• McCarter Adds Greenberg Corporate Partner In Boston
• $2.6B Brookfield Deal Would Split GGP Into 2 Parts
• Chemtura Sells PVC Additives Business For $16M
• Updating Issuer Repurchase Safe Harbor
• Nortel Agrees To $182M Asset Sale To Genband
• Posco Makes Bid On $2B Stake In Daewoo International
• Mayer Brown Adds 2 To Capital Markets Team In NY
• Fried Frank Snags O'Melveny M&A Partner
• Warner-Lambert Retirees Hit Pfizer Over Health Plan
• Pfizer Seeks Sanctions In Wyeth Deal Antitrust Suit
• Wilmington Tries To Sink Flying J's Extension Bid
• MoFo Lures Ex-O'Melveny Vet To Bolster M&A Group
• Proxy Season Looks Busy As Activists Pick Up Steam
• K&L Gates Adds Perkins Coie Corporate Partner
• Goodwin Procter Lifts New Cooley Godward Tech Hire
• The Importance Of LBSF V. BNY Corp.
• Triton Nabs Swedish Health Care Co. Ambea For $1.2B
• Nortel Securities Plaintiffs Seek To Preserve Docs
• DOE Backs $1.4B In Loans For Calif. Solar Power Plant
• State Won't Seek Senior Status In Dubai World Case
• Securities Class Action Against Fortis Booted
• Amicas Rejects $248M Rival Offer From Merge
• Japan's Dai-Ichi Mutual Aims For $11.7B Global IPO
• Deal Scrutiny Under Obama Less Harsh Than Expected
• Airgas Rejects Hostile Offer; Cravath Suit Stayed
• Wachovia, BNY Win Dibs On Meadowlands Funds
• 2nd Circ. Defuses Maverick Tube Noteholder Suit
• $150M SEC, BofA Deal Over Merrill Merger Gets OK'd
• Ruling Looms On SEC Deal Over Merrill Losses
• Highland Dropped From UBS Suit Over $745M CDO Loss
• Freescale Deal Clears Way For $750M Bond Sale
• Decision Looms On Airgas' Bid To Disqualify Cravath
• Securities Class Action Against MGIC Thrown Out
• Increasing Margin For Renewable Energy Transactions
• BofA Fraud Claims Canned In $300M Parmalat Deal
• Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Cleared By US, EU Officials
• Mayer Brown Taps Cohn To Lead Derivatives Group
• J&J Can't Revive Claims Against Abbott, Boston Sci
• SABMiller, Gold Reef Resorts Plan $2B Casino Merger
• Fairfax Scoops Up Zenith National For $1.4B
• Airgas, Cravath Spar Over Atty Conflict Injunction
• TMST Gets $96M For Sale Of $11B Loan Portfolio
• Ex-BofA GC Let Go To Keep Moynihan: SEC
• Del. Supreme Court Sides With Fortune In PE Row
• Allen & Overy's 4th Middle East Office Opens In Qatar
• K&L Gates Snags Akerman Senterfitt Corporate Partner
• The Evolution Of Credit Bidding
• Walgreen To Snap Up Duane Reade For $1.1B
• Pillsbury Lures Vinson Transactional Energy Lawyer
• $10B Mall Merger Would Propel GGP Out Of Ch. 11
• JPMorgan To Buy RBS Sempra Units For $1.7B
• Orrick Adds Corporate Partner From WilmerHale
• UK To Review OK Of Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger
• DirecTV Merger Burned Liberty Shareholders: Suit
• Anadarko Pens $1.4B Joint Venture With Mitsui Unit
• Norwegian Fertilizer Giant Scoops Up Terra For $4.1B
• EU Clears CSN's Cimpor Takeover Amid Revised Offer
• White House Backs $8.3B For New Nuclear Plants
• On The Brink Of New Horizontal Merger Guidelines
• EU To Approve Microsoft, Yahoo Search Ad Deal
• Tribune Creditors Attack Bid For Examiner
• Analysts Pan Air Products' $7B Bid To Inhale Airgas
• Hedge Funds' Class Action Over MBIA Split Lives On
• Bell Nunnally Beefs Up IP, Corporate Groups
• Lender Fights TLC Vision's Charlesbank Deal
• New Suit Attacks Proposed $41B Exxon, XTO Merger
• Tackling 'Too Big To Fail'
• Magna Seeks Approval Of Md. Racetracks Sale
• SEC Rebuffs JP Morgan Pay-To-Play Dismissal Effort
• BNSF Shareholders Approve $34B Sale To Berkshire
• Schulte Roth Brings Back Business Partner Freedman
• Abbott Divestment Wins EU OK For $6.6B Solvay Deal
• Barnes & Thornburg Amps Up Its Atlanta Office
• FirstEnergy To Acquire Allegheny For $8.5B
• Nortel Expects To Raise $1B In Biz Unit Sales
• Agilent To Sell Networks Unit To JDSU For $165M
• Flying J Promises To Repay Most Debts In Ch. 11 Plan
• Agriculture Cos. Brace For More Antitrust Scrutiny
• Case Study: Solomon V. Oneida
• CME Venture To Buy 90% Of Dow Jones Indexes
• Ex-Hartford Analyst Takes Deal For Insider Trading
• Barclays To Buy Citi's Italian Credit Cards Business
• CSN Looks To Block Lafarge, Cimpor Share Sale
• Wilson Sonsini Adds O'Melveny Finance Partner
• Creditor Blasts ProtoStar Bid For Sale-Related Bonuses
• OFT Gives OK To Ambassador-Live Nation Theater Deal
• 9th Circ. Remands AIG Fraud Fight Over Asset Sale
• Aurelius Contests Sealing Of Tribune Creditors' Suit
• Airgas Rejects Rival Air Products' $7B Takeover Bid
• Sony Acquires Stem Cell Research Co. ICyt
• Avis Appeals $16M Verdict In Rent-A-Car Contract Spat
• GE Partners Up To Buy $200M In Oil, Gas Reserves
• Progress Energy To Snap Up $367M In Suncor Assets
• Micron To Acquire Numonyx In $1.27B Stock Deal
• Ipso Facto Clauses And The Anti-Deprivation Rule
• AMG Nabs Private Equity Manager Pantheon For $775M
• Judge Refuses To Revive Britannia IPO Action
• Noteholders Object To AmTrust Sale To Novak
• Ex-Client Sues Cravath For Repping Rival In $7B Bid
• Ghana May Block $4B ExxonMobil, Kosmos Deal
• New Merger Review And FERC's Market Power Analyses
• K&L Gates Hires Simmons Finance Expert In London
• Japan Airlines Snubs Delta, Sticks With American
• Hogan & Hartson Partner Jumps To Thompson Hine
• Winston & Strawn Boosts Restructuring, M&A Teams
• New Suit Begs Hef To Put Business Above Blondes
• Iowa Telecom Settles Suit Over $1.1B Merger
• Dexia Insurance Sale Gets OK Amid Restructuring Deal
• Judge Approves Champion Enterprises Auction
• Ex-Ernst & Young Atty Gets Year For Insider Trading
• Anglo Platinum Seeks To Raise $1.6B In Rights Offer
• Japan Airlines Rebuffs Offer Of Delta Partnership
• Lehman Examiner Report Done, But Sealed For Now
• BofA $150M Deal Over Merrill Losses Still On Hold
• Allen & Overy Opens 2 Australia Offices
• Ex-White & Case Qatar Chief Joins Exodus To Latham
• EU Approves Netherlands' ABN-Fortis Finance Plan
• Bill Takes Aim At Big Bonuses From TARP Firms
• Broadcom Moves To Dismiss Emulex Antitrust Suit
• Aussie Mining Co. Inks $60B Chinese Coal Supply Deal
• In Pursuit Of Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• Renew Energy Creditor Pushes For Ch. 7 Conversion
• Houghton Wants $20M Suit Over Unit Sale Tossed
• Air Products Seeks To Acquire Airgas In $7B Deal
• The Ongoing Debate Over Rule 2019
• LandAmerica Unit Sues UnitedTech For Contract Breach
• Q&A With Mitchell Silberberg's Les Gold
• Comcast CEO Defends NBC Merger To Skeptical Sens.
• BofA Strikes SEC Deal, Faces NY AG's New Suit
• Kraft Sells $9.5B In Notes To Fund Cadbury Deal
• Explicit Terms Don't Make Agreements Binding: Court
• Inverness To Pay $110M For Kroll Drug Testing Unit
• Eni To End EU Probe By Selling Pipeline Stakes
• Spheris Files Ch. 11 To Sell Off Assets For $75M
• Berkshire To Sell $8B In Debt To Pay Off BNSF Buy
• Baker McKenzie Derivatives Head Jumps To DLA Piper
• Monster To Buy HotJobs From Yahoo For $225M
• Ambac Wants New Orleans' $171M Bond Suit Tossed
• UK Regulators Want To Examine T-Mobile, Orange Deal
• Raymond James Fined $12.1M For Employee Poaching
• Foley Adds Nixon Peabody Atty In Silicon Valley
• SEC Settles Insider Trading Case Against Gilat Exec
• Jones Day Makes 3 More Lateral Hires In Calif.
• Ericsson Buys SinglePoint's Mobile Aggregation Biz
• Q&A With Ropes & Gray's Jay Kim
• Nipro To Snap Up Home Diagnostics For $215M
• EU OKs $5B Deal Joining IMS Health, Investment Funds
• Statoil Weighs Spinoff Of Retail Fuel Division
• Equity Firm Ends Suit Over Failed ChemRisk Deal
• Cooley Lures Corporate Partner From Ropes & Gray
• Braskem To Shell Out $350M For Sunoco Unit
• GE Capital Launches $2.5B Securities Exchange
• Zell Buys 3 NYC Buildings From Macklowe For $475M
• BNY Mellon Snags PNC Investment Unit For $2.3B
• Q&A With Roetzel & Andress' John Steele
• Obama Asks For $30B To Support Small Bank Lending
• Cooper-Standard Plan Calls For $245M Rights Offering
• Manpower To Pay $431M For Comsys IT Staffing Co.
• $7M Fraud Award Can't Be Divvied Up On Fault: Judge
• Shell Joins With Cosan In $12B Brazil Ethanol Project
• Cos. Turn To Plaintiffs Firms To Meet Litigation Needs
• Western Gas Picks Up Anadarko Assets For $254M
• White & Case Loses A Dozen Partners To Latham
• The Use Of Tender Offers In The US
• Cephalon To Buy Swiss Drugmaker Mepha For $590M
• Q&A With Hodgson Russ' Kenneth Friedman