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Mergers & Acquisitions - June, 2010

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• House Passes Major Financial Overhaul Bill
• FTC Requires Divestitures For $2B Flying J Deal
• Lehman Judge Cracks Open Door For BNY Appeal
• United American 'Greenmailing' Case Tossed
• Pension Calls Ralcorp's AIPC Share Buy A 'Sham'
• Alcon Shareholders Seek 2nd Shot In Merger Suit
• Kirkland Reps Boeing In $775M Argon Tender Offer
• Ticket Buyers Sue To Stop $3B Continental-United Deal
• Jones Day Reps Sanofi In $560M TargeGen Buy
• Proskauer, Jones Day Rep Celgene In $3B Abraxis Buy
• UBS Hits Highland Capital With $686M Fraud Suit
• Guidance On Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
• Injunction Lifted On LB Foster's $112M Portec Buy
• Fried Frank Aids Goldman In $1.7B Michael Foods Buy
• Emerson Ups Chloride Offer To $1.5B In Bidding War
• Genesis To Buy Chinese Methane Play For $350M
• Finance Bill Talks Resume As Senate Support Wanes
• Columbia Sues To Get AmeriGas Propane Suit In Del.
• AIPC Shareholder Sues Over $1.2B Ralcorp Merger
• High Court Ruling Won't Upend SOX Oversight Board
• 8 Considerations For Your Next Information Request
• Top Democrats Eye PCAOB Ruling's Effect On Agencies
• Makhteshim To Buy Albaugh In $1B Weed Killer Tie-Up
• Baker Botts Advises Noble In $2B Frontier Acquisition
• High Court Rules Oversight Of SOX Board Insufficient
• AbitibiBowater Backstop Deal For $500M Offering OK'd
• Movie Gallery's $3M Sale Of Video Games OK'd
• FCC Pauses NBC-Comcast Deal For Lack Of Info
• The Outer Bounds Of Safe Harbors
• Gilead To Pay Up To $120M For CGI Pharmaceuticals
• Akin Gump Advises Goldman In Weinstein Debt Deal
• A Calif. School District's Path To Solar
• Norton Rose Reps AXA In $4.1B Resolution Deal
• Baker Botts Reps Reliance In $1.3B Pioneer Gas Deal
• China To Get Stake In $1.8B Volvo Deal
• Game Co. Aims To Block $3M Movie Gallery Asset Sale
• BMB Group Nabs Stake In Alliance Capital
• Tribune Examiner Seeks More Time For Report
• Clifford Chance Reps BASF In €3.1B Cognis Purchase
• AbitibiBowater Looks To Better-Deal $500M Plan
• AT&T Gets OK To Buy $2.35B In Verizon Licenses
• Dechert Acquires 3 Fried Frank Financial Partners
• Intercreditor Terms Between 1st- And 2nd-Lien Lenders
• Nvidia Escapes Suit Over Secret Lease Deal
• EU Extends Probe Into $160M Syngenta, Monsanto Deal
• British Airways Reaches Deal On $5.5B Pension Deficit
• Booz Allen Plans $300M IPO To Ease Debt
• Barclays CEO Admits He Sought Buffer In Lehman Deal
• Trade Logistics Co.'s Atty Nixed In Asset Sale Dispute
• EarthLink, Others Fight $37B Comcast-NBC Deal
• 'Ordinary Course Of Business' In Debt Agreements
• Goldman Gets More Time To Answer SEC Fraud Suit
• BHP-Rio Tinto Deal Faces Extended Antitrust Scrutiny
• Objections To Ticketmaster Deal Lack Merit, DOJ Says
• Judge Throws Trading Suspect's Bail Plan In Limbo
• Skadden Reps Valeant In $3.2B Biovail Merger
• BNY Mellon Boosts Canada Presence With I(3) Buy
• White & Case Reps Acergy In $2.5B Subsea 7 Merger
• Lehman Left In The Dark After Barclays Sale: Exec
• Casey's Asks Court To Block $1.9B Couche-Tard Bid
• Ralcorp To Buy American Italian Pasta For $1.2B
• Skadden Reps AkzoNobel In $1.3B Nat'l Starch Buy
• The Shifting Sands Of Limited Liability Principles
• UBS Insider Trading Suspect Still In Custody
• 9th Circ. Greenlights Pre-Arbitration Court Injunctions
• 2nd Circ. Sinks Merger Fraud Suit Against JPMorgan
• Pillsbury Lands 14 Nixon Finance, Corporate Attys
• Alcon Shareholders Can't Keep Merger Suit In US
• KKR To Buy Usen's Job Placement Unit For $356M
• Financing Conditions: More Than Just Boilerplate
• AOL Takes Huge Hit In Selling Off Bebo
• Fujitsu, Toshiba To Merge Cell Phone Businesses
• Extended Stay Creditors Tout Rival Starwood Plan
• Shareholder Says $242M Price For Double-Take Too Low
• Pillsbury Winthrop Counsels Inphi In $115M IPO
• Exco To Buy Southwestern Shale Assets For $355M
• Arnold & Porter Advises Savvis In $121M Fusepoint Deal
• Hogan Lovells Energy Chair Joins King & Spalding
• Web.com Buys Register.com For $135M Cash, Debt
• 'Strategic' Deal-Making: Will Agencies End The Party?
• Firm's Win Upheld In Malpractice Suit Over Gillette Deal
• DC Circ. Rejects Canadian Pacific Rail Deal Challenges
• Philip Morris To Fight Denial Of $452M Colombia Deal
• Covidien Snaps Up Somanetics For $250M
• MagnaChip Seeks To Raise Up To $130M In IPO
• Foresight For Established Investment Managers
• Freshfields Reps Sara Lee In €154M SC Johnson Deal
• Weil Gotshal Reps Keystone In $1.3B Sale To Marfrig
• Rangers Lenders Say MLB Blocked Competing Bids
• Starwood Tries To Block $4B Extended Stay Sale
• WaMu, FDIC Object To Renewed Call For Examiner
• Legacy Oil To Snap Up CanEra For $488M
• Wilson Sonsini Reps Tesla In $178M IPO
• FTC Seeks More Info On Avis, Dollar Thrifty Deal
• Resolution Mulls $4B Purchase Of British AXA Outfits
• Lionsgate, Icahn Step Up Fight Over Tender Offer
• MoFo Reps NTT Data In $200M Intelligroup Tie-Up
• Sullivan & Cromwell Reps Cablevision In $1.3B Deal
• Optics Part Maker Fabrinet Launches $119M IPO Deal
• Allen & Overy Reps Dana In €328M Petro Canada Buy
• A Lesson In Delaware Court Scrutiny Of Transactions
• Hogan Lovells Nabs 1st Post-Merger Corporate Lateral
• EU Sets Deadline For Comcast-NBC Merger Review
• Judge Sinks Class In Suit Over Superior Offshore IPO
• Icahn Raises Specter Of Ch. 11 Over Lionsgate
• AIG Amends $2.2B Taiwan Deal In Bid To Speed Sale
• Q&A With Kelley Drye & Warren's Paul McCurdy
• Casey's Accuses Couche-Tard Of Pump, Dump Scheme
• Foley Signs On Nixon Peabody Energy, Finance Pro
• Reliance Industries Snaps Up Infotel Stake For $1B
• Is The Venture Economy Back Or Do We Just Think So?
• DOJ Requires Divestiture For Amcor's $2B Alcan Buy
• GSK Expands In Argentina With $253M Phoenix Buy
• China's AgBank Gets Green Light For $30B IPO
• Jones Day Reps Virage In $315M Synopsys Deal
• Ballard Spahr Reps PMA In $365M Old Republic Merger
• Easy Prey: Small Cap Cos. With No Takeover Defenses
• UK Competition Agency To Probe Underwriting Fees
• Palm Agrees To Settle Shareholder Suit Over HP Deal
• WaMu Court Fast-Tracks Hearing On Examiner
• F&C, UKCPT Pen £1.6B Real Estate Merger
• Mayer Brown Reps Healthcare Solutions In $517M Sale
• Canada OKs Icahn's Lionsgate Takeover Plans
• Extended Stay Seeks OK Of Centerbridge's $4B Buy
• Davis Polk Reps Santander In $2.5B BofA Deal
• Sidley Reps Allscripts In $1.3B Deal For Eclipsys
• High Court Antitrust Trends — Sans Stevens
• Icahn Gets 2 Seats On Genzyme Board In Proxy Deal
• Kirkland Helps Aryzta Snap Up 2 Food Cos. For $1.1B
• WaMu Equity Group Renews Call For Examiner
• CKX Shareholders Sue Over $600M Buyout Bid
• ABB Inks $1.25B Deal to Acquire Chloride Group
• ConAgra Sells Dried Vegetable Unit To Olam For $250M
• Microsoft Plans To Raise $1B In Note Offering
• 2nd Circ. Denies FDIC $22M Coverage For Merger Fraud
• Protecting Potential Tax Refunds For Secured Creditors
• Casey's Urges Investors To Nix $1.9B Couche-Tard Bid
• Lloyds Shareholders Wield Claims Over HBOS Deal
• Judge OKs Tribune Disclosure Statement
• InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Set For Auction Block
• NY District Atty Offers Corporate Prosecution Protocol
• Proskauer Reps Grifols In $3.4B Talecris Buy
• Coke To Pay $715M To Distribute Dr. Pepper
• Minority Media Owners Wary Of Comcast-NBC Deal
• Debevoise Advises Altegrity On $1B Kroll Purchase
• Ex-Dragon Execs Sue Goldman Over Merger Advice
• The Art Of Client Alerts And Bulletins
• 9th Circ. Grounds America West Pilots' Seniority Suit
• Former Time Exec, Great Hill Partners Buy Ziff Davis
• Shell To Close Down Montreal Oil Refinery
• China's AgBank Gears Up For Record $30B IPO
• NFL Ruling Raises Antitrust Bar For Joint Ventures
• HSBC In Talks For 5 Private Equity Fund Buyouts
• Paulson To Buy Stake In Harrah's For $710M In Debt
• Paul Weiss Counsels Wellspring In $122M Omni Deal
• Lawyers And Money: Profession For Sale?
• Lehman Sells Real Estate Funds To Former Managers
• Javelin Says Hospira Breached $145M Merger Deal
• Gerdau To Take Over Ameristeel Unit for $1.6B
• Air Products Extends $5.1B Bid For Reluctant Airgas
• Saddled With Debt, Nielsen Plans $1.75B Share Offer
• Kirkland, Fenwick Advise On $717M SonicWALL Buy
• Telecoms Kill Blocked €1.5B Orange-Sunrise Merger
• 3rd Circ. Hands 'Exide' Mark To Rival EnerSys
• Kilpatrick Reps Equifax On Direct Marketing Unit Sale
• Del. Law Governs 3Com's Suit Over Nixed Merger: Judge
• Sidley Austin M&A Partner Jumps To Jones Day
• Thelen Secures Exit From Loewen Bond Offering Suit
• BWAY Packs Away Stockholder Suit Over Merger
• UK's Jupiter To Offer $322M In IPO
• Sonic Solutions Buys DivX For $300M
• The Pervasive Problem Of Numerosity
• Couche-Tard Relaunches $1.9B Hostile Bid For Casey's
• Allen & Overy Draws Herbert Smith Energy M&A Attys
• US Watchdog Widens Probe Into $150M SEC-BofA Deal
• EU Probes Areva, Siemens Noncompete Clauses
• Prudential Calls Off $35B Deal For AIG's Asia Unit
• GM Tort Claimants Fail To Sway Judge To Allow Suits
• Lionsgate Shareholders Reject Latest Icahn Offer
• Visteon Pooh-Poohs Johnson Controls' $1.3B Offer
• UK Calls For Input On Post-Cadbury Merger Reforms
• Kirkland Taps Ashurst Private Equity Duo For UK Office
• DOJ Seeks More Info On Oracle, Phase Forward Merger
• EU Opens In-Depth Probe Into Unilever-Sara Lee Deal
• NEGI To Settle Derivative Suit Over Asset Sale For $9M
• Caterpillar Unit Snaps Up Electro-Motive For $820M
• Activision Board Upheld Duty In Vivendi Merger: Court
• AIG Snubs Prudential's $5B Price Cut For Asian Unit
• Covidien To Pay $2.6B For Vascular Device Maker