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Mergers & Acquisitions - September, 2011

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• Lyondell Trustee Says Blavatnik Scored $1.2B In Buyout
• Taylor Wessing Reps Imperial In $234M Lehnkering Buy
• Davis Polk Advises Toyo In $775M Stolle Acquisition
• Bug Music CEO Tries To Block $300M BMG Merger
• AT&T Fights Sprint, C Spire Bids To Nix $39B T-Mobile Buy
• Oracle Investors Sue Larry Ellison Over Pillar Purchase
• FINRA Merger Immunity Ruling Appealed To High Court
• Simpson Thacher Launches Hong Kong Practice
• Ex-Pfizer Employees Want Class Cert. In ERISA Suit
• Thompson & Knight Nabs Jones Day Securities Atty
• Apple Can't Halt Motorola IP Fight Despite Google Deal
• Davies Ward Reps Minmetals In $1.3B African Mines Deal
• TeliaSonera Wins $932M In Tussle Over Turkcell
• Defendants Trimmed In Tribune Trustees' Clawback Suit
• Sumitomo Grabs Consumer Finance Co. For $2.7B
• Dish Wants FCC Hearing On $39B AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
• Investors Can't Apply Twiqbal To Sprint Answers: Judge
• CBOE Picks Up NSX To Widen Exchange Presence
• Sun Takes Struggling Retailer Alexon Private
• United-Continental Flight Merger OKed Despite Pilot Fears
• Paul Weiss Reps KPS Capital in United Copper Buy
• Jones Day Reps Nationwide In $760M Harleysville Buy
• FTC Clears Level 3's $3B Global Crossing Buy
• Family Dollar Investor Drops Bid In Return For Board Spot
• Till Dissolution Do Us Part
• Saab Parent Nears $44M Spyker Deal With PE Firm
• DOJ Wants More Info On $12.5B Google-Motorola Deal
• EU Greenlights GKN's $440M Buy Of Auto Parts Suppliers
• Debevoise Reps Drugmaker Galderma In Graceway Buy
• Insider Trading Suit Over Sanofi Deal Stays Alive
• Corporate Political Spending Post-Citizens United
• Kodiak Oil Buys ND Oil, Gas Properties For $235M
• Astorg Buys FCI Unit From Bain Capital For $900M
• Full Steam Ahead For SABMiller's $9.8B Foster's Deal
• Google Seeks To Shield Android Info In DOJ's AT&T Suit
• SandRidge Sells Texas Properties For $231M
• Sealing The Deal: NBA Lockout Can't Stop DLA Piper
• Ex-Crunk Employee's Action Over Solvi Sale Tossed
• China's Merger Review Rules — Useful But Limited
• Cravath Reps AmerisourceBergen In $250M CVS Unit Buy
• Hogan Lovells Advises Cigna On £71M FirstAssist Deal
• Blackstone Snaps Up Equity One Malls For $473M
• Milbank Snags 3 M&A Pros For Global Corporate Team
• Allen & Overy Aids Varde In $740M SAC Credit Buyout
• BASF Sells Fertilizer Assets To EuroChem For $947M
• Permira Wins Out With $455M Bid For Renaissance
• DLA Piper Advises Carlyle Group On ITRS Deal
• Howard Stern Can't Cash In On Sirius XM Tie-Up: Atty
• VW Wins EU Antitrust Approval For MAN Takeover
• Wi-Lan Must Fight Injunction In GPC Secrets Row: Judge
• Akin Gump Reps Consol In $193M Marcellus Shale Deal
• Tech Co. Shareholders Sue Sakhr Software Over $14M Deal
• Tower Bancorp Shareholder Tries To Block $336M Sale
• United Pilots Up In Arms Over New Procedures Deadline
• Kirkland Aids Tronox-Exxaro Mining Assets Deal
• Ranieri, WL Ross Team Up To Buy Deutsche Bank Unit
• Alston & Bird Gains SNR Denton Financial Services Trio
• Shell Joint Venture Buys Bow Energy For Sweetened $520M
• Berkshire Hathaway Approves Share Buyback Plan
• Morgan Lewis Reps Reed Elsevier In £343M Accuity Buy
• Anticipating Trends In Canadian M&A
• DDS, MediaBank Join Forces For $100B Ad Platform
• Goldman To Buy Majority Stake In ReNew Wind For $202M
• Icahn Abandons $10.7B Bid For Clorox
• Goffer Brother Seeks Lighter Term For Insider Trading
• Groupon Restates Revenue In Amended SEC Filing
• Goodrich Investors Seek To Block $16.5B United Tech Deal
• Judge Sets Analysis Deadline In DOJ's AT&T Antitrust Suit
• ZaZa Wants Court To Stop Ex-CFO From Wrecking Merger
• Milbank Boosts Securities Group With Weil Gotshal Bigwig
• UBS Sues H Partners Over $25M Deal In Cumulus Buy
• Axa Explores Sale Of Private Equity Unit
• FTC Asks Omnicare For More Info On PharMerica Bid
• Centrica Unit To Buy First Choice Power For $270M
• Plato's $455M Bid For Renaissance Learning Tops Permira
• HgCapital Takes Domain Name Co. Private For £153M
• Jones Day Scores Ex-Skadden Partner For M&A Group
• Kirkland Reps Vista In Thomson Reuters Risk Unit Buy
• O'Melveny Reps Lookout In $40M Fundraising
• Cracker Barrel Hopes Poison Pill Halts Investor
• Pentwater Sues UBS Over Soured $25M Stock Purchase
• Hawaii Jury Says NCAA Didn't Hinder $1M Aloha Deal
• PharmAthene Wins Share Of SIGA Smallpox Drug Profits
• Barbican Makes Competing Offer For Omega
• DST, Silver Lake Join $1.6B Tender Offer For Alibaba
• Clifford Chance Reps Permira In Netafim Deal
• Kerry Picks Up Cargill's Flavor Business For $230M
• Microsemi Reaches Deal To Buy Zarlink For $525M
• Dynegy Bondholders Sue Over $1.7B Restructuring
• JPMorgan Sues American Century Over $848M Resale
• Jones Day Adds Simmons, Addleshaw Partners In London
• Skadden Reps Sage In $320M Health Unit Sale To Vista
• Crowell, Wachtell Rep United Tech In $16.5B Goodrich Buy
• US M&A Activity — What Chinese Investors Need To Know
• AT&T Seeks Trial In DOJ Case Over T-Mobile Deal
• Liberty Media Can Split Off Assets: Del. High Court
• Chile Clears Airlines' Merger With Conditions
• Skadden Adds Macfarlanes Funds Ace In London
• White & Case Nabs Norton M&A Vet For Abu Dhabi Office
• Lehman Drops Appeal In $13B Barclays Suit
• Express Scripts Can't Shake Suit Over $29B Merger
• Galleon's Goffer Gets 10 Years For Insider Trading
• Troutman Sanders Adds K&L Corporate Finance Pro
• Foster's Accepts $10.2B SABMiller Offer
• Matrix Leads $33M Infusion For Online Retailer
• NetLogic Investors Fight $3.7B Broadcom Deal
• France Fines Canal Plus $41M, Pulls OK For TPS Merger
• Gores Group Adds Alpheus To Telecom Portfolio
• Apache To Buy Exxon's North Sea Assets For $1.75B
• Struggling Saab Receives Bankruptcy Reprieve
• Control Person Liability: Tips For Investment Firms
• Verizon Can't Dodge Fraud Claims Over Idearc Spinoff
• Richardson Malpractice Suit Sent Back To Trial Court
• Express Scripts, Medco Say Deal Will Boost Competition
• 3rd Circ. KOs $1M Suit Over George Foreman Trademark
• Investors Sue Ralcorp Over Rejected $5.2B ConAgra Deal
• GOP Urges Obama To Lay Off AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
• Resort Group Brings Singapore On Board For Ch. 11
• InSite Teams With Carlyle In $13.5M Miami Hotel Buy
• SAP Agrees To Buy Business Networker Crossgate
• Last Trivium Insider Trading Defendant Settles SEC Suit
• Orix Unit Boosts Health PE Firm With $150M Infusion
• Remgro Pays Up To $262M For Stake In Grindrod Expansion
• Ex-Gerova Exec Escapes Suit Over Stillwater Deal
• Rutan Reps Fifth Street In $200M Sumitomo Credit Deal
• FTC Investigates Valeant's Dermatology Buys
• Aussies Can't Halt Metcash's $225M Grocery Chain Buy
• Interpreting Section 546(e) Safe Harbor Post-Enron
• Investcorp Picks Up Kitchenware Seller Sur La Table
• Regional Telecom Launches Latest Suit Over AT&T Merger
• Stephen Baldwin Gets Coverage Suit Halted In Venture Row
• 4th Defendant Charged In Citigroup Insider Trading Plot
• SEC Alleges $1.7M Trading Scam In Global-Technip Deal
• GSK OTC Products Spark Bidding War
• First Reserve Buys Stake In Amromco
• Akin Gump Snags Renewable Energy, Tax Pro From GE
• Activum Raises $325M For Real Estate Fund
• Ex-VantagePoint Emerging Markets GC Joins Perkins Coie
• H&R Block CEO Rips DOJ Market Definition In TaxACT Suit
• National Indemnity Renews $3.2B Bid For Transatlantic
• Paul Hastings Reps Credit Agricole In Groupe SVP Deal
• DOJ Conduct Remedies: Lessons From North Of The Border
• Tyco International To Split Into 3 Cos.
• BP Seeks To Snuff Norex Suit Over Russian Power Grab
• Viacom Wants $132M Refund From Harmonix Investors
• Blackstone Pays $950M For UK Hotels As Olympics Near
• Ceglia Told To Cough Up Emails Now In Facebook Row
• 7 States Join DOJ Bid To Block AT&T, T-Mobile Deal
• Transatlantic Calls Off Allied Deal, Replaces CEO
• Former Credit Agricole GC Joins Kramer Levin In Paris
• Dallas Stars File For Ch. 11 With Plan To Sell
• HP Misled Investors About Palm, PC Unit: Suit
• Google Rivals' Ad Deal Would Face Regulatory Review
• House Dems Urge DOJ To Drop AT&T, T-Mobile Tie-Up Suit
• Musicland Investor To Pay $21M For False Filing
• Bingham Scores Securitization Star From O'Melveny
• Anschutz Corp. To Buy Oklahoma Publishing Co.
• Morgan Lewis Reps Pearson In $400M Virtual School Deal
• Tyco Picks Up Security Systems Co. For $100M
• Feds Say 'Brazen' Ex-Galleon Trader Deserves No Mercy
• Top 5 Traps In Energy M&A Transactions
• SNR Denton Adds Private Equity Pro In Dallas
• The Presidio Parkway's Public-Private Partnership
• Innkeepers Buys Time In Suit Over $1B Cerberus Bid
• Barclays Doesn't Owe Ex-Lehman Workers $500M: Judge
• King & Spalding Settles Thrashers Malpractice Suit
• Technip's $1B Global Industries Buy Spurs Investor Suit
• SEC Taps Fenwick Ace For Small Biz Investment Panel
• Vorys Snags Ex-Bricker & Eckler Corporate Finance Pro
• Jones Day Nabs Telecom Deals Team From Norton Rose
• Validus Targets Transatlantic Board In $3.2B Hostile Bid
• Pierce Atwood Adds Corporate Pro In Boston
• Avis Drops Dollar Thrifty Bid, Cites Market Conditions
• House Panel To Review Express Scripts' $29B Medco Buy
• FTC Approves Fiserv's $465M CashEdge Buy
• Brookfield To Create Global Renewable Power Giant
• $61M Air Force Contract Bidder's Claims Nixed In IP Suit
• FTC Clears Wells Fargo To Buy Cargill's LaCrosse
• National Express Buys School Bus Co. Petermann For $200M
• HMB Snags Finance, Bankruptcy Quartet From Dykema
• Reworking Regulations On Use Of Derivatives
• Obama Sends Congress Deficit-Neutral $447B Jobs Bill
• PharMerica Sued Over Rebuffed $441M Omnicare Deal
• NY Judge Trims Oppenheimer's Case Against Banks
• Caliper Investor Sues To Block $600M PerkinElmer Deal
• Overhauling Brazil's Antitrust System
• Sprint Suit Over AT&T Merger Goes Where DOJ Doesn't
• Akerman Reps Penthouse Parent In $65M Deals Site Buy
• Skadden Aids MacAndrews In $480M MFW Buyout
• Kilpatrick Townsend Picks Up Wilson Sonsini Atty In Calif.
• Venture Capital Firm Wants In On Illarramendi Fraud Suit
• UK Commission Wants Retail, Investment Banking Split Up
• Skadden Advises Broadcom In $3.7B NetLogic Purchase
• Skadden Reps Colfax In $2.4B Charter International Buy
• McGraw-Hill To Split Into Capital Markets, Education Cos.
• Davis Polk Advises Technip In $1B Global Industries Deal
• Latham & Watkins Helps Bug Music In Sale To BMG
• Can A Usury Savings Clause Save The Lender?
• Goldman, Others Face More Discovery In Antitrust LBO Suit
• Openlane Investor Sues To Block $210M KAR Auction Deal
• Sbarro Cleared To Auction Assets
• Holland & Knight Adds Dickstein Energy Guru
• AT&T Rips DOJ's 'Anti-Competitive' Merger-Blocking Suit
• An Integrated Approach To Anti-Corruption
• Dems Urge FTC To Dig Into Express Scripts-Medco Deal
• The Country Network Sues Broadcaster To Uphold Sale
• Scotiabank Buys Stake In China's Guangzhou For $721M
• Hunton & Williams Snags Finance Star From Mayer Brown
• SmithAmundsen LLC Adds Privacy, Corporate Specialist
• Wi-LAN Urges Mosaid Investors To OK $490M Hostile Deal
• Australia Renews Bid To Block $225M Metcash Deal
• Investec To Pick Up Evolution For $370M
• Case Study: CML V LLC V. Bax
• Volkswagen, Porsche Merger Delayed Over Legal Woes
• Ace Acquires Penn Millers In $107M Deal
• Cadwalader M&A Heavyweight Jumps To Greenberg
• WilmerHale Reps PerkinElmer In $600M Caliper Buy
• DOJ Orders Divestitures In $2.4B Cumulus-Citadel Deal
• Judge Greenlights $495M DIP Loan For NewPage
• SNR Denton Adds Cross-Border Energy M&A Team
• Google Nabs Zagat To Boost Local Offerings
• Lowenstein Snags Ex-Reitler Tech, VC Partner
• Gallo Holdings Enters Ch. 11 With Eye On Asset Sale
• Merge Healthcare Exits Coverage Fight Over $3M Award
• Ex-BP Exec's New Venture Strikes $2B Iraq Oil Deal
• Chesapeake, Execs Sued Over Stock Offering Omissions
• $10B HP-Autonomy Deal Leaves Plaintiffs Few Options
• Omnicare Takes $716M Bid For PharMerica Hostile
• Weil Scores Restructuring Ace From Jones Day
• Judge OKs $2.5M DIP Loans To Fund Solyndra Sale
• Regions Can't Escape Investor Action Over AmSouth Buy
• Lehman, Barclays Spar Over $2B Compensation Contract
• Sbarro Presses For Ch. 11 Auction Plan
• Linking IFC Funding To Community Agreement
• EU Seeks More Scrutiny Of Cross-Border Energy Deals
• Real Estate Pro Joins Fried Frank Corporate Team
• Ex-H&R Block CEO Defends $287M TaxACT Buy
• Former Duane Reade CFO Skirts Prison Term
• Evergreen Solar Gets Tentative OK For Auction Plan
• Former AOL CFO Settles SEC Suit Over Inflated Revenue
• Wells Fargo Reaches Deal To Buy Cargill's LaCrosse
• Chadbourne & Parke Opens Istanbul Office
• Sunoco To Sell Off Refineries In Strategy Shift
• Vinson Reps Multi-Chem In Sale To Halliburton
• Simpson Thacher Reps Carlyle Group In $100M IPO
• Sprint Sues To Block $39B AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
• Ceglia Claims Facebook Attys Leaked His Email Passwords
• Duke, Progress Strike Deal With SC Officials Over Merger
• K&L Taps Simmons Mideast Vet For Dubai Finance Work
• Vacating The SEC's Proxy Access Rule
• Mayer Brown Adds Debevoise Insurance Dealmaker
• Debevoise Reps International Paper In $4.3B Temple Buy
• Nixon Peabody Snags 2 Paul Hastings Corporate Pros
• Carlyle Investors Sue Over 'Disastrous' IPO
• Lawyers Question DOJ's Endgame In AT&T Suit
• Del. High Court Denies Standing To Defunct LLC's Creditor
• MGM Seeks To Purchase $11M United Debt
• Creditors, BNY Mellon Object To Sbarro Asset Sale
• FTC Makes DaVita Sell Dialysis Clinics In $689M DSI Deal
• NY Appeals Court Bars Sale Of 14 Manhattan Properties
• Davis Polk Reps Murphy In $625M Refinery Sale To Valero
• Chinese Steel Group Buys $1.95B Stake In Brazil's CBMM
• Paul Weiss Reps Liz Claiborne In $85M Mexx Deal
• Anglo American, Lafarge Deal Draws UK Antitrust Probe
• Hogan Lovells Reps NextEra In $1B Gas Plants Sale
• Silicon Valley Corporate Pro Takes Team To Sheppard
• O'Melveny, Debevoise Rep AIG In Aircraft Unit IPO
• US Gold, Minera Andes Make Strides Toward Merger
• Achaian — Lessons For Drafting LLC Agreements
• CardioNet Can't Escape IPO Class Action
• BJ's Shareholders Drop Bid To Block $2.8B Buyout
• Judge OKs Sale Of Alabama Aircraft To Kaiser
• Comcast-NBC Merger Gets Judge's OK, With Conditions
• Judge Tosses Oracle's $1.3B Copyright Win Against SAP
• China Finalizes Regs For National Security Merger Reviews
• Vinson & Elkins Reps Forum Energy In $300M IPO
• Westfield, Rouse Must Hand Over Atty Advice: Court
• Goldman Cleans Up Foreclosures As Fed Orders Review
• Flint Adds Carson In $165M Canadian Oil Deal
• J.Crew Renews Merger Settlement With Investors For $16M
• Countrywide Was 'Flying Blind' Before $4B BofA Deal: Atty
• TerreStar: Lender Liens And FCC Licenses
• OFT Renews Ryanair, Aer Lingus Deal Probe
• Regions Says 2nd Circ. Opinion Kills Ala. Fraud Suit
• Untangling The Matter Of Harlem River Yard Ventures
• Diamondback Manager Coughs Up $1.3M In SEC Fraud Suit
• Cravath Reps IBM In $387M Algorithmics Buy