“Mergers 101” [Continued]

"Mergers 101" prompted some reader response curious for more detail behind my concluding observation about how the composition of the AmLaw 200 as of 2004 differed from that as of 1999.  Here are the raw numbers: 11 firms were acquired 3 dissolved 8...

Mergers 101

If you read only one article this quarter about mergers, this should be it.  Not only is the author the former managing partner of Andersen Legal (until it imploded), before that he was managing partner of Clifford Chance.  Sure, he comes from a UK-centric...

Growth for Growth’s Sake

One of the more remarkable implications of Microsoft’s recent announcement to return $32-billion to shareholders in a one-time special dividend later this year was its sub silentio admission that it didn’t have any better ideas about what to do with the...

More “Strong on Strong” Mergers?

With the publication of the 2004 AmLaw 100 this week comes the inevitable desire for prognostications about the future.  The American Lawyer has obliged with a piece predicting, among other things: increasing pressure for "strong on strong" mergers...
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