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January 15, 2015 | Law.com

Suits Over Mining Companies' Merger Settle for $137.5M

The parties in several shareholder derivative suits filed over a Phoenix company's $19 billion acquisition of two copper and gold mining operations have jointly settled for $137.5 million, according to a settlement agreement signed by the parties.
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January 15, 2015 | Law.com

Commercial Division Rulings Target Class Action Accords

A non-monetary settlement of a class action brought against a $2.7 billion acquisition in the building materials industry has been rejected by a judge who found the objecting plaintiffs are in the business of "trying to make money from litigation."
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January 15, 2015 | Law.com

Are 'Wolf Pack' Hedge Fund Activists a Dying Breed?

Calling 2014 the "year of the wolf pack" because of attacks by hedge fund activists on corporations, a lawyer has compiled significant developments that suggest the trend may be ready to change.
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January 14, 2015 |

After Long Careers, Am Law Luminaries Look to New Horizons

From Akin's John Dowd to Vinson & Elkins' Joe Dilg, the start of 2015 has led some lions of the bar to retire. Some, like Dilg, are leaving Am Law 100 life early to try their hand on the business side, while others, such as Baker Botts' Robert Jordan and McGuireWoods' Richard Lieberman, are preparing for book tours.
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January 14, 2015 | Law.com

After Long Careers, Am Law Luminaries Look to New Horizons

From Akin's John Dowd to Vinson & Elkins' Joe Dilg, the start of 2015 has led some lions of the bar to retire. Some, like Dilg, are leaving Am Law 100 life early to try their hand on the business side, while others, such as Baker Botts' Robert Jordan and McGuireWoods' Richard Lieberman, are preparing for book tours.
8 minute read
January 13, 2015 |

Two Commercial Division Judges Rule Against Class Action Accords

A Manhattan Commercial Division judge has rejected a non-monetary settlement of a class action brought against a $2.7 billion acquisition in the building materials industry because the objecting plaintiffs are in the business of “trying to make money from litigation.”
5 minute read
January 13, 2015 | Law.com

Two Commercial Division Judges Rule Against Class Action Accords

A Manhattan Commercial Division judge has rejected a non-monetary settlement of a class action brought against a $2.7 billion acquisition in the building materials industry because the objecting plaintiffs are in the business of “trying to make money from litigation.”
5 minute read
January 12, 2015 |

N.Y. State Judges Taking Hard Line on Shareholder Deals

The latest "disclosure-only" shareholder settlement to draw a judge's ire would have resolved litigation over Martin Marietta Materials Inc.'s $2.7 billion acquisition of Texas Industries.
3 minute read
January 12, 2015 | Law.com

N.Y. State Judges Taking Hard Line on Shareholder Deals

The latest "disclosure-only" shareholder settlement to draw a judge's ire would have resolved litigation over Martin Marietta Materials Inc.'s $2.7 billion acquisition of Texas Industries.
3 minute read
January 08, 2015 |

Litigator of the Week: Kevin Abrams of Abrams & Bayliss

Siding with Abrams, a Delaware judge refused to foist new rules on hedge funds using a strategy called appraisal arbitrage to squeeze profits out of allegedly undervalued M&A deals.
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