Jones Day

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Law Firm Overview

Jones Day Cleveland, the Firm's first office, has grown to more than 220 lawyers since it first opened its doors in 1893. Since that time, Jones Day has served successive generations of companies that have anchored the region's business community. The Cleveland Office represents clients in all facets of business – from leading companies in the region's traditional manufacturing, mining, energy, utility, and steelmaking industries, to those in health care, banking, private equity, and technology.

The Cleveland Office serves corporate clients, ranging from privately-owned businesses to Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 enterprises. Our attorneys have substantial capability in each of the Firm’s primary practice areas, with particular depth in Business Restructuring & Reorganization, Corporate Criminal Investigations, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Health Care, Insurance Recovery, Intellectual Property, Issues & Appeals, Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, and Business and Tort Litigation (USA). A highly qualified staff and state-of-the-art technology, including one of several strategically located Jones Day litigation centers, provide extensive support for our attorneys.

As an integral part of the seamless global network of 2,400 lawyers in key centers of business and finance worldwide, we bring the talent, experience, and cutting-edge resources of the entire Firm to bear on developing creative and cost-effective solutions to the sophisticated issues and challenging opportunities facing our clients in today’s business environment.

In addition to serving as principal legal advisor to the region's leading businesses, Jones Day's leadership role extends to the community as a whole.  Our lawyers are regularly called upon to help lead the region's key civic, charitable and educational institutions, as well as bar and other legal organizations. We also are regularly recognized by the legal community for our long-standing commitment to providing pro bono legal services.

Areas of Practice

• Africa Practice
• Airlines & Aviation
• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust & Intellectual Property
• Antitrust / Distribution, Marketing & Sales
• Antitrust Civil Investigations & Litigation
• Antitrust Criminal Investigations
• Antitrust in the Americas
• Antitrust Mergers & Joint Ventures
• Automotive
• Banking & Finance
• Biotechnology
• Borrower / Workouts / Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Business and Tort Litigation (USA)
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Buyouts
• Capital Markets
• Class Action & Multidistrict Litigation
• Class Action Employment Litigation
• Climate Change
• Construction
• Consumer Financial Products & Services
• Consumer Fraud & Economic Loss Litigation
• Consumer Products & Retail
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• Corporate Criminal Investigations
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Real Estate Services
• Credit Crisis
• Creditors Committee / Ad Hoc Committee Representations
• Cross-Border Restructuring Matters
• Diagnostics
• Distressed Company Litigation
• Distressed M&A Representations
• Distressed Real Estate Transactions
• e-Discovery
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Employee Benefits for Tax-Exempt or Governmental Entities & Church Plans
• Employee Benefits in Bankruptcies
• Employee Benefits in Mergers & Acquisitions, including Private Equity
• Energy
• Energy / Utilities
• Energy Dispute Resolution
• Energy Finance
• Environmental Compliance Counseling
• Environmental Litigation
• Environmental Transactions
• Environmental, Health & Safety
• ERISA & Other Employee Benefits Litigation
• ERISA Plan Assets, Employer Securities & Use of Institutional Fiduciaries
• Executive Compensation
• False Claims Act & Qui Tam Defense
• Federal and State Wage-Hour Counseling & Litigation
• Federal Circuit & IP Appeals
• Financial & Commercial Fraud
• Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation
• Financial Services
• Florida Practice
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Counseling & Defense
• Franchising & Distribution
• Fund Structuring & Fund Services
• Global Disputes
• Global Infrastructure & Project Finance
• Government Contracts Counseling & Litigation
• Government Regulation
• Health & Welfare Plan Counseling
• Health Care
• Health Care Compliance Counseling & Regulatory Advice
• Health Care Litigation & Government Investigations Defense
• Health Care Private Equity
• Health Care Transactions
• Hospitality
• Insurance
• Insurance Recovery
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property Crimes
• Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance Programs & Employee Misconduct
• International Trade & National Security
• Issues & Appeals
• ITC Section 337
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• Labor & Employment
• Latin America
• Lending
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• Life Sciences
• M&A Transactions
• Medical Devices
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mergers & Acquisitions Taxation
• Metals & Mining
• Oil & Gas Shale Plays
• Outsourcing
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Prosecution & IP Counseling
• Pharmaceuticals
• Privacy & Data Security
• Private Equity
• Private Equity / Real Estate Taxation
• Product Liability Litigation
• Public Corruption Investigations
• Qualified Plan Counseling
• Real Estate
• Real Estate & Property Companies
• Real Estate Capital Markets
• Real Estate Energy Development
• Real Estate Finance
• Real Estate Funds
• Securities Fraud Class Actions
• Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement
• Shareholder Derivative Actions
• Single & Multiple Plaintiff Employment Litigation
• State & Local Taxation
• State Attorneys General Investigations & Litigation
• Structured Finance Taxation
• Tax
• Tax Audits & Controversies
• Toxic Tort Exposure Litigation
• Trademarks, Unfair Competition & Copyrights
• Trial Litigation in Federal & State Courts
• Venture Capital & Private Investment

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: More Uncertainty About State Treatment Of Vertical Pricing Restraints, 2012
• Health Care Reform: What If They Throw the Whole Thing Out?, 2012
• EEOC Issues New Guidance on the Use of Criminal Background Checks by Employers, 2012
• The CFPB's Study on Arbitration Clauses: The First Step to Unraveling Concepcion in Consumer Transactions?, 2012
• OFCCP Rescinds Directive on Jurisdiction Over Health Care Providers, 2012
• Congress Passes JOBS Act: Reducing the Burden for Capital Raising Activities for Smaller Companies, 2012
• Trends in Health Care Enforcement and Compliance, Cleveland Metropolitan Law Journal, 2012
• Supreme Court Leaves in Place Third Circuit Rule Welcoming Challenges to Foreign Conduct into U.S. Courts, 2012
• New SAFE Circular 7—What Does It Mean for Your Company?, 2012
• Conflicts of Interest Continue to Dominate in Recent M&A Litigation, 2012
• The Most Recent Reminder that Delaware Courts Continue to Focus on Conflicts of Interest, 2012
• CFPB Initiates Inquiry, Requests Information Regarding Overdraft Practices, 2012
• "Forgotten" Say-On-Pay Frequency Disclosure, 2012
• Cleveland Office, 2012
• CMS Publishes Long-Awaited 60-Day Repayment Proposed Rule for Identified Overpayments, 2012
• Exempt Reporting Advisers: Requirements for Investment Advisers that Qualify as Venture Capital Advisers or Private Fund Advisers, 2012
• Final Fee Disclosure Regulation: Additional Hurdles for Service Providers and Plan Fiduciaries, 2012
• CFPB and FTC Agree to Coordinate Enforcement and Regulatory Efforts, 2012
• NYSE Further Limits Discretionary Voting by Brokers, 2012
• Supreme Court's Arbitration Opinion in CompuCredit Corp. Underscores Importance of CFPB's Upcoming Review of Arbitration Clauses, 2012
• Tax Reporting Deadline Rapidly Approaching for Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Rights, 2012
• Employee Stock Plans: Year-End International Reporting Requirements—2012 Update, 2012
• NLRB Extends Date For Mandatory Postings to April 30, 2012, 2012
• Labor Board Purports to Invalidate Class Action Waivers in Employment Arbitration Agreements, 2012
• The Expansion of Bankruptcy Code Section 546(e)'s Application to Leveraged Buyouts Involving Privately Held Securities, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, 2012
• SEC Issues Final Rules Under Dodd-Frank Act Regarding Mine Safety Disclosure, 2011
• Delaware Court of Chancery Awards $1.263 Billion in Damages for Controlling Stockholder Transaction Found to be Unfair, 2011
• SEC Adopts New Risk Reporting Requirements for Certain Registered Investment Advisers to Private Funds (Form PF), 2011
• CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood: The Supreme Court Revisits Binding Arbitration Clauses in the Consumer Finance Context, 2011
• Antitrust Alert: Recent U.S. Cases May Allow New Antitrust Challenges to Foreign Conduct, 2011
• NLRB Issues Controversial Decision on Standard for Unit Appropriateness Determinations, 2011
• Seventh Circuit Rules That Secured Creditors Must Be Given the Right to Credit-Bid, 2011
• The 2011 Patent Reform Act, 2011
• Global Stock Plans Update, 2011
• Health Care Compliance and Enforcement Update, 2011
• NLRB Issues Rule Mandating Notices Informing Employees About Rights to Organize, 2011
• Voluntary Client Testimony as a Privilege Waiver: Is Ohio's Law Caught in a Time Warp? 59 Clev. St. L. Rev. 1, 2011
• Recent Copyright Case Developments—August 5, 2011, 2011
• CFPB Releases Investigation and Adjudication Rules—September 26, 2011 Comment Deadline, 2011
• D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates Proxy Access Rule, 2011
• SEC's Final Whistleblower Rules Provide Important Incentives for Effective Corporate Compliance Programs, 2011
• CFPB Announces Examination Process for Large Banks Begins July 21, 2011
• CFPB's Non-Bank Supervision Authority: Is Your Company a "Larger Participant"?, 2011
• Employee Stock Plans: Mid-Year International Reporting Requirements, 2011
• Delaware Supreme Court Reaffirms Disgorgement as Insider Trading Remedy, 2011
• CFPB Identifies Preliminary List of Transferred Rules, 2011
• Delaware Court of Chancery Clarifies Revlon Applicability in Mixed-Consideration Transactions, 2011
• Federal Reserve Board Proposal for "Ability to Repay" Regulation Opens Comment Period Through July 22, 2011, 2011
• Innovative Solutions in Financial Crisis: JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Charter Comm'cns Operating, LLC (in re Charter Comm'cns), The Banking Law Journal, 2011
• Does Dodd-Frank Provide the Seeds to Unravel Concepcion in Consumer Financing Transactions?, 2011
• OCC Reaches Settlement with Bank Mortgage Servicers, 2011
• Criminal Actions Against Failed Bank Executives, 2011
• Cost-Benefit Consideration in Regulating Debt Protection Products, 2011
• U.S. Leniency, PLC Competition 2011 Volume 2: Leniency, 2011
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules That a Drug’s Adverse Event Reports May be Material to Investors Even Though not "Statistically Significant", 2011
• Supreme Court Rules That FLSA's Anti-Retaliation Provision Covers Oral Complaints, 2011
• S. 23: The U.S. Senate's Patent Reform Bill, 2011
• In re BP Lubricants: False Patent Marking Claims Must Be Pled With Particularity, and Conclusory Allegations of False Marking Are Insufficient, 2011
• How Efficient is the Market? Supreme Court Declines to Address Permissible Time Lag for Showing Loss Causation in Securities-Fraud Cases, 2011
• Delaware Chancery Court Upholds Poison Pill in Takeover Battle for Airgas, 2011
• Unique Product Solutions, Ltd. v. Hy-Grade Valve, Inc.: Section 292(b) Violates the "Take Care" Clause of Article II of the Constitution, 2011
• SEC Adopts Final "Say-on-Pay" Rules, 2011
• Employee Stock Plans 2010: Year-End International Reporting Requirements, 2010
• SEC Proposes Rules for New Whistleblower Program, 2010
• Fully Insured Group Health Plans May No Longer Provide Discriminatory Benefits, 2010
• FASB Delays Changes to Disclosures Related to Loss Contingencies, 2010
• Barnes & Noble Defends Poison Pill Adopted in Context of Proxy Contest in Yucaipa, 2010
• Cut your risks in licensing, AIPPI Congress News, 2010
• Pregnancy Discrimination Case Effects Change in Ohio Law, 2010
• Antitrust Alert: Federal Circuit Decision Limits Patent Misuse and Distinguishes It From Antitrust, 2010
• SEC Adopts Final Rules Facilitating Shareholder Nominations of Directors, 2010
• Stauffer v. Brooks Brothers, Inc.: Private Parties Have Standing To Sue Under The False Marking Statute, 2010
• Alert: New Disclosure Requirements for Natural Resource Companies Under Dodd-Frank Act, 2010
• Strickland commutes death row inmate's sentence to life without parole, The Columbus Dispatch, 2010
• The Wall Street Reform Act: Its Impact on Advisers to Private Funds, 2010
• Claims and Appeals Procedures: New Internal and External Review Requirements, 2010
• SEC Adopts Final Rules to Eliminate Perceived "Pay-To-Play" Practices by Investment Advisers and Private Fund Managers, 2010
• Machine-or-transformation is "a useful and important clue," but not the sole test, Intellectual Property Magazine, Focus on Licensing, 2010
• An Ounce of Prevention—Not Just a Good Idea, Now It's the Law: Health Care Reform Requires Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans to Provide Preventive Services With No Cost-Sharing, 2010
• Dodd-Frank: Short Title, Short-Termism, 2010
• What a Relief?—Congress Finally Passes Pension Funding Legislation, 2010
• Thou Shalt Not Exclude, Rescind, or Limit: Agencies Release Regulations Implementing "Patient's Bill of Rights", 2010
• The Retiree-Only Plan Exception: Is It Still Effective After Health Care Reform?, 2010
• The Machine-or-Transformation Test Is "a Useful and Important Clue" for Determining Patent Eligibility Under Section 101, But Not the Sole Test, 2010
• Women-Owned Small Business Alert: SBA Proposes New Rule to Change Government Contract Eligibility, 2010
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Is It Worth Maintaining Grandfathered Status Under the New Health Care Law?, 2010
• Surprise for Employers: No Collective Bargaining Exception Under Health Care Reform, 2010
• Pequignot v. Solo Cup: The Federal Circuit Continues to Define and Clarify the Law of False Marking, 2010
• Climate Change Regulation Via the Clean Air Act: EPA's New Greenhouse Gas Rule for Facilities, 2010
• FASB Deliberations Return to Litigation Contingency Disclosures, 2010
• A Tectonic Shift For Administrative Rent Claims? Bankruptcy Court Rejects "Actual Use" Limitation On Debtor-Lessee's Obligation To Pay Postpetition Rent Under Commercial Equipment Lease, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2010
• Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co.: Opening The Floodgates For A New Wave Of Suits By "Marking Trolls," AIPPI e-News No. 12, 2010
• Patent Prosecution Highways: Accelerating the Patent Examination Process, 2010
• Coming of Age: Extended Health Coverage for Children to Age 26, 2010
• The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program—U.S. Employers To Line Up for $5 Billion Pool of Federal Funds, 2010
• Selectica Decision Upholds Adoption and Use of 4.99% NOL Rights Plan, 2010
• 2009: A Changing Bankruptcy Landscape And How It Affected Labor and Benefit Issues, 2010 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2010
• Health Care Reform Includes Aggressive Fraud Initiative: HHS OIG, DoJ, and Congress Ramp Up Enforcement and Prevention Efforts, 2010
• How Lloyd's Saved Itself, Jones Day In Print, 2010
• New Requirements for an Effective Compliance and Ethics Program, 2010
• Impact of Health Care Reform Legislation on Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans, 2010
• EPA Delays Greenhouse Gas Permits for Manufacturing Plants, 2010
• EPA Proposes to Add Oil and Natural Gas, Carbon Sequestration, and Fluorinated Gas-Emitting Facilities to Greenhouse Gas Reporting System, 2010
• Quality Stores Puts FICA Refund Opportunity for Severance Pay Back on the Table, 2010
• Legal: Raising the Stakes, Inside Healthcare, 2010
• Health Care Reform—Upcoming Effective Dates for Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans, 2010
• IRS Provides Targeted Relief for FBAR Filers, Including Investors in Foreign Investment Funds, 2010
• BPA, Phthalates, and the Law, 2010
• Maintaining Leverage In Licensing Deals, Patent World, Issue #220, 2010
• SEC Issues Guidance on Disclosures Related to Climate Change, 2010
• IRS Releases Section 409A Documentary Correction Program, 2010
• The Delaware Court of Chancery Offers New Arbitration Procedures for Confidential, Efficient Resolution of Significant Business Disputes, 2010
• Earnings Releases: Securities Law Considerations, 2010
• Prade asks high court for new DNA testing, Akron Beacon Journal, 2009
• Article, Limited Voir Dire: Why It Fails to Detect Jury Bias, Criminal Justice Magazine, Vol. 23/ No. 4, 2009
• Ohio’s CAT May Constitutionally Be Applied To Food Vendors, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2009
• Emily's Law: Ohio Pharmacy Technicians and Their Employers Face New State Regulations, 2009
• First Nexus Challenge to Ohio's Commercial Activity Tax - Overstock.com, Inc., Jones Day State Tax Return, 2009
• Jones Day volunteers preserve housing, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, poetic justice, vol. 5 issue 3, 2008
• Round 2 Goes To Food Distributors. Ohio Supreme Court To Be Called Upon To Decide Constitutionality Of The CAT As It Applies To Sales Of Groceries, Jones Day State Tax Return, reprinted in the Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 3, December 2008, 2008
• Legal Aid Board Member honored for pro bono service, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, poetic justice, vol. 5 issue 3, 2008
• Ohio Uniform Partnership Act, 2008
• Note, Nonprofit Commercialization Under Bayh-Dole and the Academic Anticommons. 58 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1343, 2008
• Ohio: Goodwill Repairs Case Good For Auto Manufacturers, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2008
• Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp.: The US Supreme Court Reins in the Extraterritorial Effects of US Patent Law, reprinted in IP Litigator, 2008
• Ohio's New Residency Requirements for Individual Income Tax Purposes, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2008
• Supreme Court of Ohio Bars Public Policy Claims by Employees Discharged While Receiving Workers' Compensation, 2008
• Ohio Commercial Activity Tax Passes First Constitutional Hurdle, Corporate Business Taxation Monthly, 2007
• Important Changes to Ohio and Florida Trust Laws, 2007
• Ohio Opens the Door for Majority Voting in Director Elections, 2007
• Ohio Commercial Activity Tax Passes First Constitutional Hurdle, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2007
• Beware of the Unwritten Rule: Ohio Property Taxes, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2007
• Caterpillar sues United Auto Workers in response to union's role in retiree lawsuits - Labor News, CCH Incorporated, 2007
• A Critique of ALI's Proposal to Bar Expert Testimony to a 'Reasonable Degree of Professional Certainty', Medical Malpractice Litigation Reporter (Volume 2, Issue 25), also published in Expert & Scientific Evidence Litigation Reporter (Volume 4, Issue 6), 2007
• Has Dealing in Consumer Transactions Become Riskier in Ohio?, 2007
• Couch Potatoes Commiserate Remotely: Recent Ohio Supreme Court Decision Increases The Cost Of Cable TV Service With Tax, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2007
• New Ohio Statutes Regarding the Minimum-Wage Amendment and Insurance Parity for Mental Illnesses, 2007
• Update On Ohio Commercial Activity Tax: Final Rules and Revised Information Releases, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2007
• Ohio Voters Approve Smoking Ban and an Increase in Minimum Wage, 2006
• Amendments to Ohio's Business Entity Statutes Effective in October 2006, 2006
• Ohio Supreme Court Finds That Canned Computer Software Is Taxable Tangible Personal Property Used In Business, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2006
• Reprocessing Single-Use Medical Devices: The State of the Debate, Update Magazine, 2006, Issue 3 (FDLI), 2006
• Update On Ohio Information Releases Regarding Commercial Activities Tax, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2006
• Ohio Enacts Security Breach Notification Law, 2006
• Ohio Franchise Tax Annual Accounting Period: What A Difference Three Days Make (A Little More Than $2.4 Million), 2006
• Ohio Department Of Taxation Continues To Update And Issue Ohio Commercial Activity Tax Information Releases And Draft Rules, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2006
• U.S. Leniency, PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook, 2005/06 Volume2, 2005
• A Critique Of The Nexus Standard For Ohio's New Commercial Activity Tax, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Ohio Department Of Taxation Issues Proposed Rule Regarding The Definition Of "Foreign Corporation" Under The New Commercial Activity Tax, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Pending Ohio Exempt-Facility Certificates? Be Sure To File Your Final Assessment Request Before The Assessment Becomes Final By Operation Of Law, 2005
• UPDATE: Ohio's New CAT Tax And Tax Amnesty, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Contesting Ohio's True Value Procedures; Use Of Quasi-Appraisal Evidence Rejected, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Out with the Old and In with the New: Ohio Abandons its Corporate Franchise Tax and Enacts a Commercial Activities Tax, 2005
• Stuart's Law of Retroaction No Good in Ohio, State Tax Return, Vol. 12, No. 6, 2005
• Supreme Court Of Ohio Reaffirms, For The Third Time, That "Employment Services" Are Not Exempt Sales For Resale, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Stuart's Law Of Retroaction No Good In Ohio, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Ohio's Revised Discretionary Penalty Worksheet: In Search Of Consistent Application, 2005
• Ohio Board Of Tax Appeals Takes Another Look At Sales And Use Tax Exemption For Packaging Equipment, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Ohio Department Of Taxation Revises Guidelines Regarding The Issuance Of Responsible Party Assessments For Direct Pay Permit Holders, 2005
• Ohio Valuation Of Personal Property In A Lump-Sum Transaction Involving A Complete Business, Division, Or Entire Plant, Jones Day State Tax Return, 2005
• Annual Survey of Judicial Developments Pertaining to Mergers & Acquisitions by ABA Subcommittee on Recent Judicial Developments, Negotiated Acquisitions Committee, The Business Lawyer, 2005
• Is Ohio missing a multidistrict litigation statute? Ohio Lawyer, 2004
• Employers Face More Challenges from the Ohio Supreme Court: Coolidge v. Riverdale Local School Dist., 2004
• Influences of thermal acclimation and acute temperature change on the motility of epithelial wound-healing cells (keratocytes) of tropical, temperate and Antarctic fish, coauthor, J. Exp. Biol. 2003; 206(24):4539-51, 2003
• Base compositions of genes encoding alpha-actin and lactate dehydrogenase-A from differently adapted vertebrates show no temperature-adaptive variation in G + C content. Mol, coauthor, Biol. Evol. 2003;20(1):105-10, 2003
• Ohio Has a New Knife to Cut Out Spam, 2003
• What the General Assembly Giveth, Ohio's Supreme Court Quickly Takes Away, 2003
• What's the Only Asset Worth? Tech companies are tricky to assess, The M&A Journal, Vol. 2, No. 9, 2002
• Reflections on the New Ohio Law on Taxation of Trusts, 2002
• Practicing Telemedicine and Ohio's New Telemedicine Licensure Law, 2001
• The Reason For The Patent Wars: The Use of Intellectual Property Law To Guard Profits from Innovation, 2000
• Technology Management and Legal Rights: Intellectual Property as a Tool of Competitive Strategy, Executive Management of Technology Working Paper No. 94-02, Case Western Reserve University, 2000
• To Disclose or Not to Disclose: If That Is the Question What Is the Answer? coauthor, 7 J. of Financial Crime 308, 2000
• Hightech Crimes and the American Economic Machine, International Review of Law Computers & Technology, Volume 13, No. 1, page 7, 1999
• Crime and Technology: New Rules for a New World, Information & Communications Technology Law, June 1998, Vol. 7, No. 2, P. 145-157, reprinted in Criminal Law Bulletin, 1998
• Hightech Crimes and The American Economic Machine: Enforcement Aspect of the Economic Espionage Act, American Society of Criminology, 1998
• Liability of On-line Service Providers, Ohio State University Symposium, 1997
• Crime and Technology: New rules for a New World, American Society of Criminology, 1997
• Industry - Wide Patent Enforcement, Intellectual Property Owners Association, 1997
• Patents - An All-Purpose Policy Tool, co-editor, The New York Times, Sunday, 1993
• Comment, Patent Law Reform Via the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982: The Transformation of Patentability Jurisprudence, 17 Akron L. Rev. 453 (1984), reprinted in _IDEA_ 1985, 1985

Representative Cases

• A. Schulman defends against proxy solicitation by Barington Capital
• A. Schulman maintains patent portfolio directed to polymer coatings , (2005)
• A. Schulman, Inc. executes merger agreement with ICO for $191.4 million , (2010)
• A.U.L. Corp. obtains denial of motion for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction
• ABB acquires Kuhlman Electric from The Carlyle Group , (2009)
• ABB defends against Plutus group patents on energy management and proposals , (2009)
• ABB fends off patent infringement claims related to data pooling , (2012)
• ABB, Maersk, Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean™ fend off patent infringement action by Condatis , (2012)
• Abbott invests in AuraSense Therapeutics , (2012)
• Abbott Labs and McNeiLab prevail in 6th Circuit action alleging injuries from in utero exposure to pregnancy drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) , (2010)
• Abbott Labs and McNeiLab successfully defend against Ohio claims alleging injuries from in utero exposure to pregnancy drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) , (2010)
• Abbott Labs pursues patent infringement action against Mylan pursuant to Hatch-Waxman Act , (2009)
• ABM acquires Five Star Parking, Network Parking, and System Parking from L&R Group of Companies , (2010)
• ABM Janitorial Services acquires Diversco , (2010)
• ACI Worldwide to acquire S1 for $520 million , (2011)
• Acme-Cleveland Corp defends against $201 million unsolicited tender offer by Danaher Corp , (2009)
• Acor obtains dismissal in wrongful termination, discrimination and violation of FMLA action
• Acor successfully appeals decision of the Unemployment Compensation Review Commission
• Acordia defends five consolidated class actions alleging broker negligence due to financially insolvent malpractice insurers , (2009)
• AcroMed Corporation defends against thousands of orthopedic bone screw product liability cases , (2009)
• Actuarial firm resolves complex actuarial malpractice claim , (2009)
• ADC Telecommunications settles dispute over misappropriated trade secrets , (2009)
• ADP convinces court to dismiss claim for wrongful discharge
• Advance America defends against wage and hour lawsuit brought by former employee
• AEP completes financing of Desert Sky wind power facility , (2009)
• AEP establishes master outsourcing agreement with Alliance Data Systems
• Aerojet-General negotiates environmental due diligence and indemnification issues for sale of defense-related business , (2009)
• Aeroquip-Vickers completes sale to Eaton , (2010)
• Affymetrix wins dismissal of patent infringement claims , (2009)
• AHERF creditors' committee pursues claims against certain officers and trustees of health care system , (2009)
• AHERF Creditors' Committee successfully appeals award of summary judgment in favor of auditor and limits availability of in pari delicto defense in audit-failure cases , (2011)
• Air Products defeats Honeywell's attempt to block its acquisition of a competitor , (2009)
• Albertson's seeks advice on fiduciary issues , (2009)
• Albertson's seeks advice on multiemployer pension plan funding , (2009)
• Albertson's acquired by consortium of investors for $17.4 billion , (2009)
• Albertson's acquires New Bristol Farms
• Albertson's acquires Shaw's Supermarkets
• Albertson's and its directors defend shareholder action
• Albertson's completes public offering of $1.15 billion of HITS Units
• Alcan Aluminum Corp forms joint venture with Teksid S.p.A
• Alcan Aluminum Corporation defends against joint venture dispute , (2009)
• Alcan prevails in antitrust litigation alleging restraint of Russian aluminum imports , (2009)
• Alcatel-Lucent sells Genesys business to Permira for US$1.5 billion , (2011)
• Alderwoods acquires numerous funeral home companies and completes reorganization
• Alderwoods adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Alderwoods defeats class certification motions in antitrust actions by consumers and casket distributors , (2009)
• Alderwoods defends against lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and hostile work environment brought by former employee , (2009)
• Alderwoods favorably settles arbitration for breach of non-compete provision , (2009)
• Alderwoods Group acquired by Service Corporation International for $1.2 billion , (2009)
• Alderwoods Group favorably settles infinity symbol trademark infringement suit prior to trial
• Allegheny Health, nation's largest nonprofit healthcare company, files chapter 11 cases , (2009)
• Allen Telecom acquired by Andrew Corp.
• Allen Telecom completes a public offering of $50 million of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock
• Alliant Techsystems adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Alltel defends against patent infringement claims by EMSAT for E911 service
• Ambac Assurance closes facility for energy compression services company
• Ambulatory surgery center sold by physician group
• American Board of Emergency Medicine wins appeal of antitrust class action challenging the board's eligibility criteria , (2009)
• American Greetings acquires Gibson Greetings , (2009)
• American Greetings acquires Papyrus trademark and wholesale business , (2009)
• American Greetings buys Recycled Paper Greetings for $152.4 million , (2010)
• American Greetings defends against breach of contract lawsuit resulting from debt securities acquisition , (2010)
• American Greetings establishes patent portfolio for consumer products , (2009)
• American Greetings issues $225 million aggregate principal amount of 7.375% Senior Notes in public offering
• American Greetings prevails in $50 million breach of contract action , (2009)
• American Greetings prosecutes patent litigation against Hallmark in Australia computer operated card kiosks
• American Greetings pursues London patent impeachment proceeding relating to computer operated card kiosks
• American Kidney Stone Management defends breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action brought against them by former LLC members , (2009)
• Amiad USA settles patent infringement action involving pressure transducers
• Ampex creditors' committee improves creditors' recoveries , (2009)
• AMSCO International brings successful patent infringement suit against Surgikos relating to hydrogen peroxide sterilization methods
• AMSCO successfully opposes European patent application , (2009)
• Amway Asia Pacific acquires the company's outstanding publicly held stock and ADRs by its principal shareholders
• Anne Owings Ford chairs Cleveland Bar Association task force reviewing Cleveland Homeless Legal Assistance Programs , (2007)
• ANZ finances landfill gas power facilities project , (2009)
• AOL obtains U.S., EU antitrust clearance for Netscape and Sun Microsystems transactions , (2009)
• Apple successfully defends against modem technology patent infringement charges
• Apple successfully defends against patent infringement action involving internet music downloading
• Arbor Partners forms venture capital fund , (2009)
• Arbor Partners-led investment group invests in BlueSpring Software
• Arch Wireless prevails in putative class action relating to national paging system outage , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires A.T. Reynolds and Sons, Inc.
• Arctic Glacier acquires Bismack Huron Ice , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Brandywine Ice
• Arctic Glacier acquires California Ice for $190 million , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Geske's Ice Co. , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Ice Castles
• Arctic Glacier acquires International Ice
• Arctic Glacier acquires issued and outstanding capital stock of R&K Trucking
• Arctic Glacier acquires Knowlton Enterprises
• Arctic Glacier acquires Koldkist Pacific Cold Storage, and K, H & P , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Losquadro Ice Company , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Michigan Pure Ice , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Northern Pure Ice Co , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires operations of Kar Ice , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires R&T Enterprises, Inc. and R&T Partnership , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Ron's Ice , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Southeastern Michigan Ice Services , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier acquires Springdale Ice Company and Diamond Ice Cube Company
• Arctic Glacier acquires Stelley’s Pure Ice
• Arctic Glacier acquires Taylor Ice Service
• Arctic Glacier acquires Union Ice
• Arctic Glacier acquires Winkler Lucas Ice and Fuel d.b.a. Mid-Michigan Ice Co
• Arctic Glacier acquires Wonderland Ice , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier defends federal antitrust class action litigation involving packaged ice industry , (2009)
• Arctic Glacier seeks advice from Jones Day with regard to the real estate aspects of multiple transactions , (2009)
• Areva SA and Électricité de France sell Cogema Mining and Malapai Resources subsidiaries , (2010)
• Argo-Tech completes $250 million of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering , (2009)
• Argo-Tech Corp sells parent company, AT Holdings, for $173 million , (2009)
• Arrow International negotiates royalty-free license in patent infringement settlement with Stuart Entertainment over bingo paper
• Arter & Hadden retains Jones Day in its involuntary chapter 7 bankruptcy , (2009)
• Arthur Gallagher prevails in covenant not to compete and breach of fiduciary duty suit against former employees
• Ascension Health defends antitrust class action lawsuits related to nurse compensation , (2009)
• Ascension Health wins dismissals in class actions alleging violations of consumer protection laws by overcharging uninsured patients , (2009)
• Ashland Chemical negotiates environmental settlements with Ohio EPA and owners of chemical storage and distribution facility , (2009)
• Ashland defends claims by Ohio EPA seeking remediation of former petroleum refinery site
• Ashland successfully defends RCRA citizen suit and Superfund claims by Ohio municipality
• Associate Jon Feczko wins Sixth Circuit appeal on behalf of prisoner in sentencing guidelines case
• Associated Estates purchases The Ashborough, multi-family apartment complex in Ashburn, Virginia
• AT&T Broadband achieves nationwide settlement of class actions claiming that cable service late fees violated consumer fraud statutes
• Atecs Mannesmann sells Dematic postal automation business to Northrop Grumman
• Athersys and Pfizer join forces to use stem cells to treat IBD , (2010)
• Athersys completes $65 million private offering of Common Stock and Warrants in connection with reverse merger , (2009)
• Athersys completes registered direct offering of Common Stock
• Athersys forms strategic alliance with 3-D Pharma over certain drug targets , (2009)
• Athersys issues $10 million of Common Stock in a private placement , (2009)
• Athersys issues $16.2 million of Common Stock in a private placement , (2009)
• Athersys issues $47.5 million of Class F Convertible Preferred stock in a private placement , (2009)
• Athersys issues $5 million of Common Stock in a private placement , (2009)
• Athersys merges with MCL and acquires stem cell technology , (2009)
• Athersys obtains credit facility , (2009)
• Atlas and GarMark bid for Schwab Industries assets
• Atlas Energy announces $1.7 billion Marcellus Shale joint venture with Reliance Industries Limited , (2010)
• Atlas Energy merges with Atlas America , (2009)
• Atlas Pipeline Holdings acquires investment management business and certain producing oil and gas assets from Atlas Energy for $250 million
• Atlas Pipeline Partners forms Marcellus Shale Pipeline joint venture with Williams Companies , (2009)
• Atlas Pipeline Partners sells 49% stake in Laurel Mountain Midstream joint venture to Atlas Energy for $403 million , (2010)
• Atlas Pipeline Partners sells Elk City System for $682 million to Enbridge Energy Partners , (2010)
• Atlas Pipeline Partners sells NOARK gas transmission system for $300 million , (2009)
• Atlas Resource Partners agrees to acquire 277 bcfe of proved reserves in Barnett Shale from Carrizo Oil & Gas , (2012)
• Attachmate acquires Novell for $2.2 billion , (2010)
• Automotive parts supplier refinances its senior and subordinated debt
• Avado Brands is reorganized under chapter 11 , (2009)
• Avondale Industries wins right to amend severance pay plan
• Avtron Holdings and its subsidiaries obtain financing , (2012)
• Avtron Holdings completes sale of portfolio company Avtron Loadbank to Emerson Electric , (2012)
• Avtron LoadBank acquires N.J. Froment & Co.
• Axcelis Technologies sells interest in joint venture SEN Corporation to Sumitomo Heavy Industries , (2009)
• Axcelis Technologies settles patent infringement and trade secrets misappropriation dispute with SEN Corporation
• Axsys acquires Diversified Optical
• Axsys Technologies acquires Cineflex , (2009)
• Axsys Technologies completes public offering of $62.1 million of Common Stock
• Axsys Technologies defeats motion in shareholder class action to enjoin merger with General Dynamics , (2009)
• Axsys Technologies is acquired by General Dynamics , (2009)
• Ayorinde and Shade resolve trade secret dispute after winning motion to dismiss
• B&W Modular Nuclear Energy affiliate of The Babcock & Wilcox Company formed to deploy a scalable US-manufactured, Generation III++, passively safe Advanced Light Water Reactor , (2009)
• Back Yard Burgers acquires sale leaseback financing involving ten restaurants
• Banc One finances Orion Foods acquisition
• Banc One invests in Workstream
• Bank of America arranges financing for H Mart , (2011)
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch leads financing for Wright Express , (2011)
• Bank One and JPMorgan Chase provide facility for Heads & Threads acquisition , (2009)
• Bank One provides financing for acquisition of Tube City
• Bank One provides financing for Marco Wood acquisition
• Bank represented in subprime mortgage and accounting investigation , (2010)
• Baptist Memorial Health Care defends nurse compensation antitrust class action , (2009)
• Baptist Memorial prevails in Sixth Circuit appeal of denial of motion to intervene in antitrust suit , (2011)
• Bar/Bri favorably settles suit over trade name and secrets prior to trial
• Bayer acquires paper chemicals business of Cytec Industries
• Bayer acquires remaining 50% interest in Gustafson LLC
• Bayer AG forms strategic alliance with Schering-Plough , (2009)
• Bayer AG sells Everest
• Bayer AG sells Rhein Chemie Rheinau
• Bayer CropScience acquires Stoneville Pedigreed Seed for $310 million from Monsanto , (2009)
• Bayer CropScience acquires U.S. agricultural biotech company Athenix for $400 million , (2009)
• Bayer defends antitrust litigation involving sales of BR and SBR synthetic rubber products , (2009)
• Bayer defends antitrust litigation involving sales of CR synthetic rubber products , (2009)
• Bayer defends antitrust litigation involving sales of EPDM synthetic rubber products , (2009)
• Bayer defends urethane and urethane chemicals antitrust litigation , (2009)
• Bayer resolves patent infringement dispute involving electrochemical diabetes test device after jury trial , (2009)
• Bayer wins summary judgment against pest control operators antitrust class action , (2009)
• Bearings manufacturer obtains $500 million credit facility
• BellSouth Intellectual Property Corp. builds global patent portfolio for telecommunications technology
• BenefitMall completes management buyout and related recapitalization , (2009)
• BenefitMall completes sale to Austin Ventures and merger with CompuPay , (2012)
• Bethesda Research Lab prevails in reduction in force action , (2009)
• BIC develops global patent portfolio for razors, stationery devices, lighters and correction tape devices , (2009)
• Black Canyon Capital acquires certain assets of Houston Dental Services and Houston Dentistry
• Blackstone Group appointed valuation expert in WCI Steel bankruptcy , (2009)
• Blockbuster wins dismissal of putative class action alleging violations of Ohio consumer protection laws relating to gift cards
• Blue Chip Venture and Primus Venture invest in Bluespring Software , (2009)
• Blue Chip Venture and Primus Venture invest in NextMED Systems , (2009)
• Blue Chip Venture invests in IXI Corporation
• Blue Chip Venture invests in NineSigma , (2009)
• Blue Chip Venture invests in Series B round of Beliefnet
• Blue Chip Venture invests in Series C round of Beliefnet
• Blue Chip Venture invests in Third Screen Media
• Blue Point Capital acquires Addressing Services Company
• Blue Point Capital acquires Area Wide Protective and LNA Auto , (2009)
• Blue Point Capital acquires Floral Plant Growers , (2009)
• Blue Point Capital acquires MHF Logistical Solutions
• Blue Point Capital acquires The Hygenic Corporation , (2009)
• Blue Point Capital portfolio company acquires U.S. Traffic Technologies, Inc.
• Blue Point Capital sells controlling interest in TREK Diagnostic Systems , (2009)
• Blue Point Capital sells Hygenic Holdings , (2009)
• Blue Point Capital sells MHF Holding Company
• Blue Point Capital sells Packers Holdings to Harvest Partners
• Blue Point Capital successfully negotiates comprehensive environmental indemnification for sale of portfolio company
• Blue Point portfolio company sells Floral Plant Growers to Blue Ridge Growers
• Blue Spark raises $5 million in Series B round , (2009)
• Boehringer Ingelheim defends antitrust litigation involving Mirapex® patents , (2010)
• BofA Merrill Lynch completes $72.5 million public offering of Common Stock by Superior Well Services , (2009)
• Bon Secours and JDA Health Systems negotiate provider agreement , (2009)
• Bon Secours and Marsh USA negotiate service provider agreement , (2009)
• Bon Secours Health System advised on software licensing and purchase
• Bon Secours Holy Family Health System merges with Altoona Hospital , (2009)
• Bon Secours negotiates enterprisewide agreement with GE Medical Systems Information Technologies , (2009)
• Bon Secours negotiates professional services agreements , (2009)
• Bon Secours negotiates software licenses and other agreements , (2009)
• Bon Secours sells hospitals in Fla. and Va. , (2009)
• Bon Secours sells non-acute care facilities in Florida , (2009)
• Boscov's Department Stores completes successful going concern sale , (2009)
• Boykin Lodging resolves shareholder action , (2009)
• BP America Production sells Amoco Thailand Petroleum to Unocal Thailand
• Bradley Company prevails in breach of contract counterclaim in copyright and trademark infringement case involving health club management software
• Brantley Capital resolves securities class action , (2009)
• Brasseler defends IP infringement and unfair competition claims by Medtronic involving powered surgical tools , (2011)
• BRAVO! Development sells business , (2009)
• Bridgestone acquires Bandag for $1 billion , (2009)
• Bridgestone negotiates Ohio EPA approval of closure plan for former synthetic rubber pilot plant storage area
• Bridgestone negotiates with the USWA and prepares a contingency plan
• Bridgestone nullifies suit on patent involving silica for tire compositions
• Bridgestone prevails in major environmental coverage litigation recovering in excess of $100 million , (2009)
• Bridgestone pursues claims against insurers for coverage related to August 2000 voluntary tire recall , (2009)
• Bridgestone reaches settlement after lengthy dispute involving misappropriation of trade secrets
• Bridgestone seeks advice regarding all facets of the design and administration of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, deferred compensation plans and executive compensation arrangements , (2010)
• Bridgestone settles retiree medical benefits litigation brought by USWA
• Bridgestone successfully defends against patent infringement and breach of contract charges brought by Polymer Industrial Products , (2009)
• Bridgestone successfully defends against patent infringement claims brought by Seiberling
• Bridgestone/Firestone defends against ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness tire product liability class actions , (2009)
• Bridgestone/Firestone defends against sexual harassment and sexual discrimination lawsuit
• Bridgestone/Firestone establishes patent portfolio for silica filler in rubber tires , (2009)
• Bridgestone/Firestone negotiates collective bargaining and strike activity with union
• Bridgestone/Firestone negotiates final settlement with USWA and dismisses unfair labor practice charges , (2009)
• Bridgestone/Firestone obtains affirmance in ERISA class action
• Bridgestone/Firestone prosecutes multimillion dollar suit against consultant after business process re-engineering project fails , (2009)
• Bridgestone/Firestone significantly reduces environmental cleanup costs for Industrial Excess Landfill Superfund site
• Bridgestone/Firestone successfully defends against sexual harassment and sexual discrimination lawsuit
• Bridgestone/Firestone successfully recovered in confidential arbitration $10 million in policy limits for claim arising under blanket crime policy , (2009)
• Brief Advice and Referral Clinic and the Law Firm Clinic is staffed on monthly basis by local firms , (2009)
• Britax Group completes a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $142 million of Senior Notes , (2009)
• Britax International acquires Bellingham , (2009)
• Brockway Moran acquires MW Industries , (2010)
• Brockway Moran acquires Pacific Crane
• Brockway Moran acquires Turning Technologies from Talisman Capital , (2010)
• Brockway Moran portfolio company acquires JOBY
• Brockway Moran sells portfolio company MWI Holdings to affiliate of Genstar Capital , (2011)
• Broker-dealer represented in insider trading investigation , (2010)
• Broker-dealer represented in SEC and DOJ stock manipulation investigations , (2010)
• Brown & Williamson obtains dismissal with prejudice following grant of bifurcated trial on limitations defense , (2009)
• Brown Gibbons Lang wins dismissal of fraud claims in bankruptcy proceeding , (2009)
• Brush acquires Barr Associates
• Brush completes public offering of $36 million of Common Stock , (2009)
• Brush Engineered Materials adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Brush Resources obtains favorable determination of applicability of Bevill exclusion to waste streams
• Brush Resources obtains first Clean Air Act Title V permit issued in Utah
• Brush Wellman complies with various environmental regulations concerning beryllium manufacturing
• Brush Wellman defends CERCLA claims at various sites
• Brush Wellman defends various environmental enforcement actions and citizen suits
• Brush Wellman dismissal affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• Brush Wellman establishes compliance with air pollution control regulations
• Brush Wellman establishes compliance with RCRA requirements , (2009)
• Brush Wellman establishes compliance with water pollution control regulations
• Brush Wellman finds innovative resolution for renewing NPDES permit with Pennsylvania environmental agency
• Brush Wellman forms Brush Engineered Materials through reorganization
• Brush Wellman obtains affirmance of summary judgment by Third Circuit in beryllium exposure case , (2010)
• Brush Wellman obtains dismissal of claims in beryllium exposure putative class action
• Brush Wellman obtains Mississippi Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit rulings dismissing putative class action alleging exposure to beryllium , (2009)
• Brush Wellman obtains modification to RCRA hazardous waste permit
• Brush Wellman obtains summary judgment in contract dispute over proposed sale of office and manufacturing complex , (2009)
• Brush Wellman prevails on appeal in employment contract case
• Brush Wellman secures de minimis settlement for Berks Landfill Superfund site
• Brush Wellman seeks advice on ERISA issues in disability litigation and settlement , (2009)
• Brush Wellman submits comments regarding U.S. EPA rulemaking on drinking water standards for beryllium
• Brush Wellman succeeds in coverage litigation against its insurers , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins affirmance of Daubert exclusion order and summary judgment on occupational exposure to beryllium claims , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins complete defense verdict in beryllium exposure action by workers at Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins dismissal of state and federal claims involving employee health benefits , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins reversal of order establishing "medical monitoring class" in case of first impression in Ohio , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins summary judgment on claims relating to workplace exposure to beryllium by employees at an Arizona facility , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins summary judgment on contract claims for indemnification arising from product liability actions , (2009)
• Brush Wellman wins summary judgment on intentional tort claim relating to workplace exposure to beryllium , (2009)
• Bunge parlays collaborative research development agreement into license for soybeans , (2009)
• Burlington Industries acquired by WL Ross through bankruptcy buyout for $615 million , (2009)
• Burlington Industries, nation's oldest textile manufacturer, files for bankruptcy , (2009)
• Cablevision Systems Corporation receives successful verdict in TW, Inc. adversary proceeding
• Cabot successfully defends carbon black antitrust litigation , (2009)
• Cabot to divest its Supermetals business for $400 million , (2011)
• Caliber System merges with Federal Express for $2.4 billion , (2009)
• Cameron Family Glass Packaging engages in mediation with EPC Contractor over construction and design defects at new wine glass bottle manufacturing plant , (2010)
• Campbell Hausfeld launches patent infringement suit against DeVilbiss Air Power Co. over air compressors
• Cardinal Health defends FTC challenge to proposed Bergen Brunswig acquisition , (2009)
• Cardinal Health obtains judgment on the pleadings in case involving industrial oven explosion , (2009)
• Cardinal Health resolves securities class action, ERISA class action and shareholder derivative actions , (2009)
• Cardinal Industries files for chapter 11 , (2009)
• Carreras, Kestner & Co. acquire Hilite Industries , (2009)
• Carroll Healthcare prevails in patent infringement suit , (2009)
• Case Western Reserve University establishes patent portfolio for neurostimulation techniques and devices for chronic pain treatment , (2009)
• Catholic Diocese of Cleveland defends against litigation involving claims of sexual abuse of minors
• Catholic Healthcare Partners in putative class action litigation , (2009)
• Catholic Healthcare Partners wins dismissal of class action relating to billing and collections practices
• Catholic Healthcare reaches settlement in wage and hour lawsuit in Northern District of Ohio
• Cavaliers purchase land and plan construction for new practice facility
• Cavaliers to construct new practice facility
• Cavaliers to renovate administrative offices at Quicken Loans Arena
• CBay Systems acquires Certus accounts receivable services division , (2009)
• Center for Claims Resolution members appeal from shortfall in payments due under $120 million asbestos settlement , (2009)
• Centerior Energy obtains injunctive relief and $12 million judgment against investment advisor
• CenterPoint obtains dismissal of consumer class action filed against several gas utilities challenging the Low Income Customer Reconnection Policy , (2009)
• CenterPoint secures regulatory approval for spinoff of Reliant Resources
• Century Aluminum prevails in arbitration of violation of labor agreement
• Ceramic parts manufacturer avoids action by U.S. Department of Commerce regarding compliance with export laws , (2009)
• Chemical manufacturer defends federal grand jury and parallel state and administrative investigations , (2009)
• ChemMasters develops patent portfolio for polymer compositions for making cement
• Chem-Trend develops privacy compliance program for employees
• Chem-Trend seeks advice on qualified and nonqualified retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Chemtura plan confirmed and bondholders take majority equity stake in reorganized company , (2010)
• Chevron and GM defend against class action arising from business activities during South Africa's apartheid regime , (2009)
• Chevron and Unocal successfully resolve antitrust class actions regarding reformulated gasoline , (2009)
• Chevron Corporation obtains judgment against customer in breach of contract case and successfully defends against counterclaims , (2009)
• Chevron obtains injunctive relief against infringers
• Chi Mei defends against patent infringement allegations relating to LCD flat panel technology , (2009)
• Chi Mei defends against patent infringement suit involving its LCD manufacturing technology , (2009)
• China Investors purchases stock of China Centric Associates , (2009)
• Chrysler sold to Fiat-led "New Chrysler" after historic court proceedings , (2009)
• Cintas subsidiary issues $250 million of 2.85% Senior Notes and $250 million of 4.30% Senior Notes
• CIPSCO merges with Union Electric, creating Ameren Corporation , (2009)
• CIT Group provides DIP financing for Sweet Factory , (2009)
• CIT Group recovers debt from Drug Emporium , (2009)
• Civil rights suit plaintiff pays Jones Day attorneys' fees in pro bono representation of community defendants
• Clairvue Capital forms $250 million real estate fund , (2010)
• Clairvue Capital Partners I invests in preferred equity of Phillips Edison Shopping Center REIT, Inc. , (2011)
• Clearlight Cream sells Medicia Corporation , (2009)
• Cleveland Bar Association obtains injunction against marketing "living trusts" to senior citizens and receives award of largest civil penalty in the country for unauthorized practice of law , (2009)
• Cleveland Browns NFL team defends against trademark infringement case
• Cleveland Browns resolves class action and other suits seeking to prevent team's relocation
• Cleveland Cavaliers acquired by investor group for $375 million , (2009)
• Cleveland Clinic acquires Medina General Hospital , (2010)
• Cleveland Clinic and other not-for-profit hospital systems defend against class action litigation , (2009)
• Cleveland Clinic forms Lou Ruvo brain center in Las Vegas , (2009)
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation defends against breach of contract and unfair trade practice claims , (2009)
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation receives financing for ten story heart hospital
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation restructures systemwide debt
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation successfully prosecutes appeal of largest medical malpractice verdict in Ohio , (2009)
• Cleveland FoodBank to build new food distribution center
• Cleveland Gas Systems acquires Enhanced Process Technology
• Cleveland housing cooperative receives half in negotiating contracts
• Cleveland, Ohio nonprofit organization is instrumental in providing free medical healthcare to thousands of uninsured and underinsured individuals , (2009)
• Cleveland-Cliffs acquires interest in Empire Mine
• Cleveland-Cliffs acquires interest in Hibbing Taconite
• Cleveland-Cliffs acquires interest in International Steel Group
• Cleveland-Cliffs acquires interest in Tilden Mining
• Cleveland-Cliffs acquires minority partner's interest in United Taconite
• Cleveland-Cliffs adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Cleveland-Cliffs advised in Stelco matter
• Cleveland-Cliffs affiliate creates 2,300-acre wetland preserve in Marquette County, Michigan
• Cleveland-Cliffs completes $172 million of Redeemable Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock in a Rule 144A offering
• Cleveland-Cliffs defends proxy solicitation by David F. Bolger
• Cleveland-Cliffs defends proxy solicitation by Tiger Management
• Cleveland-Cliffs establishes multifacility computing services agreement with Mincom Managed Services
• Cleveland-Cliffs forms joint venture to develop new ironmaking technology , (2009)
• Cleveland-Cliffs forms joint venture with Laiwu Steel
• Cleveland-Cliffs forms strategic alliance with Kobe Steel , (2009)
• Cleveland-Cliffs issues $325 million of Notes in private placement , (2009)
• Cleveland-Cliffs sells Circored Hot Briquette Iron Facility
• Cleveland's economic revitalization project forms a consortium of community development corporations
• Client illegally locked out of apartment wins in Cleveland's Landlord-Tenant Court , (2009)
• Client successfully defended in auto accident case , (2004)
• Cliffs and Associates sued for construction delays , (2009)
• Cliffs and Associates work on construction and supply for Trinidad project
• Cliffs Natural Resources acquires Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines for CAD$4.9 billion , (2011)
• Cliffs Natural Resources completes $362 million public offering of Common Stock , (2009)
• Cliffs Natural Resources defeats motion for temporary restraining order , (2009)
• Cliffs Natural Resources finances acquisition of Alpha Natural Resources
• Cliffs Natural Resources issues $400 million of Senior Notes in public offering , (2010)
• Cliffs Natural Resources issues $700 million of 4.875% Senior Notes and additional $300 million aggregate principal amount of their outstanding 6.25% Senior Notes in public offering , (2011)
• Cliffs Natural Resources issues $886.3 million of Common Stock in public offering
• Cliffs Natural Resources proposes to acquire Alpha Natural Resources for $10 billion , (2009)
• Cliffs Natural Resources resolves dispute over "take or pay" provision of 2006 requirements contract , (2009)
• Cliffs Natural Resources settles arbitration and litigation with Essar Steel Algoma , (2011)
• Cliffs Natural Resources settles arbitrations and litigation with ArcelorMittal , (2011)
• Cliffs Natural Resources wins arbitral award in dispute over iron ore purchase amount , (2009)
• Cliffs Natural Resources wins arbitral award in dispute with steelmaking company about price reopener provision , (2010)
• Cliffs Natural Resources wins baseball arbitration against Canadian steel maker , (2011)
• Cliffs Natural Resources wins Eighth Circuit appeal in dispute concerning post-termination duties under reclamation-services agreement , (2010)
• Cliffs successfully defends against litigation involving Trinidad processing plant sale , (2009)
• Coal company invests in GreatPoint Energy
• Cole National adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Cole National advised on anti-kickback policies
• Cole National completes $150 million of Senior Subordinated Notes in a Rule 144A and Rule S offering
• Cole National negotiates credit facility for subsidiaries
• Cole National seeks advice on retirement and welfare benefits issues , (2009)
• Cole National sells and leases back Twinsburg, Ohio, office building
• Cole National's acquisition by Luxottica receives FTC antitrust clearance , (2009)
• Colt's defends public nuisance lawsuit filed by the City of Cleveland , (2009)
• Colt's Manufacturing settles trademark infringement action prior to appeal , (2009)
• Columbus Dispatch sells Sports, Vacation & Boat Show to Hart Productions
• Com Dev International maintains patent portfolio for satellite technologies , (2009)
• Community Behavioral Healthcare completes reorganization and sale , (2009)
• Community Choice Financial completes private placement of Senior Secured Notes and its related acquisition of CheckSmart Financial, CCCS Corporate Holdings and its subsidiaries , (2011)
• Community Memorial Health System forms co-management company with physicians
• ComparisonMarket places shares with Berkley and StarVest , (2009)
• ComparisonMarket places shares with StarVest , (2009)
• ComparisonMarket.com defends against patent infringement claim regarding sales proposals
• ComparisonMarket.com issues secured convertible subordinated promissory notes in a private placement , (2009)
• ComparisonMarket.com negotiates software license agreements with ISPs
• ComparisonMarket.com obtains credit line
• CompuServe defends against breach of contract class action arising out of membership registration process , (2009)
• Compuserve defends against patent infringement charges related to online sales
• CompuServe defends against patent infringement suit relating to online and Internet commerce
• CompuServe defends against patent infringement suit relating to storage and retrieval of digital sound files , (2009)
• ConAgra announces $900 million tender offer for notes , (2009)
• ConAgra completes $1 billion public offering of senior notes , (2009)
• ConAgra Foods issues $500 million in Notes in an exchange offer
• Connell Limited Partnership and Wabash Alloys defend against intentional tort case
• Consolidated Foundries acquires assets of Smithford Products
• Consolidated Foundries Holdings acquires assets of Hitchcock Industries and Watkins Pattern Company , (2009)
• Consolidated Land Co. wins appeal invalidating permit to build construction debris landfill above underground coal reserves
• Consolidated Natural Gas obtains regulatory approval for $8.3 billion acquisition by Dominion Resources
• Consumer products company conducts internal investigation , (2009)
• Consumer products manufacturer defends criminal immigration law investigation , (2009)
• Consumer products manufacturer defends criminal tax law investigation , (2009)
• Consumer products manufacturer defends grand jury investigation into possible violations of Expert Administration Act , (2009)
• Consumer products manufacturer defends several grand jury investigations , (2009)
• Continental Airlines and United merge in $8.5 billion all-stock merger of equals , (2010)
• Continental Airlines expands hubs and constructs new terminal , (2009)
• Continental Airlines wins dismissal of putative class action alleging violations of Ohio consumer protection laws relating to gift certificates , (2011)
• Continental Automotive Systems favorably resolves issues in connection with effects bargaining pertaining to closure of Alabama facility , (2011)
• Continental Automotive Systems obtains ruling to have putative class action case regarding retiree medical benefits transferred , (2011)
• Continental awarded summary judgment in consumer class action related to OnePass frequent flyer program , (2011)
• Continental Tire obtains preliminary approval in settlement in ERISA class action
• Convergys Corp. acquires Intervoice, Inc. for $335 million
• Convergys Corp. completes exchange offer of Senior Notes for Junior Subordinated Convertible Debentures , (2009)
• Cooper Tire & Rubber affiliate establishes office lease in Findlay, Ohio
• Cooper Tire & Rubber Company obtains dismissal of securities fraud action
• Cooper Tire & Rubber Company sells Cooper-Standard Automotive for $1.1 billion
• Cooper Tire & Rubber establishes compliance with U.S. environmental regulations
• Cooper Tire & Rubber obtains award of full defense costs for environmental matters in Ohio insurance coverage case , (2009)
• Cooper Tire & Rubber prevails in patent infringement suit involving vehicle body mounts , (2009)
• Cooper Tire & Rubber successfully defends against employee wrongful death action , (2009)
• Cooper Tire & Rubber successfully defends against premises liability and products case , (2009)
• Cooper Tire obtains nationwide class settlement in action alleging deficient manufacturing and sales practices for steel-belted radial tires , (2009)
• Cooper Tire wins Ohio court judgment in insurance recovery action against Travelers , (2009)
• Copperweld Corporation retains Jones Day in $240 million chapter 11 reorganization
• Cornerstone acquires Rhopac Fabricators , (2009)
• Corrpro Companies obtains dismissal of action alleging securities disclosure violations , (2009)
• Cortec acquires Display Specialties , (2009)
• Cortec Group acquires outstanding equity interest of Franklin Energy Services
• Cortec Group completes sale of FFR-DSI to Olympus , (2011)
• Credit Suisse First Boston underwrites £55.2 million IPO in the U.K. and Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings by Ark Therapeutics Group plc , (2009)
• Crocker Park obtains summary judgment dismissing action seeking to enjoin financing and construction of project , (2009)
• Cross Creek invests in Burning Palms Productions , (2009)
• Cross Holdings raises capital from Lehman , (2009)
• Crown settles favorably in arbitration in retiree health benefits class action , (2009)
• Crystal Internet invests in Informative
• Crytech establishes patent portfolio for materials science
• CTG Resources merges with Energy East Corporation in $554 million stock-for-stock merger , (2009)
• CTS Corp adopts shareholders' rights plan
• CTS Corp. acquires Orion Manufacturing, Inc.
• Cumberland Gap Provision Company merges with John Morell
• Cummins Engine Company prevails in arbitration over fraud and lost profits claims , (2009)
• Cummins Engine receives full possession over disputed machinery , (2009)
• Cummins Engine summary judgment award is affirmed by 6th Circuit , (2009)
• Cummins obtains summary judgment in warranty and product liability action involving claim of defective engine , (2009)
• Cummins wins summary judgment in case alleging supply of defective engine and failure to repair , (2009)
• Cumulus Media acquires Susquehanna Radio for $1.5 billion , (2009)
• Cuyahoga County Judge obtains dismissal of conspiracy claim
• Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital obtains dismissal of False Claims Act Case , (2009)
• Cyro-Cell's board of directors successful in defense of dissident shareholders attempt to remove incumbent directors , (2009)
• Cytodyne defends against consumer fraud class action in New Jersey court relating to dietary supplements containing androstenedione
• Cytodyne defends against consumer fraud class action involving dietary supplement containing androstenedione , (2009)
• Cytodyne defends against putative consumer fraud class action in New Jersey court involving dietary supplement containing ephedrine
• Daiichi Sankyo acquires generic-drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories for $4.6 billion , (2009)
• DaimlerChrysler AG forms joint venture with Metaldyne Corp.
• Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma acquires Boston Biomedical for US$200 million plus up to US$2.2 billion in earnouts , (2012)
• Dairy Farmers of America involved in Ohio Supreme Court case re property tax , (2009)
• Dana Corp forms Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, a joint venture with Bendix , (2009)
• Dana Corp forms strategic alliance with Permo-Drive , (2009)
• Dana Corp sells Engine Management Operations
• Dana Corp sells trailer axle manufacturing business , (2009)
• Dana Corporation completes bankruptcy sale of business unit to MAHLE , (2009)
• Dana Corporation defends against infringement allegations by IPH , (2009)
• Dana Corporation favorably resolves dispute with major supplier , (2009)
• Dana Corporation issues stock to Centerbridge Capital Partners , (2009)
• Dana Corporation negotiates the sale of products groups
• Dana Corporation seeks advice on employment matters in bankruptcy and restructuring , (2009)
• Dana Corporation successfully reorganizes in U.S. and U.K. in "Deal of the Year" , (2009)
• Dana defends against former employee's age discrimination lawsuit
• Dana obtains bankruptcy exit financing , (2009)
• Datron sells Intercontinental Manufacturing
• David Kutik to serve on Pro Bono Task Force for Legal Services Corporation
• DDR achieves acquisition financing for a three-property real estate portfolio , (2009)
• DDR acquires 107 shopping centers from Benderson Development for $2.3 billion , (2009)
• DDR acquires 15 shopping centers in Puerto Rico for $1.145 billion , (2009)
• DDR affiliate receives $40 million mortgage loan to secure New Jersey property
• DDR and subsidiaries close on first ever offering of CMBS under the Federal Reserve's TALF Program , (2009)
• DDR completes $130.6 million public offering of Common Shares in forward sale
• DDR completes $245.7 million public offering of Common Shares in forward sale
• DDR completes approximately $350 million public offering of Common Stock , (2010)
• DDR completes registered offering of Notes , (2009)
• DDR completes tender offer for Notes , (2009)
• DDR completes tender offer for three series of Senior Notes , (2010)
• DDR establishes $200 million Controlled Equity Program , (2009)
• DDR forms joint venture with Blackstone Group to acquire EDT retail portfolio for $1.4 billion
• DDR issues $300 million of 4.75% Notes in public offering , (2011)
• DDR issues $300 million of 7.875% Notes in public offering
• DDR issues $300 million of Senior Notes in public offering , (2010)
• DDR issues $350 million of 1.75% Convertible Senior Notes in public offering , (2010)
• DDR issues Common Shares in Controlled Equity Program , (2009)
• DDR obtains $300 million term loan facility
• DDR receives $885 million acquisition financing for a 52-property real estate portfolio
• DDR sells minority stake to Otto family for $112.5 million , (2009)
• DDR sells portfolio of 34 industrial real estate assets to BREOF AIP, LLC, an affiliate of Brascan , (2009)
• DDR sells shopping center portfolio to Phillips Edison & Co. , (2009)
• DDR successfully prevents being terminated as the manager of Coventry Real Estate Fund II properties , (2009)
• Death row inmate's second petition for habeas corpus reviewed by Sixth Circuit , (2007)
• Deckers defends against patent infringement claims involving women's footwear , (2010)
• Deckers stops sale of counterfeit UGG® boots in New York
• Decorated 36-year veteran of the Cleveland police force is cleared of all charges resulting from the fatal shooting of an unarmed bank robbery suspect
• Deere & Company negotiates favorable settlement in noncompetition agreement matter
• Defendant wins summary judgment in intentional infliction of emotional distress case , (2009)
• Defense contractor successfully defends against criminal investigation of possible fraud and conspiracy violations , (2009)
• Dell defends against patent infringement action involving image enhancement technology
• Dell resolves three-patent infringement dispute relating to computer systems and cache memory coherency
• Delphi Automotive obtains affirmance of summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds in reverse race and sex discrimination case , (2009)
• Delphi Automotive summary judgment win in employee disability discrimination action is affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• Delphi Automotive Systems settles employee action claiming intentional tort
• Delphi Automotive wins summary judgment in breach of national labor agreement action
• Delphi Automotive wins summary judgment in wrongful discharge and reverse employment discrimination action , (2009)
• Delphi prevails in wrongful termination, fraud, defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress action
• Delphi successfully defends against sexual harassment litigation , (2009)
• Deluxe successfully defends against five employment law cases arising out of plant closing , (2009)
• Dendreon completes $45 million public offering of common stock , (2009)
• Dendreon completes $620 million public offering of Convertible Senior Notes
• Dendreon completes registered direct offering of $45 million of Common Stock , (2009)
• Dendreon issues $75 million of Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes in a Rule 144A offering , (2009)
• Dense-Pac Microsystems pursues patent infringement action relating to microchip stacking technology , (2009)
• DePuy prevails in arbitration proceeding brought by surgeon , (2009)
• DePuy Spine prevails in patent infringement dispute before arbitration panel , (2009)
• DePuy Spine wins $52 MM in patent infringement suit over spinal implant devices , (2009)
• DePuy Spine wins Federal Circuit affirmance of $149.1 million award, one of ten largest patent jury verdicts affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• DePuy Spine wins patent interference trial in D.C. District Court , (2010)
• Developer/contractor resolves federal criminal grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Developers Diversified Realty and joint venture partner Macquarie DDR Trust to redeem substantially all of its interest in the DDR Macquarie Fund
• Diagnostic Imaging Associates settles radiologist's exclusive dealing claim , (2009)
• Dial Finance summary judgment in case involving Second Mortgage Loan Act is affirmed on appeal
• Diebold acquires Sersi Italia
• Diebold acquires TASC Security
• Diebold acquires TFE Technology , (2009)
• Diebold adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Diebold defends against defamation, tortious interference with contract, and conspiracy claims , (2009)
• Diebold defends shareholder derivative action relating to company's restatement of its financial results
• Diebold establishes contract manufacturing agreement with Tata Infotech
• Diebold implements stock repurchase program
• Diebold invests in Solutionary
• Diebold involved in shareholder class action suit , (2012)
• Diebold resolves ERISA stock drop action
• Diebold resolves fiduciary duty class action , (2009)
• Diebold securities litigation dismissal upheld by Sixth Circuit , (2009)
• Diebold sell campus card systems business
• Diebold sells its U.S. election systems business to Election Systems & Software , (2009)
• Diebold successfully defends against $2.2 billion hostile bid by United Technologies Corp. , (2009)
• Digicel makes claim against Cable & Wireless in English High Court for unlawful means conspiracy and breach of statutory duty , (2011)
• Digital communications provider negotiates tech development and licensing agreements
• Directors and officers of financial institution represented in government investigations and related civil litigation , (2010)
• Dollar Bank defends against negligence case
• Dominion East Ohio seeks regulatory approval to exit the natural gas merchant function
• Dominion East Ohio successfully defends against class action alleging Fair Credit Reporting Act violations , (2009)
• Dominion Homes completes sale to buyout group , (2008)
• Domtar obtains summary judgment in litigation involving breach of tax sharing agreement , (2009)
• Donald Brown sells 88.5662 acres of vacant land in Avon, Ohio
• Dongfeng Motor Co. forms joint venture with Nissan Motor for $2 billion , (2009)
• Douglas Dynamics settles favorably in patent infringement and breach of contract action involving snow plow blades
• Dow Corning acquires semiconductor technologies , (2009)
• Dow Corning closes bridge loan , (2009)
• Dow Corning Corp acquires Silicone Division of Nippon Unicar Company
• Dow Corning Corporation reorganizes under chapter 11 , (2009)
• Dow Corning Corporation resolves securities fraud class action , (2009)
• Dow Corning Corporation resolves shareholder derivative action , (2009)
• Dow Corning defends against administrative tax claim challenging deductibility of mass tort litigation costs , (2009)
• Down Syndrome Association obtains tax-exempt status
• DPL and subsidiaries obtain certification of exempt wholesale generator status of generating company subsidiary
• Draper Triangle invests in Ayalogic
• Draper Triangle Ventures invests in ETADirect
• Draper Triangle-led investor group invests in Ayalogic
• Driggs, Lucas, Brubaker & Hogg prevail in malpractice litigation , (2009)
• DTE Energy adopts shareholders' rights plan
• DTR Industries wins dismissal in unfair labor practices litigation
• Duchossois Industries acquires AMX for $288 , (2009)
• Durable medical equipment manufacturer defends Grand Jury and civil False Claims Act investigations regarding marketing and billing practices , (2009)
• DW Healthcare acquires Aerosol Science Laboratories and Topical Apothecary Group
• Dynaplas Limited favorably settles trademark infringement action against Dyna-Plast
• Early Stage Partners invests in Arisdyne Systems
• Early Stage Partners invests in Five Star Technologies
• Early Stage Partners invests in MAR Systems
• East Ohio Gas favorably settles Superfund contribution claims involving waste oil terminal
• East Ohio Gas obtains dismissal of mandamus action seeking to require natural gas utility to purchase mineral rights , (2009)
• Eastman Chemical Company forms joint venture with VerticalNet
• Eastman Chemical files patent infringement charges against BASF
• Eastman Chemical prevails in patent infringement action brought by Wellman involving PET , (2009)
• Eastman Chemical resolves patent infringement dispute over plastic laminates following mediation , (2009)
• Eastman Chemical resolves sorbates price-fixing litigation , (2009)
• Eastman Chemical wins dismissal in infringement action over patent for equipment computer software control
• Eastman Kodak defends against patent infringement claims involving movie special effects software
• Eastman Kodak prevails in action against Goodyear for infringement of patent relating to PET manufacturing process , (2009)
• Eastman Kodak pursues patent infringement suits against Sony involving digital camera technology , (2009)
• Eastman Kodak settles favorably in patent infringement case involving online image storage technology and data management systems
• Eastman Kodak summary judgment win in patent infringement action involving lenticular products is affirmed by Federal Circuit , (2009)
• Eaton resolves antidumping action involving imported axles from Hungary
• Eaton seeks advice on litigation concerning pharmacy benefits manager for client health benefits plans , (2009)
• Eckart Aluminum wins dismissal of suit claiming misappropriation of trade secrets for pigments and coatings , (2009)
• Ecolab seeks advice and retirement benefits , (2009)
• Edgewater acquires business unit of Norac , (2009)
• Edgewater Capital sells Tractech to Eaton
• Edison Brothers creditors' committee reorganizes nationwide retailer under chapter 11 , (2009)
• EDS sells business unit of A.T. Kearney
• Education Management Corporation wins motion to dismiss securities class action , (2011)
• Efficient Channel Coding pursues patent infringement claims relating to Turbo Product Coding
• EGC and Northcoast develop global patent portfolios for aircraft de-ice and anti-ice systems , (2009)
• Eidos Interactive successfully defends against infringement charges involving SNOWBLIND trademark for PlayStation3 video games
• Elder-Beerman Stores adopt shareholders' rights plan
• Elder-Beerman Stores reorganizes under chapter 11 , (2009)
• Elderly woman receives assistance in removing a lien from her home and accessing the funds necessary to make desperately needed home repairs , (2009)
• Electrical products manufacturer not charged in antitrust grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Electrolux seeks advice on retirement benefits , (2009)
• Electronic components manufacturer conducts internal investigation involving cost accounting issues and avoids action by SEC , (2009)
• Electronics company represented in SEC investigation
• EMCORE prevails in patent appeal affirming jury verdict of willful infringement and award of lost profits
• EMCORE victorious in Federal Circuit appeal of fiber optics patent dispute , (2010)
• Empryrean Bioscience obtains dismissal of securities litigation , (2009)
• EMZ resolves patent infringement action concerning dishwasher sensors
• Encyclopedia Britannica pursues patent litigation against USPTO related to multimedia search and retrieval software
• Encyclopedia Britannica successful in Section 145 action relating to reexamination of Compton multimedia product and process
• Endesa, S.A. acquires Smartcom pcs for $300 million
• Energy company signs ISDA agreement , (2009)
• Engine parts manufacturer resolves DOJ, FBI and Department of Commerce investigations regarding shipments to prohibited countries , (2009)
• EnPro Industries adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Entergy wins dismissal of action claiming breach of a purported power sales arising from a "bookout" , (2009)
• Equity Industrial Partners acquires 750,000-square-foot building in Maple Heights, Ohio
• Eramet acquires ferroalloys business of Elkem Metals , (2009)
• Eramet Marietta defends litigation alleging natural resource damages and violations of the Clean Water Act , (2009)
• Eramet Marietta lawsuit results in repromulgation of U.S. EPA's national emission standards for ferroalloys industry
• ERICO amends credit facility
• ERICO completes $121.5 million exchange offer of Senior Subordinated Notes , (2009)
• ERICO completes a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $140 million of Senior Subordinated Notes
• ERICO defends claim in Anicom bankruptcy
• ERICO Holding Corp acquires Thomas & Betts Corp
• ERICO Holding Corp' management buyout of company and related financing
• ERICO Holding Corporation seeks advice on benefits , (2009)
• ERICO obtains credit facility in connection with MBO
• ERICO provides financing to Essex Crane Rental , (2009)
• Estee Lauder builds global patent portfolio for cosmetic products , (2009)
• Ethyl defends against environmental litigation seeking $38 million for alleged PCB contamination at former property , (2009)
• Eubank Manufacturing settles antitrust counterclaims and patent infringement lawsuit involving wall-mounted HVAC units , (2009)
• Evenflo sells its feeding business to Kimberly-Clark de México , (2012)
• Evercore Capital acquires various Davis Petroleum entities in bankruptcy buyout , (2009)
• Everstream Holdings sells business to Concurrent Computer
• Exchange Industrial Income Fund acquires shares of Stainless Fabrication , (2009)
• Exelon and subsidiaries obtain SEC approvals under PUHCA 1935
• Experian Information Solutions wins jury trial victory in antitrust lawsuit , (2012)
• Experian successfully defends business interference tort case , (2009)
• Experian wins appeal of California antitrust action filed by consumer credit report resellers , (2009)
• Experian wins summary judgment in case involving $5 million Fair Credit Reporting Act claims , (2009)
• Experian wins summary judgment in Illinois Fair Credit Reporting Act case
• Experian wins summary judgment in Illinois Fair Credit Reporting Act lawsuit , (2009)
• Experian wins summary judgment in Minnesota Fair Credit Reporting Act case , (2009)
• Explorys raises capital in Series B round , (2010)
• Extreme Networks defends against patent infringement claims relating to power-over-ethernet technology , (2009)
• Family office seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Fedders favorably resolves prior to trial patent infringement action over wall-mounted HVAC units
• Federal appeals court bars a second murder trial of former Ohio death row inmate , (2009)
• Federal inmate successfully appeals to the Sixth Circuit, vacating his conviction , (2005)
• Federal Mogul dismissal of complaint in price discrimination lawsuit is affirmed by Sixth Circuit , (2009)
• Federated completes a public offering of $500 million of Senior Notes
• Federated Department Stores' $17 billion acquisition of May Department Stores is largest U.S. retail deal to date , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores acquires Liberty House
• Federated Department Stores adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Federated Department Stores and affiliates reorganize in chapter 11 , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores defends against class actions and government investigations of compliance with bankruptcy law governing reaffirmation agreements , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores form strategic alliance with Citigroup Inc
• Federated Department Stores implement stock repurchase program
• Federated Department Stores is involved in Ohio franchise tax controversy , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores obtains dismissal of shareholder derivative action
• Federated Department Stores obtains dismissal of securities litigation , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores sells Arizona Mail Order and Figi's Catalog Operations
• Federated Department Stores wins summary judgment in former CEO's breach of contract claim , (2009)
• Federated Dept. Stores merges with R.H. Macy & Co. , (2009)
• Federated sells Bridal Group division to Leonard Green and The Men's Wearhouse , (2009)
• Federated sells Lord & Taylor division to NRDC Equity Partners , (2009)
• FedEx real estate matters
• Ferro completes $250 million public offering of Senior Notes
• Ferro completes public offering of Common Stock , (2009)
• Ferro completes tender offer to purchase for cash any and all outstanding 6.50% Senior Notes
• Ficosa defends against patent infringement charges over three automatic cable components
• Fidelity Equity portfolio company acquires Opti-Flow
• Figgie International defends against patent infringement claims
• Figgie International directors defend shareholder class action
• Financial Guaranty Insurance Company completes reinsurance transaction with MBIA Insurance , (2009)
• Financial institutions win Sixth Circuit appeal dismissing novel public nuisance suit filed by City of Cleveland , (2009)
• Financial services company negotiates with telecom providers to connect branches through vast network
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. defends against $1.86 billion cash tender offer
• Firestone wins in Trial Court
• Firm advises National Parks Conservation Association in travel management contract
• Firm advises nonprofit playground builder in New York City , (2006)
• Firm advises start-up dedicated to assisting ill athletes
• Firm helps establish start-up dedicated to melanoma awareness
• Firm launches charitable fund for coal mining victims
• First American Title Insurance successfully appeals majority of adverse jury verdict in largest damages award given in economic injury case in Ohio history
• First Communications obtains permanent injunction enforcing former employee's noncompetition agreement , (2009)
• FirstEnergy defeats complaint brought by a municipal electric utility that sought to challenge fees , (2009)
• FirstEnergy defeats complaint seeking to enjoin FirstEnergy's unregulated HVAC and electric contracting affiliates from engaging in business , (2009)
• FirstEnergy is Ohio Counsel in $8.5 billion stock-for-stock merger with Allegheny Energy
• FirstEnergy receives $57.47 million Smart Grid Investment Grant and related contracts , (2010)
• FirstEnergy successfully obtains dismissal of class action by customers wanting reinstatement of discounted rates
• FirstEnergy successfully resolves series of cases arising from 2003 blackout , (2009)
• FirstMerit Bank obtains reversal of class certification in Ponzi scheme case
• FirstMerit defends against putative class action regarding debit transaction posting practices , (2012)
• Fives establishes global patent portfolio for combustion technology , (2009)
• Flats East develops and finances office building and hotel in downtown Cleveland
• Flowers Foods acquires Tasty Baking for $175 million , (2011)
• Flowers Industries adopts shareholders' rights plan
• FLX Micro places convertible notes with investor group , (2009)
• FLX Micro places preferred stock with JumpStart , (2009)
• FLX Micro places Series A-1 preferred stock with investor group , (2009)
• FLX Micro places Series A-2 convertible preferred stock with investor group , (2009)
• FLYi Inc. and Independence Air file for bankruptcy with $455 million in debt , (2009)
• FocusDriven - Advocates for Cell-Free Driving gets assistance in raising awareness , (2009)
• Forest City affiliate negotiates 80,000-square-foot department store lease with Lord & Taylor
• Forest City completes $150 million public offering of Senior Notes , (2009)
• Forest City completes a public offering of $100 million of Senior Notes
• Forest City completes a public offering of $125 million of Class A Common Stock
• Forest City completes a public offering of $300 million of Senior Notes
• Forest City completes shelf registration of $842 million of Equity and Debt Securities , (2009)
• Forest City develops new regional shopping centers in Nevada, Virginia, California, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Florida , (2009)
• Forest City negotiates reciprocal easement agreements in connection with the Northfield@Stapleton retail center in Denver's Stapleton Redevelopment Project , (2009)
• For-profit educational company conducts internal investigation , (2009)
• Forset City completes a public offering of $55 million of Common Stock by selling shareholders
• Fortune 500 company establishes compliance with mercury regulations worldwide
• Fortune 500 company successfully resolves federal New Source Performance Standards violations without penalty
• Fortune 500 company successfully resolves Title V air permitting violations without penalty
• Foseco establishes joint venture between Foseco Minsep Enterprises and Corhart Enterprises , (2009)
• Foseco seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Foster's Brewing Group acquires Beringer Wine Estates for $1.5 billion , (2009)
• Foxconn invests in Infinia , (2009)
• Foxconn invests in InvenSense , (2009)
• Foxconn invests in mSilica , (2009)
• Foxconn invests in Siargo , (2009)
• Fractus establishes global patent portfolio for mobile communication antennas
• Francisco Partners acquires GE Global eXchange Services for $800 million , (2009)
• Francisco Partners portfolio company acquires Celarix
• Francisco Partners portfolio company acquires HAHT Commerce
• Freescale defends against claims of patent infringement brought by Tessera before the ITC , (2009)
• Freescale defends against claims of patent infringement relating to semiconductor technology , (2009)
• Freescale files patent infringement suit against ProMOS for semiconductor processes and circuits , (2009)
• Frito-Lay obtains dismissal of Ohio state antitrust litigation , (2009)
• Frito-Lay settles statewide wage and hour class action under Ohio law
• Fruehauf pursues misrepresentation action against outside auditor , (2009)
• Fruehauf Trailer defends against retiree medical benefits class action
• Fruehauf Trailer files for chapter 11
• FTI Consulting issues $400 million of 6 3/4% Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering and concurrent tender offer and obtains $250 million credit facility , (2010)
• Fuji Medical defeats antitrust and breach of contract claims in 10-year dealer termination case , (2009)
• Fuji Medical Systems favorably settles medical x-ray film antitrust class action , (2009)
• Fund offers financial assistance to firefighters
• Furukawa successfully defends against patent infringement charges involving copper alloys
• Galileo International acquired by Cendant for $3.4 billion , (2009)
• Galileo International adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Galyan's conducts environmental review regarding construction of new retail stores in various U.S. shopping centers , (2009)
• GA-TEK sells American Microsystems
• GE lodges Federal Circuit cross appeal seeking attorneys' fees in patent dispute with Whirlpool , (2009)
• GE secures dismissal of former employee's claim that denial of benefits violated ERISA
• GE settles favorably patent infringement action involving polycrystalline diamond drill bits , (2009)
• GE wins summary judgment in class action alleging consumer fraud arising out of halogen light bulbs , (2009)
• GenCorp acquires Atlantic Research propulsion business , (2009)
• GenCorp and OMNOVA defend against ERISA claim involving vested retiree healthcare benefits , (2009)
• GenCorp completes a Rule 144A offering for $150 million of Senior Subordinated Notes
• GenCorp completes a Rule 144A offering of $100 million of Contingent Convertible Subordinated Notes
• GenCorp completes spin-off of public polymer products businesses , (2009)
• GenCorp defends against a $1.2 billion unsolicited takeover bid by Steel Partners , (2009)
• GenCorp defends against proxy solicitation by Pirate Capital's Jolly Roger hedge fund , (2009)
• GenCorp defends against toxic tort suit alleging concerted industry action to conceal dangers of exposure to vinyl chloride , (2009)
• GenCorp defends against vinyl chloride product liability claims , (2009)
• GenCorp is victorious as district court rejects claim
• GenCorp issues $125 million of Convertible Subordinated Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• GenCorp obtains favorable settlement in litigation involving changes to retiree medical benefits for Indiana plant retirees , (2009)
• GenCorp obtains favorable settlement in Ohio class action challenging retiree medical benefits , (2009)
• GenCorp sells Aerojet-General Electronic and Information Systems , (2009)
• GenCorp successfully defends against $2.2 billion unsolicited cash tender offer , (2009)
• GenCorp wins summary judgment in environmental indemnity dispute , (2010)
• General Mills defends against severance benefits litigation , (2009)
• Gennum defends against patent infringement claims over digital hearing aids
• Gennum develops patent portfolio for digital hearing aids, high-definition television video processing circuits and digital data communication circuits
• Gennum prevails after long dispute over infringement claims concerning two patents related to video synchronization separators , (2009)
• George Gund sells San Jose Sharks hockey franchise
• Georgia Gulf completes successful debt-for-equity exchange , (2009)
• Georgia Gulf receives unsolicited proposal from Westlake Chemical , (2012)
• Georgia-Pacific faces Nat'l Gypsum parent in DJ action over wallboards , (2009)
• Giant Industries defeats FTC attempt to block merger with Western Refining , (2009)
• Gigastorage pursues antitrust claims against U.S. Philips' patent licensing program , (2009)
• Gillette defends against patent infringement allegations by national retail store relating to RFID tag technology , (2009)
• Gillette defends against patent infringement charges over inventory control system
• Gillette pursues patent infringement charges against Ranir's toothbrush heads , (2009)
• Gliatech adopts shareholders' rights plan , (2009)
• Gliatech sells intellectual property and pharmaceutical assets to Merck
• Gliatech settles property damage and business interruption claim , (2009)
• Global greentech company seeks patent advice for new green devices and systems , (2011)
• Global Hunter Securities, Moelis & Company, and Aegis Capital underwrite $14 million public offering of Common Stock by Comstock Mining
• Global manufacturer of products, systems and solutions for niche markets obtains term loan and credit facility , (2012)
• GM defense verdict of termination-related claims brought by automobile dealer affirmed by 11th Circuit , (2009)
• GM et al. defeat patent infringement claim involving internet operations , (2009)
• GM is successful against allegations of religious discrimination , (2009)
• GM is successful against proceedings challenging denial of Ohio unemployment benefits
• GM obtains favorable judgment in trial court and on appeal in employment case involving closed Ohio facility , (2009)
• GM obtains summary judgment in action of "reverse" discrimination under Title VII and affirmed on appeal
• GM obtains summary judgment in discrimination lawsuit relating to violations of Americans with Disabilities Act and affirmed on appeal
• GM obtains summary judgment in pre-employment medical care case , (2009)
• GM prevails in ERISA and § 301 action involving severance payments is affirmed on appeal
• GM prevails in intentional tort action brought by estate administrator of deceased employee , (2009)
• GM receives affirmation by court of summary judgment ruling in discrimination action , (2009)
• GM successfully defended against breach of labor contract action , (2009)
• GM successfully defends against class action claiming breach of statutory duty to reimburse dealers for warranty work , (2009)
• GM successfully defends summary judgment appeal in personal injury case , (2009)
• GM wins summary judgment in employment case involving preemption of state law remedies intertwined with collective bargaining agreement and Kentucky common law of contract
• GM's victory of summary judgment in reverse discrimination case affirmed by Court , (2009)
• Golden Oval Eggs to be acquired by Rembrandt Enterprises, Inc. , (2008)
• Goldman Sachs acts as financial advisor to FTD Group, Inc. in its acquisition by United Online, Inc.
• Goode Partners invests in Rachel Ashwell Designs , (2009)
• Goodrich and its board of directors involved in shareholder class-action litigation suit
• Goodrich and Rolls-Royce form engine controls joint venture , (2009)
• Goodrich Corp creates spin-off of Engineered Industrial Products Division
• Goodrich obtains $500 million credit facility , (2009)
• Goodrich obtains credit facility
• Goodrich pursues contract claims against major defense contractor , (2009)
• Goodrich successfully defends claims for retiree medical benefits
• Goodrich to merge with United Technologies for $18.4 billion , (2011)
• Goodrich wins dismissal of claims that spin-off of retirees' medical benefits were unlawful under ERISA
• Goodyear defends against retiree class action resulting in a landmark VEBA settlement , (2009)
• Gorman-Rupp seeks advice on the design, administration and compliance of qualified pension and 401(k) plans , (2010)
• Gould Electronics completes landmark agreement with Ohio EPA for voluntary environmental cleanup
• Gould Electronics defends against toxic tort class action alleging ground water contamination , (2009)
• Gould Electronics defends claims related to Krejci Dump Superfund site
• Gould Electronics involved in environmental matter
• Gould Electronics prosecutes environmental claims against chapter 11 debtors Exide Technologies and Federal-Mogul Corporation , (2009)
• Gould wins dismissal of ERISA litigation brought by the UAW challenging changes to retiree medical benefits
• Great American Communications prepack case completely quickly
• Gross Builders constructs Ohio condominium development
• Gross Builders develops apartment complex and cluster homes in Coventry Township, Ohio
• Gross Builders establishes Edgebrook residential condominium development
• Gross Builders finances construction of multi-building apartment complex in Tennessee
• GrupoNueva sells Amanco to Mexichem S.A.B. de C.V. , (2009)
• Gund Business Enterprises sells Cleveland Cavaliers , (2009)
• GXS issues $105 million of Senior Secured Floating Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• GXS issues 235 million of Senior Subordinated Reset Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• H&R Block sells Option One mortgage loan servicing business to WL Ross for $1.1 billion , (2009)
• Hamilton Beach resolves patent infringement suit resulting in product withdrawal
• Hamilton Beach settles favorably in design patent infringement suit involving slow cooker carrying case
• Hamilton Beach settles patent dispute over air filters resulting in defendant's product withdrawal
• Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Hamilton Lane Carpenters Partnership forms $522 million fund , (2009)
• Hancor appears before TTAB on multiple matters
• Hancor defeats two union organization campaigns
• Hancor defends against intentional tort suit brought by employee involved in workplace accident
• Hancor enforces forum selection clause requiring international distributor to litigate in Ohio , (2009)
• Hancor establishes global patent portfolio for extruded plastic pipe structures and polymer compositions
• Hancor prevails in class action alleging that drug testing policy violated Vermont law
• Hancor resolves patent infringement action involving pipe coupling prior to trial
• Hand Held Products acquired by Honeywell
• Hand Held Products resolves patent infringement dispute over scanners and imaging , (2009)
• Hanna Perkins School to renovate historic facility , (2009)
• Harman International Industries adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Harmon Glass settles favorably settles enforcement action of noncompetition employment contract , (2009)
• Harmon Glass settles noncompetition employment contract dispute , (2009)
• Harmon Solutions defends against breach of contract arbitration involving technology for third-party call center , (2009)
• Harris Corp acquires Encoda Systems for $340 million , (2009)
• Harris Corp acquires Leitch Technology for $454 million , (2009)
• Harris Corp sells interest in Live TV joint venture , (2009)
• Harris Corporation acquires Carefx for $155 million , (2011)
• Harris Corporation acquires Tyco Electronics Wireless Systems , (2009)
• Harris Corporation and Johns Hopkins Medicine announce joint venture to develop innovative medical image management solutions , (2011)
• Harris Corporation seeks advice on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Harry & David negotiates pre-arranged bankruptcy plan , (2011)
• Harry & David sells Jackson & Perkins business , (2009)
• Harsco acquires ESCO Interamerica, Ltda. , (2009)
• Harsco acquires Excell Materials for $200 million , (2009)
• Harsco acquires steel mill services business for $229 million , (2009)
• Harsco completes $250 million public offering of Senior Notes
• Harsco completes $450 million public offering of Senior Notes , (2009)
• Harsco sells business unit to Wind Point Partners
• Hawk Corporation defends class-action litigation alleging breach of fiduciary duties in approving proposed sale of company , (2010)
• Helen Keller International prevails in employment discrimination matter , (2011)
• Helicopter parts manufacturer resolves qui tam action , (2009)
• Heraeus Kulzer GmbH wins battle in Third Circuit over critical information , (2010)
• Herbalife successfully defends against patent infringement charge related to managing dynamic web pages , (2009)
• Hercon Labs appeals judgment in patent dispute against Key Pharmaceuticals , (2009)
• Heritage Development receives ongoing development advice
• Hewitt Associates acquires Exult
• High Road Capital acquires Accentus , (2009)
• High Road Capital acquires Advanced Sleep Medicine Services , (2010)
• High Road Capital acquires All Current Electrical , (2009)
• High Road Capital acquires assets of Industrial Electric Systems , (2009)
• High Road Capital acquires assets of MRecord and shares of ServTech Systems India , (2011)
• High Road Capital acquires Celco Controls
• High Road Capital acquires Handi Quilter , (2011)
• High Road Capital acquires Milwaukee Gear and Treat All Metals , (2009)
• High Road Capital acquires PANOS Brands , (2011)
• High Road Capital portfolio company acquires certain assets of Pacific Sleep Medicine Services
• High Road Capital portfolio company affiliate acquires outstanding stock of Zylomed Corporation
• High Road Capital portfolio company affiliate acquires Transolutions
• High Road Capital portfolio company All Current Electrical Sales acquires Western Controls and Breakers , (2009)
• Hilite Industries completes cleanup under Illinois EPA's voluntary site remediation program
• Hilite International acquires Ebea S.A. , (2009)
• Hilite International acquires Hydraulik-Ring subsidiary of Siemens VDO
• Hilite International completes add-on acquisitions
• Hilite International completes sale to 3i , (2011)
• Hilite International is acquired by Hilite Holdco Corporation, newly formed entity through merger and debt for equity swap , (2010)
• Hillside Dairy settles antitrust litigation involving sale of milk to Ohio schools , (2009)
• HNI Corp adopts shareholders' rights plan
• HomePlace sells off most of its assets , (2009)
• Honda brings ITC action against Wuxi Kipor Power involving portable power equipment engines , (2009)
• Honda enforces patents related to portable power equipment engines
• Honda resolves patent infringement dispute initiated by Orion over electronic parts catalogs
• Hospira resolves breach of contract action to supply 100 million baby bottle nipples to Brazilian subsidiary of major pharmaceutical company , (2009)
• Hospital health system refines HIPAA compliance policies , (2009)
• Hospital resolves DOJ proceeding regarding physician recruiting practices , (2009)
• Hospital resolves U.S. Attorney's office and HHS OIG investigation for alleged overcharges , (2009)
• Hospital system general counsel resolves DOJ investigation for alleged violations of antikickback laws , (2009)
• Hospital system resolves U.S. Attorney and Office of Inspector General investigation regarding Medicare billing procedures , (2009)
• Hostess Brands commences bankruptcy proceedings , (2012)
• Hotel company in dispute over water damage , (2009)
• Housing deed returned to hospitalized man
• Howard Hughes completes spin-off from General Growth Properties , (2010)
• HQ Global Holdings and its affiliates file for chapter 11 involving more than $500 million in debt , (2009)
• HQ Global Workplaces acquired by Regus Group
• Hygenic Corp. settles favorably in trade dress case involving rights to color in exercise bands
• Hygenic Corp. successfully opposes registration of HYGIENICS trademark , (2009)
• Hygenic Corp. successfully opposes registration of HYGIENICS trademark , (2009)
• Hygenic Corporation completes sale to Cortec Group
• Hyland Software defends against patent infringement claims involving image-capture data storage software
• iBiquity Digital acquires worldwide IP license for satellite radio broadcasting application
• iBiquity issues 45 million of Series C Convertible Preferred stock in a private placement
• iBiquity places shares with investor group , (2009)
• IBM and SAS defend against patent infringement action related to financial data processing method , (2012)
• IBM answers patent infringement claims brought by Auburn University involving semiconductors , (2010)
• IBM considers Endicott ground water remediation obligations and claims , (2009)
• IBM defends against infringement charges over computer mouse patent
• IBM defends against patent infringement charges over updating e-catalog information , (2009)
• IBM defends against patent infringement charges relating to data management on computer networks , (2009)
• IBM defends against patent infringement charges relating to soliciting and receiving Internet donations
• IBM divests printer business to Ricoh , (2009)
• IBM files U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in case involving scope of patent-law doctrine of obviousness , (2009)
• IBM obtains permanent injunctive relief and award of fees in trademark infringement suit against Shentech.com over counterfeit laptop batteries , (2009)
• IBM settles favorably in patent infringement case against Amazon.com involving data storage and presentation , (2009)
• IBM settles favorably in patent infringement case against Amazon.com involving electronic ordering systems , (2009)
• IBM successfully defeats claims for birth defects allegedly due to paternal chemical exposures in semiconductor manufacturing facilities , (2009)
• IBM wins defense verdict in San Jose workers' toxic tort litigation case , (2009)
• IBM wins partial summary judgment in case alleging that workplace chemical exposures caused birth defects in offspring of semiconductor manufacturing worker , (2009)
• Idearc Media defends multi-state class and collective action, in which the plaintiffs allege violations of state and federal law for alleged off-the-clock work
• Igeneon AG acquired by Aphton , (2009)
• Image Holdings Corp. acquires InFocus Corp. , (2009)
• IMG Worldwide acquired by Forstmann Little for $750 million , (2009)
• IMG Worldwide favorably settles breach of contract case involving sponsorship of nationwide home and garden shows , (2009)
• IMG Worldwide obtains favorable settlement in case involving breach of celebrity-based Internet content contract , (2009)
• Imperial Capital and Canaccord Genuity act as initial purchasers in CAD$132.5 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by The Cash Store Financial Services
• Imperial Home Décor Group and five affiliated entities are restructured under chapter 11
• InBev defends against multiple actions brought by wholesalers following transfer of U.S. import rights , (2009)
• InBev USA defends against allegations of improper alcohol marketing to youth
• inChord Communications acquired by Ventiv Health for $185 million , (2009)
• Industrial Growth Partners acquires Consolidated Precision Products
• Industrial Growth Partners acquires controlling interest in CFI Holdings , (2009)
• Industrial Growth Partners acquires controlling interest in Total Automated Solutions , (2009)
• Industrial Growth Partners acquires equity of Global Power Systems
• Industrial Growth Partners acquires Heat Transfer
• Industrial Growth Partners acquires Lexington Precision from Aurora Capital
• Industrial Growth Partners portfolio company acquires companies
• Industrial Growth Partners portfolio company acquires KEM Küppers Elektromechanik GmbH
• Industrial Growth Partners sells Breeze Industrial Products , (2009)
• Industrial Growth Partners sells Consolidated Foundries , (2009)
• Industrial Growth Partners sells Global Power Systems to Kirby subsidiary
• Industrial Growth Partners sells TASI recapitalization
• Industrial Security Services completes sale to United American Security Holdings
• Information technology services provider closes credit and loan facility
• Infrastructure Holdings acquires FNF Construction
• Inmates' habeas corpus appeal affirmed before the Sixth Circuit , (2005)
• Inova Health System sold
• Insight Enterprises defeats TRO, gets trade secrets case tossed , (2009)
• Insight Enterprises settles trade secret misappropriation case with no injunction
• Institutional investor restructures $300 million hotel fund , (2010)
• Instron issues $60 million of 13-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• Insurance and financial services company conducts internal investigation
• Insurance companies hold senior notes in Mid-American Waste bankruptcy , (2009)
• Integrated Coffee establishes patent portfolio for transgenic plant technology , (2009)
• Intelligroup acquired by NTT DATA for $199 million , (2010)
• Interlachen Capital invests in Encampment Minerals
• International accounting and legal professional service partnerships seek advice on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• International Automotive Components Group North America obtains credit facility
• International Automotive Components purchases Collins & Aikman assets
• International broker/dealer defends DOJ investigations regarding embezzlement of funds , (2009)
• International Coal Group acquired by Arch Coal for $3.4 billion , (2011)
• International Coal Group completes registered offering for $256.1 million of Common Stock
• International Coal Group completes three public offerings concurrently with two cash tender offers , (2010)
• International Coal Group defends securities class action , (2009)
• International Coal Group obtains $325 million credit facility
• International Coal Group obtains dismissal of shareholder class action , (2009)
• International metallic products manufacturer resolves DOJ antitrust investigations , (2009)
• International Paper and Nevamar favorably settle patent infringement suit involving solid-surface material
• International Paper defends against action alleging misappropriation of trade secrets , (2009)
• International Paper opposes third party attempt to intervene in lawsuit to see confidential documents , (2009)
• International Paper's Nevamar division settles favorably in patent infringement action involving decorative laminates
• International Steel acquires Acme Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Weirton Steel, and Georgetown Steel , (2009)
• International Steel completes a private placement of $156.7 million of Class B Common Stock to finance the acquisition of the steelmaking assets of Bethlehem Steel Corporation , (2009)
• International Steel Group acquires Acme Steel Assets
• International Steel Group acquires Bethlehem Steel assets , (2009)
• International Steel Group acquires Weirton Steel
• International Steel Group completes IPO of $531 million of Common Stock
• International Steel Group finances acquisition of Bethlehem Steel
• International Steel Group issues $600 million of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• International Steel Group merges with Ispat International , (2009)
• International Steel Group purchases assets of Weirton Steel and Georgetown Steel in their respective chapter 11 cases , (2009)
• International Steel Group seeks labor advice in acquisition of certain steel manufacturing and related facilities
• International Steel participates in registered public offering of preferred stock
• International Steel prevails in age discrimination litigation brought by current employee
• Interstate Diesel resolves action against Robert Bosch for breach of contract, fraud , (2009)
• Interstate Diesel resolves patent infringement action over electronic fuel injectors
• Investment fund obtains financing for acquisition of Focus Receivables
• Iron & Glass Bancorp merges with F.N.B. Corp. , (2009)
• Iron Ore Company of Canada completes private placement of $243 million of Senior Secured Notes and enters into credit facility , (2009)
• Iron Ore Company of Canada transfers majority interest to North Limited , (2009)
• Iron Ore Company of Canada undergoes capital restructuring , (2009)
• Iron Ore holds preference claim in Georgetown Steel bankruptcy
• IVS invests in Voex
• J.C. Penney sells Eckerd drugstore operations to CVS Corp. and The Jean Coutu Group , (2009)
• J.C. Penney sells its Direct Marketing Services Business to AEGON , (2009)
• J.F. Lehman acquires National Response Corporation and affiliated businesses , (2012)
• J.M. Smucker acquires International Multifoods Corp. , (2009)
• J.M. Smucker and Folgers defend against claims of patent infringement by Balsam over coffee processing , (2009)
• J.M. Smucker Co. acquires Jif and Crisco product lines from Procter & Gamble , (2009)
• J.M. Smucker combines its Class A and B common shares to eliminate nonvoting shares
• J.M. Smucker Company adopts shareholders' rights plan
• J.M. Smucker defends shareholder actions seeking injunction against Smucker-Multifoods merger , (2009)
• J.M. Smucker files infringement suit related to its PURITAN trademark
• J.M. Smucker issues $1.9 million of Common Shares in a public offering in connection with an acquisition of Jif and Crisco businesses
• J.M. Smucker obtains $400 million unsecured revolving credit facility
• J.P. Morgan Securities offers revenue bonds to National Healthcare Research and Education Finance Corporation
• J.P. Morgan Securities underwrites bonds for building construction on Cleveland Clinic campus
• Jack-Post wins defense verdict in patent and trade dress infringement trial
• Jameson Inns sells company to JER Partners , (2009)
• JBL obtains court decision that antitrust disputes can be resolved in arbitration , (2009)
• JCU faces various claims arising out of construction of campus buildings , (2009)
• JCU receives $38,790,000 State of Ohio Higher Educational Facility Revenue Bonds (John Carroll University 2006 Project)
• JCU to build new science and technology building
• JCU to expand and renovate athletic facilities
• Jefferies acts as financial advisor of Chipidea Microelectronica S.A. in the acquisition by MIPS Technologies, Inc. , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as financial advisor to Claymont Steel in acquisition by Evraz Group S.A. and Titan Acquisition Sub, Inc. , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as financial advisor to Hologic in its $6.2 billion acquisition of Cytyc Corporation , (2009)
• Jefferies acts as initial purchaser in offering by MCBC Holdings and related bank financing
• Jefferies acts as placement agent in public offering of Common Stock by Gladstone Commercial Corporation , (2009)
• Jefferies and Banc of America underwrite a secondary public offering for $173 million of Class A Common Shares by TBS International Limited and selling stockholders , (2009)
• Jefferies and UBS Bank underwrite $273.5 million of Common Stock in a public offering by Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. , (2009)
• Jefferies and UBS Bank underwrite $848.6 million public offering of Common Stock by Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. , (2009)
• Jefferies closes Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Elyria Foundry Holdings and related bank financing
• Jefferies completes $50 million public offering of Common Stock by Penford Corporation , (2009)
• Jefferies Finance arranges loan and credit facilities for a manufacturing company , (2009)
• Jefferies Finance provides credit facilities to GPO and healthcare services company , (2009)
• Jefferies Finance provides credit facility to Synchronous Aerospace , (2009)
• Jefferies Finance provides financing to Irving Place Capital Partners for acquisition of National Surgical Hospitals , (2011)
• Jefferies Finance provides financing to Luxlas Fund Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of Lassonde Industries Inc., in connection with acquisition of Clement Pappas and Company , (2011)
• Jefferies Finance provides financing to Surgery Center Holdings for acquisition of NovaMed
• Jefferies Finance provides loan facility to CPI companies for acquisition of Wm. A. Didier & Sons , (2009)
• Jefferies provides credit facility for CPI Card Group acquisition
• Jefferies serves as financial advisor to Merge Healthcare in private placement to Merrick , (2009)
• Jefferies underwrites $35 million sale of Preferred Stock in public offering by Gladstone Investment Corporation , (2012)
• Jefferies underwrites $40 million public offering of Common Stock by Kulicke and Soffa Industries , (2009)
• Jefferies underwrites a public offering of $100 million of Common Stock by Warren Resources, Inc. , (2009)
• Jefferies underwrites IPO for $54 million of Common Shares by Westport Innovations , (2009)
• Jefferies underwrites public offering of $56.6 million of Common Stock by Northwest Pipe Company , (2009)
• Jefferies, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Wunderlich Securities, and Dominick & Dominick underwrite $38.5 million sale of Series C Preferred Stock in public offering by Gladstone Commercial Corporation
• Jefferies, representative of the underwriters, completes $57.4 million sale of Common Shares in public offering by Westport Innovations , (2009)
• Jewish Community Federation negotiates software agreement , (2009)
• Jewish Community Federation seeks advice on retirement and other issues , (2009)
• John Carroll University defends against national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by former professor
• John Carroll University prevails in sex discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation lawsuit
• Johnson & Johnson company defends against patent infringement allegations for spinal implant technology , (2009)
• Joint venture advice given to multi-specialty physician group
• Jones Day lawyers help holocaust survivors obtain pension payments from the German government
• Jones Day of Service goes global , (2011)
• Jones Day pursues action against service provider using JONES DAY service marks
• Jones Day pursues claim regarding unauthorized use of web site content and service mark infringement , (2010)
• Jones Day recognized as the Don Bosco Cristo Rey "Employer of the Year"
• Jones Day secures new DNA testing for Ohio inmate , (2010)
• Jones Day successfully files Levitz Home Furnishings bankruptcy
• Jones Day successfully pursues cyberpiracy and related claims against registered owner of www.jonesdays.com , (2010)
• JPMorgan Chase participates in sale-leaseback of 33 properties , (2009)
• JPMorgan Chase refinances Hawk Corporation facility , (2009)
• JRK Birchmont Advisors acquires 17 multi-family projects in various U.S. states, and obtains related acquisition financing , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Absorbent Materials Company , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in AcelleRX Therapeutics , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in ADAP Nanotech
• JumpStart invests in Advanced Materials Technology International
• JumpStart invests in AnalizaDx , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Anderson Aerospace , (2011)
• JumpStart invests in Aria Analystics , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Banyan Technology
• JumpStart invests in Caralon Global, LLC
• JumpStart invests in Catacel , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in CerviLenz , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in ChanRx , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in Checkpoint Surgical , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in Cleverland
• JumpStart invests in ComSense Technology , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in CoverMyMeds , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in Day-Day
• JumpStart invests in Delta Plant Technologies
• JumpStart invests in DIY Real Estate Solutions , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Electron Database Corporation
• JumpStart invests in Freedom Meditech , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals
• JumpStart invests in Heritage Fare
• JumpStart invests in HF Food Technologies
• JumpStart invests in iGuiders , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in InSeT Systems
• JumpStart invests in Inspiron Logistics
• JumpStart invests in Intelligent Mobile Support
• JumpStart invests in Knotice , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Knowledge Sphere , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in MAX Endoscopy , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in Melody Management , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in MesoCoat , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Milo Biotechnology
• JumpStart invests in Myers Motors , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Neuros Medical , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Nine Iron Innovations , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in OptixConnect
• JumpStart invests in Preemptive Solutions , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in RemedyCity
• JumpStart invests in reXorce Thermionics
• JumpStart invests in RSP Tooling
• JumpStart invests in Securus Medical
• JumpStart invests in SironRX Therapeutics
• JumpStart invests in SpearFysh
• JumpStart invests in SPR Therapeutics
• JumpStart invests in Stanton Advanced Ceramics
• JumpStart invests in Telerad Express , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in TheraVasc Inc. , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in Thermalin Diabetes , (2010)
• JumpStart invests in Vasolux Microsystems , (2009)
• JumpStart invests in Wireless Environment , (2009)
• JumpStart purchases Series E Preferred Stock in private placement , (2009)
• JumpStart re-invests in Catacel
• Kaiser Aluminum and Ohio EPA negotiate consent order for remedial investigation/feasibility study at Ohio facility , (2009)
• Kaiser Aluminum and twenty of its subsidiaries emerge successfully from chapter 11 protection , (2009)
• Kaiser Aluminum sells Alumina Partners of Jamaica interest to Hydro Aluminum
• Kaiser Aluminum sells Queensland Alumina interest to RUSAL Group
• Katz defense group defends against patent infringement claims , (2011)
• KBCM Bridge provides loan facility to American Dental Partners for Metropolitan Dental Holdings acquisition
• Keithley Instruments acquired by Danaher Corporation for $300 million
• Kendal Corporation acquires beds for Granville facilities
• Kendavis plans to liquidate
• Kerr-McGee Chemical resolves hazardous waste notice of violation
• Key Corporate Capital provides syndicated construction loan for assisted living facility in Battery Park City, New York , (2009)
• Key Principal Partners acquires Kellermeyer Building Services
• Key Principal Partners completes sale of portfolio company Kellermeyer Building Services to affiliate of Kohlberg & Co.
• Key Principal Partners invests in Kan-Pak , (2009)
• Key Principal Partners invests in Trantech Radiator , (2009)
• KeyBanc and others underwrite IPO for $73 million of Common Stock by Superior Well Services , (2009)
• KeyBanc and others underwrite public offering by Cedar Fair for $77 million of Limited Partner Interests , (2009)
• KeyBanc Capital Markets acts as counsel to Oregon Steel Mills in its $2.3 billion acquisition by Evraz Group S.A. , (2009)
• KeyBanc completes $134.9 million public offering of Common Stock by Superior Well Services , (2009)
• KeyBanc completes a public offering by Cintas Corporation No. 2 for $250 million of 6.125% Senior Notes
• KeyBanc completes a public offering of $250 million of 6.15% Senior Notes by Cintas Corporation No. 2
• KeyBanc completes IPO for $71 million of Common Stock by Warren Resources, Inc.
• KeyBanc finalizes a public offering of $50 million of Senior Notes by Cintas Corporation No. 2
• KeyBanc issues $100 million of 6-1/4% Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by State Auto Financial Corporation
• KeyBanc serves as financial advisor in Myers Industries acquisition
• KeyBanc, Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo Securities act as agents in equity offering program of Common Stock by AIMCO
• KeyBank brings federal court action regarding $170 million construction loan , (2012)
• KeyBank closes $180 million credit facility with Cedar Fair , (2009)
• KeyBank closes $180 million credit facility with US Shipping
• KeyBank closes $300 million credit facility with Nordson , (2009)
• KeyBank closes $650 million credit facility with Cooper , (2009)
• KeyBank closes credit facility for Wastequip
• KeyBank participates in Sauer-Danfoss credit facility
• KeyBank provides $100 million credit facility for Dayton Power & Light
• KeyBank provides $130 million credit facility to plastic compounds supplier , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $130 million syndicated secured credit facility to American Dental Partners
• KeyBank provides $150 million credit facility to Dayton Power & Light
• KeyBank provides $150 million credit facility to manufacturing company
• KeyBank provides $150 million credit facility to VIASYS , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $200 million financing for Select Portfolio
• KeyBank provides $275 million credit facility to STERIS , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $300 million credit facility for Crown
• KeyBank provides $300 million credit facility to PAREXEL , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $330 million credit facility to industrial machine manufacturer , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $350 million credit facility for Sauer-Danfoss , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $400 million credit facility to Nordson , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $400 million credit facility to STERIS
• KeyBank provides $497 million loan facilities to Gibraltar entities
• KeyBank provides $700 million credit facility to Eaton
• KeyBank provides $750 million multi-credit facility for acquisition of Ocular Sciences , (2009)
• KeyBank provides $95 million credit facility to valve manufacturer
• KeyBank provides acquisition financing for Quickie Manufacturing
• KeyBank provides acquisition financing to Manhattan Beachwear
• KeyBank provides credit facility and term loan for acquisition of fishing company
• KeyBank provides credit facility for CH Energy
• KeyBank provides credit facility to American Dental Partners , (2009)
• KeyBank provides credit facility to Chronic Care
• KeyBank provides financing for $56 million LBO of diagnostic service company
• KeyBank provides financing for acquisition of healthcare company
• KeyBank provides financing to ICO, Bayshore Industrial, and ICO Polymers
• KeyBank provides financing to provider of management services for acquisition of operator of ambulatory surgical centers
• KeyBank provides financing to Rex Energy
• KeyBank provides financing to Vigor Industrial , (2012)
• KeyBank provides line of credit for PE fund
• KeyBank provides line of credit to PE firm
• KeyBank provides loan facility to DPL
• KeyBank provides term loan for medical REIT
• KeyBank refinances Magnequench debt
• KeyBank restructures NCS HealthCare facility
• KeyCorp acts as financial advisor to Cogdell Spencer in $247 million acquisition of Marshall Erdman and Associates , (2009)
• KeyCorp acts as financial advisor to Venoco in its $201 million sale of assets to Denbury Resources , (2009)
• KeyCorp corporate real estate services
• KeyCorp defends class actions alleging securities fraud and ERISA violations arising out of investments related to Bernard Madoff , (2010)
• KeyCorp defends two shareholder derivative actions, one relating to excessive compensation paid to certain officers in 2009, and second alleging breach of fiduciary duty relating to liabilities incurred as result of litigation with IRS , (2010)
• KeyCorp obtains dismissal of shareholder derivative complaint , (2011)
• KeyCorp, New York Life and RBS entities defend against claims of patent infringement by Phoenix Licensing over system for customized offers in direct marketing program to consumers , (2010)
• KFC prevails in trademark infringement action , (2009)
• Kimpton Hotels acquires Sè San Diego Hotel , (2011)
• Kindred Healthcare defends against harassment litigation , (2008)
• Kirtland Capital acquires certain assets of The Heil Co
• Kirtland Capital acquires Essex Crane Rental , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital acquires Instron Corporation , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital acquires MicroGroup , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital acquires Northwest Mailing Service and Linden-Taylor , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital acquires Profile Metal Forming
• Kirtland Capital acquires Truck Bodies & Equipment International , (2010)
• Kirtland Capital forms Kirtland Capital Partners IV , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital obtains credit facility for portfolio company Instron , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital obtains financing for add-on acquisition , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital Partners acquires business unit of Carborundum Insulations Technologies
• Kirtland Capital portfolio company acquires Crysteel Manufacturing
• Kirtland Capital portfolio company acquires Hardee Equipment Company , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital portfolio company acquires Metrics Marketing Group , (2010)
• Kirtland Capital portfolio company acquires Ox Bodies
• Kirtland Capital portfolio company acquires Rugby Manufacturing
• Kirtland Capital portfolio company merges with Roulston & Company
• Kirtland Capital refinances Instron , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital sells Essex Crane Rental , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital sells Instron Corporation
• Kirtland Capital sells International Graphics
• Kirtland Capital sells MicroGroup Blaine , (2009)
• Kirtland Capital sells PDM Bridge
• Kirtland Capital sells portfolio company PVC Container to Castle Harlan , (2010)
• Kirtland Capital sells portfolio company to American Securities Capital
• Kirtland Capital sells TruSeal Technologies to Quanex Corp. , (2009)
• Kitchen Collection seeks advice on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Kmart Creditor Trust obtains settlements from former Kmart officers and auditors , (2009)
• Knight-Ridder defeats purported class wage and hour action brought by former newspaper carriers , (2009)
• Knight-Ridder successfully defends against sexual harassment claim brought by employee , (2009)
• Knox Community Hospital forms joint venture with physicians
• KOA favorably settles prior to trial patent infringement case involving resistor technology
• Kodak defends patent infringement claims in the ITC relating to digital photo frames
• Kodak, Motorola, Texas Instruments win and sustain summary judgment of noninfringement involving computer product patents
• Koppers' claim of insurer's liability for environmental property damage coverage affirmed by Third Circuit , (2009)
• KU Energy Corp merges with LG&E Corp. , (2009)
• Lacquer Craft Manufacturing acquires Universal Furniture
• Laidlaw and five affiliates file for chapter 11
• Laidlaw International issues $406 million of Senior Notes in a Rule 144 and Regulation S offering and public exchange offering
• Laidlaw resolves action related to tax losses transferred from foreign subsidiaries , (2009)
• Lakeview Bluffs seeks to develop 1,100-acre brownfield in Lake County, Ohio
• Lam Research and Novellus Systems to combine in $3.3 billion all-stock transaction , (2011)
• Lamson & Sessions acquired by Thomas & Betts , (2009)
• Lamson & Sessions adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Lamson & Sessions defends against breach of contract litigation involving purchase of business , (2009)
• Lamson & Sessions defends against patent infringement claims relating to telecommunications conduits
• Lamson & Sessions develops patent portfolio for electrical devices and supporting hardware
• Lamson & Sessions prosecutes action against insider shareholders and directors of YSD Inc. for breach of contract and other claims , (2009)
• Lamson & Sessions prosecutes action for numerous business torts against Wiesman , (2009)
• Lamson & Sessions pursues breach of contract action against carrier under motor carrier transportation contract , (2009)
• Lamson & Sessions wins summary judgment in breach of contract action against PW Eagle for thwarted sale , (2009)
• Lamson & Sessions succeeds in appeal of electrical outlet cover patent infringement jury verdict , (2009)
• Lancaster Colony sells business assets of Indiana Glass and E.O. Brody subsidiaries
• Lancaster Colony sells operating assets of Des Moines automotive accessory operations
• Large hospital health system advised on physician integration
• Large multi-specialty academic medical center invests in Cleveland HeartLab
• Lars Aviation prevails in jury trial involving breach of contract in jet aircraft sale , (2009)
• Latrobe to be acquired by Carpenter Technology for $558 million , (2011)
• Law firm defends against derivative action alleging breach of duty and conflict of interest
• Law firm defends against legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty case
• Law firm prevails in dispute with insurance carrier involving disclosure issues in underlying medical malpractice suit , (2009)
• Law firm successfully defends against malpractice suit involving elderly client
• Lawn GreenKeeper completes sale to The Barish Fund , (2009)
• Lawyer assist elderly client to get her home back in fraudulent eviction action
• LCA Vision successfully defends against consent solicitation to replace Board of Directors
• LCI International acquires, in serial acquisition of easements and rights of way to establish multistate fiber optic networks
• LCOR Alexandria completes a private placement of $580 million of Leasebacked Series 2001 SAVRS
• LCOR Alexandria issues $181 million of Leasebacked Series 2001 Fixed Rate Bonds in a Rule 144A offering
• Lehman Brothers affiliate defends against consumer fraud action involving reverse mortgage transaction
• Lehman Brothers Holdings seeks recovery of undisclosed asset value transferred in bankruptcy sale of broker dealer , (2010)
• Lehman Brothers obtains dismissal of Texas securities class action filed by Enron Corporation securities holders , (2009)
• Lehman Brothers sells minority interest to Quadrant
• Lenovo defends infringement claims by CIF Licensing over patent for MPEG data compression technology , (2010)
• Levey & Company successfully appeals $2 million jury verdict on abuse of process claim , (2009)
• Life Line Screening obtains credit facility to refinance existing debt
• Life Line Screening sells Preferred LLC Units , (2009)
• Lincoln Electric acquired the electrode manufacturing business of Nanjing Kuangtai , (2011)
• Lincoln Electric defeats TRO, obtains dismissal of DJ action by former employee involving restrictive covenants
• Lincoln Electric defends against class action alleging breach of incentive stock award contracts
• Lincoln Electric reaches settlement with insurer for past costs and policy coverage for welding product claims , (2009)
• Lincoln Electric reorganizes and forms holding company
• Lincoln Electric seeks advice regarding all facets of design and administration of qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, deferred compensation plans and executive compensation arrangements , (2010)
• Lincoln Electric structures global employee's stock purchase and option plans , (2009)
• Lincoln Electric successfully defends products liability and fraud class action involving welding electrodes used in certain buildings damaged by Northridge earthquake , (2009)
• Little Mountain acquires The Dolphin Company
• Littlejohn & Co. acquires business unit from Goodyear , (2009)
• Loewen completes funeral home transactions and successfully defends against hostile takeover attempt , (2009)
• Loewen Group International and 870 affiliated entities file for chapter 11 , (2009)
• Loma Linda undertakes joint ventures
• Louisiana-Pacific favorably settles patent infringement action prior to trial
• LowerMyBills, Inc. defends declaratory judgment action involving commercial contract dispute , (2009)
• LowerMyBills, Inc. obtains judgment on pleadings in third party action alleging consumer fraud , (2009)
• LSI Logic develops strategic alliance with StorageTek
• LTV and Copperweld, leading integrated U.S. producers of steel, file for chapter 11 , (2009)
• LTV Corporation sells integrated steel assets to WL Ross & Co. , (2009)
• LTV Steel asserts engineering malpractice claim against Baker over failed landfill , (2009)
• LTV Steel defends against breach of labor agreement claims arising from manning agreement with steelworkers union
• LTV Steel defends against patent infringement claims involving annealing process equipment
• Lubert-Adler negotiates joint venture and property management agreements for acquisition and loan assumption of 204-unit multi-family property in Alabama
• Lubrizol acquired by Berkshire Hathaway for $9.7 billion , (2011)
• Lubrizol acquires Merquinsa , (2011)
• Lubrizol Corporation and its directors involved in class-action and derivative litigation challenging the company's merger with Berkshire Hathaway
• Lubrizol is successful in Illinois income tax controversy , (2009)
• Lubrizol refinances Euro revolving credit facility
• Lubrizol wins noninfringement verdict on appeal in suit brought by Exxon involving oil additives
• Lucent defends against Winstar bankruptcy proceeding claims concerning value of telecommunications network , (2009)
• Lucent reviews contracts with Pacific Crossing
• Lucent Technologies is creditor in AT&T Latin America case , (2009)
• Lycoming Engines prevails in arbitration brought by aircraft manufacturer arising from engine crankshaft recalls , (2009)
• Lycoming Engines wins class decertification motion , (2009)
• M. A. Hanna arbitrates dispute seeking dissolution of joint venture , (2009)
• M. A. Hanna Company adopts shareholders' rights plan
• M. A. Hanna Company completes merger of equals with Geon , (2009)
• M. A. Hanna Company sells Cadillac Plastic assets to GE Plastics
• Macquarie Group and Carlyle Group acquire Redflex Holdings for $304 million , (2011)
• Macy's obtains dismissal of ERISA action , (2011)
• Macy's obtains dismissal of shareholder derivative action , (2009)
• Macy's seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Macy's wins jury verdict in antitrust group boycott litigation involving fine china tableware , (2009)
• Macy's obtains dismissal of securities class action
• Macy's obtains dismissal of securities class action
• Magazine wholesaler and principal resolve antitrust grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Major airline defends antitrust grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Major communications company defends grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Major Japanese company bids (subsequently terminated) for a U.S. power company out of a Chapter 11 proceeding , (2010)
• Major midwest based charity seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Major midwest school district seeks counsel on taxation of employee benefits , (2009)
• Major midwest-based manufacturer converts DB pension plan for collectively bargained employees to cash balance plan , (2009)
• Major midwest-based manufacturer redesigns benefit plan , (2009)
• Major midwest-based manufacturer seeks advice on pension and retiree welfare benefit liabilities , (2009)
• Major midwest-based manufacturer seeks representation for DOL investigation , (2009)
• Major property owner participates in sale-leaseback involving 53 properties
• Major teaching, research and clinical hospital obtains dismissal of federal and state class actions challenging its not-for-profit status and billing practices , (2009)
• Management consulting company represented in SEC investigation , (2012)
• Mannesmann battles various liens and lawsuits after consortium "partner" ceases to perform , (2009)
• Mannesmann Demag negotiates construction contracts for continuous caster/ladle metallurgy facility
• Manufacturer of access control products negotiates outsourcing services agreement
• Manufacturing company conducts internal investigation regarding possible accounting fraud , (2009)
• Manufacturing company obtains declination of all criminal charges by DOJ and monetary settlement with SEC in parallel criminal/civil investigations for alleged fraud in financial statements , (2009)
• Manufacturing company represented in federal criminal inquiry , (2010)
• Manufacturing corporation acquires 26.0173 acres of vacant land in an Ohio industrial park
• Manufacturing corporation negotiates construction contract to build new warehouse
• Marconi Communications is creditor in multiple bankruptcy cases
• Marconi develops patent portfolio for telecommunications technologies
• Marconi successfully defends third-party contribution claim involving Texas ground water cleanup
• Marine Mechanical obtains credit facility , (2009)
• Marine Mechanical seeks advice on acquisition
• Marlin Equity Partners acquires business units from Requisite Technology , (2009)
• Marshfield Clinic secures FTC approval for acquisition of Wausau Medical Center , (2009)
• Martek Biosciences wins across-the-board victory in biotech dispute before five-judge Federal Circuit panel , (2009)
• Maryland County Commissioners pursue insurance coverage action for recovery of costs for remediating groundwater contamination at landfill , (2009)
• MathWorks defends against patent infringement case relating to software for modeling and simulating dynamic systems , (2009)
• MathWorks pursues patent infringement case involving computerized system for accessing objects , (2009)
• MathWorks wins $7.5 million jury verdict in software copyright infringement and breach of contract case , (2009)
• Mattel settles voluntary toy recall litigation , (2009)
• Max Trac Tire favorably settles trademark infringement action involving truck and SUV tires
• Maximus defends against former executive's age discrimination claim , (2008)
• May Department Stores defeats plaintiff's motion for class certification and obtains dismissal of shareholder litigation , (2009)
• May Department Stores defends shareholder action claiming breach of fiduciary duty , (2009)
• MBIA Insurance is creditor in subprime mortgage case , (2009)
• MBIA Insurance is secured creditor in Forum Health chapter 11 case , (2010)
• MBNA and Bank of America defends against religious discrimination lawsuit , (2008)
• McDonald & Co. Securities acquires Crossman Communities
• McDonald & Co. Securities acquires Masco Tech , (2009)
• MCM Capital acquires assets and assumes liabilities of Saisha Technology, STACI, and Copperstreets , (2009)
• Mead Corporation wins Supreme Court victory
• Meaden & Moore wins arbitration award in breach of contract action arising from construction of sanitary sewer system , (2009)
• Medhost defends corporate governance action filed by stockholder , (2009)
• Media Arts Group settles breach of copyright contract dispute before trial , (2009)
• Medical device company conducts internal investigation and defends DOJ criminal investigation , (2009)
• Medical device company defends investigations by U.S. Attorney's Office, FBI and FDA's Office of Criminal Investigation regarding 510K issues and representations to the FDA , (2009)
• MedImmune licenses in IP on antibodies that target IL-5 receptor , (2009)
• Medina Supply defends against series of allegations of defective concrete , (2009)
• MedStar Health acquires cardiology practice of Cardiology Associates
• MedStar Health obtains dismissal of antitrust challenge involving resident matching program , (2009)
• MedStar syndicates surgery center to physicians
• Medtronic obtains dismissal in False Claims Act action , (2009)
• Mellon Bank dismissal of actuarial malpractice action is affirmed by 6th Circuit , (2009)
• Mellon Private Trust defends against claims arising from alleged dissipation of assets that account-holder had pledged to secure loan , (2009)
• Menasha appeals summary judgment ruling in monopolization case to 7th Circuit
• Mentor favorably settles trade secret misappropriation case
• Mentor obtains summary judgment against $800,000 claim for injuries from silicone breast implants , (2009)
• Mentor obtains summary judgment in case involving allegations of injuries caused by Polytef injectable Teflon vocal cord paste , (2009)
• Mentor obtains summary judgment in Missouri court against $9 million claim for injuries from silicone breast implants , (2009)
• Mentor obtains summary judgment in New Jersey action claiming injuries from external ultrasound device , (2009)
• Mentor obtains summary judgment on all claims , (2009)
• Mentor wins complete defense verdict after trial in case alleging injuries caused by ObTape , (2009)
• Mentor wins defense verdict in product liability action alleging defective implantable medical device , (2009)
• Mentor wins dismissal of all claims brought by physician , (2009)
• Mentor wins dismissal of class action seeking medical monitoring , (2009)
• Mentor wins summary judgment in defective medical device litigation , (2009)
• Mentor wins summary judgment in Florida breast implant product liability case , (2009)
• Mentor wins summary judgment in Florida court against $1.3 million claim for silicone breast implant injuries , (2009)
• Mentor wins unanimous jury verdict in Mississippi case alleging defective breast implants , (2009)
• Mentor's summary judgment win against claims of harm to surgeon's medical practice is affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• Mentor's summary judgment win against Gebhardt's claims of defective implantable medical device is affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• Mentor's summary judgment win in case claiming injuries from penile prosthesis is affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• Mercury Interactive acquires Registry Maker Systinet for $105 million , (2009)
• Merrill Lynch prevails in complex breach of trading agreement litigation , (2009)
• Mesa Airlines acquires America West in bankruptcy buyout , (2009)
• Mesa Airlines obtains dismissal of derivative action , (2009)
• Mesa Airlines resolves shareholder class action , (2009)
• Mesa Airlines wins dismissal of federal case in Ohio alleging defective aircraft engine , (2009)
• Metal-building insulation company and principal acquitted of price-fixing charges in jury trial , (2009)
• Metaldyne completes $65 million tender offer to purchase outstanding 10% Senior Notes and 11% Senior Subordinated Notes , (2009)
• Metaldyne files for bankruptcy protection , (2009)
• Metaldyne sells Powertrain, Balance Shaft Module, Tubular Products, and Chassis assets to MD Investors , (2009)
• Metals manufacturer conducts internal investigation , (2009)
• Metals manufacturer resolves grand jury investigation of employee deaths related to alleged workplace contamination , (2009)
• Metering Technology Corp. negotiates strategic alliance for electronic utility meters
• Metropolitan signs lease agreement with vehicle equipment manufacturer
• MeziMedia acquired by ValueClick for $352 million
• Michaels completes a Rule 144A offering for $200 million of Senior Notes
• Micro Warehouse resolves securities litigation , (2009)
• Micron Technology forms IM Flash Singapore, a joint venture with Intel Corporation in Singapore , (2009)
• Micron Technology forms IM Flash Technologies, a $5.2 billion joint venture with Intel Corporation , (2009)
• Micron Technology forms MeiYa Technology Corporation, a joint venture with Nanya Technology Corporation , (2009)
• Micron Technology resolves patent infringement suit over semiconductor packaging for DRAMs , (2009)
• Millennium Inorganic Chemicals obtains injunction and negotiates strike issues with USWA
• Milliman successfully defends against various claims, including restitution under ERISA, fraudulent misrepresentation and actuarial malpractice , (2010)
• Miltex establishes patent portfolio for dental instruments
• MIM Software negotiates software license and distribution agreements for reviewing medical images , (2009)
• Mining company conducts internal investigation of alleged accounting fraud , (2009)
• Minister of major midwest church seeks compensation counsel , (2009)
• Minova USA seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Mitel establishes patent portfolio for telecommunications circuits and systems
• Molten Metal Equipment defeats patent infringement action relating to molten metal pumps , (2009)
• Molten Metal Equipment receives $8M award in patent infringement action involving molten metal pumps
• Molycorp acquires controlling stake in Estonian rare earths processor AS Silmet , (2011)
• Molycorp completes IPO of $407.9 million of Common Stock on NYSE , (2010)
• Molycorp completes public offering of Convertible Senior Notes, along with concurrent secondary public offering of Common Stock
• Molycorp completes public offering of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, along with concurrent secondary public offering of Common Stock , (2011)
• Molycorp receives $390 million strategic investment from Molymet , (2012)
• Molycorp to acquire Neo Material Technologies in $1.3 billion deal , (2012)
• Monier successfully opposes motion to dismiss in dispute over entitlement to profits , (2009)
• Montgomery Ward files $5 billion bankruptcy case , (2009)
• Morgan Stanley acquires 49% interest in Crescent Resources, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corporation
• Morgan Stanley and Jefferies, as representatives of several underwriters, complete $237.5 million public offering of Common Stock by Westport Innovations
• Morgan Stanley closes $650 million private placement by York Enhanced Strategies Fund , (2009)
• Morgan Stanley underwrites follow-on public offering of Common Shares by Westport Innovations , (2010)
• Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Raymond James underwrite $96 million sale of 7.75% Class U Cumulative Preferred Stock in public offering by Apartment Investment and Management Company
• Morgenthaler acquires assets of Skill Tool & Die , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires Avtron Manufacturing , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires controlling interest in Formed Fiber Technologies , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires Flow Solutions , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires Gates Formed-Fibre Products
• Morgenthaler acquires Phillips & Temro Industries , (2009)
• Morgenthaler acquires rePipe , (2009)
• Morgenthaler and Early Stage Partners invest in Arisdyne Systems , (2009)
• Morgenthaler Capital refinances U.S., U.K., and Canadian credit facilities of portfolio company Phillips & Temro Industries , (2011)
• Morgenthaler completes sale of portfolio company Ryan Herco Flow Solutions to Greenbriar Equity Group
• Morgenthaler forms Morgenthaler Partners VIII fund , (2009)
• Morgenthaler forms VC and LBO fund , (2009)
• Morgenthaler invests in Five Star Technologies , (2009)
• Morgenthaler invests in Lamina Ceramics
• Morgenthaler Partners sells Fiber Optic Network Solutions for $172 million , (2009)
• Morgenthaler portfolio company acquires controlling interest in Martin Color-Fi , (2009)
• Morgenthaler portfolio company acquires Peninsula Valve and Fitting Company , (2010)
• Morgenthaler portfolio company acquires piping distribution business of Corrosion Products & Equipment , (2010)
• Morgenthaler purchases debt securities of Lamina Ceramics
• Morgenthaler re-invests in Lamina Ceramics
• Morgenthaler restructures and invests in PhilTem Holdings
• Morgenthaler restructures Formed Fiber Technologies , (2009)
• Morgenthaler sells certain assets of Flow Solutions , (2009)
• Morgenthaler, Parthenon Investors, and rePipe Holdings complete sale of rePipe subsidiaries
• Morrison Knudsen Corporation sells Electro-Mechanical division
• MOSAID launches patent suit against Samsung over nine patents for DRAM technology , (2009)
• MOSAID Technologies pursues claims against Samsung and Infineon for infringement of semiconductor chip patents , (2009)
• MOSAID Technologies settles favorably in patent infringement case involving computer memory , (2009)
• Motorola and Freescale resolve patent suit with STMicroelectronics over 12 semiconductor patents , (2009)
• Motorola/Freescale settle favorably patent infringement action involving semiconductor technology , (2009)
• Mount Carmel Health acquires cardiovascular services of Clinical Cardiovascular Specialists
• Mr. Silvis wins appeal in the 8th District Court of Appeals based on ex post factor clause
• MTC obtains $55 million credit facility
• MTC Technologies acquires International Consultants
• MTC Technologies completed $97.75 million IPO of 5.75 million shares of Common Stock
• MTC Technologies completes IPO for $104 million of Common Stock
• MTC Technologies completes IPO of $85 million of Common Stock
• MTC Technologies defends fiduciary duty claims arising from merger with BAE Systems , (2009)
• MTC Technologies is acquired by BAE Systems , (2009)
• MTC Technologies obtains dismissal in action claiming short-swing trading , (2009)
• Multi-hospital health system implements virtual intensive care unit and electronic health records , (2009)
• Multi-national companies represented in international FCPA inquiries , (2010)
• Multinational corporation resolves economic issues in interest arbitration
• Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation defends against patent infringement claims related to bone-cleaning and demineralization technology , (2009)
• Mutual Capital secures development loan
• NACCO attempts to acquire Nissan's forklift truck business
• NACCO Industries' affiliate, North American Coal, sells coal mine in Louisiana , (2010)
• NACCO Industries' affiliate, North American Coal, participates in customer financing of refined coal facilities
• NACCO makes $325 unsolicited tender offer for Applica , (2009)
• NACCO purchases assets of Le Gourmet Chef
• NACCO seeks counseling on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• NACCO's affiliate, North American Coal, acquires coal assets from Phillips Coal Co.
• Napster Inc. and two of its subsidiaries file for chapter 11
• NatCity Investments acquires Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co.
• NatCity wins summary judgment in breach of contract action related to marketing for sale of closely-held company , (2009)
• National bank resolves Department of Justice federal criminal investigation regarding alleged failure to comply with anti-money laundering regulations , (2009)
• National bank responds to data security breach involving theft of mortgage loan customer data
• National Century Financial Enterprises litigates chapter 11 issues , (2009)
• National City acquires Allegiant Bancorp , (2009)
• National City acquires First of America Bank Corp.
• National City acquires Provident Financial Group
• National City Bank defends against claims by plan fiduciary of breaches of ERISA fiduciary duties
• National City Bank defends against class action relating to recording of mortgage releases , (2009)
• National City Bank defends ERISA action , (2009)
• National City Bank defends securities, derivative and ERISA litigation arising from dislocations in credit and real-estate markets , (2009)
• National City Bank holds leases in Northwest Airlines chapter 11 case , (2009)
• National City Bank in lease transaction with Comair , (2009)
• National City Bank is administrative agent for Advance Watch workout , (2009)
• National City Bank obtains dismissal of class action alleging defective ERISA plan amendment and breach of fiduciary duties
• National City Bank resolves securities fraud action , (2009)
• National City Bank restructuring Delta leases , (2009)
• National City Bank summary judgment affirmed on appeal , (2009)
• National City Bank to loan money to Gibson-Homans , (2009)
• National City Bank wins dismissal of action alleging multimillion dollar investment scheme , (2009)
• National City Bank, agent for bank group commences involuntary chapter 11 against Colfor/Colmach , (2009)
• National City closes $175 million loan with Calgon Carbon
• National City closes $600 million amendment with OM Group
• National City completes $925 million amendment to OM Group credit facility
• National City completes a public offering by National City Capital Trust II for $750 million of Trust Preferred Securities , (2009)
• National City completes a public offering for $300 million of Subordinated Notes
• National City completes a public offering of $700 million of Subordinated Notes
• National City completes a shelf-takedown public offering for $300 million of Floating Rate Senior Notes
• National City completes a shelf-takedown public offering of $600 million of Floating Rate Notes
• National City completes a take-down public offering for $200 million of Senior Notes
• National City completes public offering of $1.4 billion of 4.0% Convertible Senior Notes , (2009)
• National City completes public offering of $150 million of 9.875% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock , (2009)
• National City completes public offering of $500 million of Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal APEX by National City Preferred Capital Trust I , (2009)
• National City Corp sells First Franklin for $1.3 billion to Merrill Lynch , (2009)
• National City Corporation defends shareholder litigation , (2009)
• National City Corporation negotiates offshore outsourcing agreement with India’s Tata Infotech
• National City Corporation waits to see if contracts will be assumed , (2009)
• National City defends antitrust litigation involving ATM network services and processing , (2009)
• National City Equity Partners invests in EWI Holdings
• National City files claim in US Airways bankruptcy , (2009)
• National City is agent for scrap metal company , (2009)
• National City issues $125 million of 4.90% Senior Notes in a shelf-takedown offering
• National City issues stock to Corsair Capital , (2009)
• National City merges with Fort Wayne National Corp.
• National City provides $100 million financing to Calgon Carbon
• National City provides $105 million credit facility to Calgon Carbon
• National City provides $270 million credit facility for chemical provider
• National City provides $330 million credit facility to Esco Technologies , (2009)
• National City provides $400 million credit facility to greeting card producer
• National City provides $450 million credit facility to Abercrombie & Fitch
• National City provides $50 million credit facilities to Playhouse Square
• National City provides $57 million credit facility to manufacturing company
• National City provides $650 million credit facility to American Greetings , (2009)
• National City provides $80 million financing for LBO of elevator company and mechanical service company
• National City provides acquisition financing to auto products supplier
• National City provides credit and loan facilities to Gleason
• National City provides credit facility to manufacturing company
• National City provides credit facility to RPM International
• National City provides credit facility to U.S. service business
• National City provides financing for LBO of gear drive manufacturer
• National City provides financing for LBO of respiratory products manufacturer
• National City provides financing to Bob Evans for acquisition of Mimi's Cafe
• National City provides financing to medical center
• National City provides loan to electrical component manufacturer
• National City pursues action to enforce employment contract noncompetition and nonsolicitation provisions
• National City restructures credit facilities for Gourmand Specialty Foods and Hudson Valley
• National City restructures facilities for kitchen textile products producer
• National City sells First Franklin for $3 billion to Fannie Mae , (2011)
• National City sells National Processing to Bank of America
• National City settles case seeking to recover cost of environmental cleanup under the CERCLA
• National City settles wage and hour class action challenging the exempt status of its underwriters and wage and hour issues , (2009)
• National retail store defends against class actions alleging off-the-clock violations of federal and state wage and hour laws , (2010)
• National retailer negotiates to restructure software licenses with major software vendor
• National telecommunications association seeks counsel on retirement benefits , (2009)
• National Westminster Bank USA, Pittsburgh National Bank files for chapter 11 , (2009)
• Nationally-recognized Ohio consumer products manufacturer restructures debt , (2010)
• NationsBanc Mortgage prosecutes foreclosure and defends counterclaims , (2009)
• NationsBank defends against bank brokerage customer class actions in federal and state courts in Florida, District of Columbia, Georgia, and Texas , (2009)
• NationsRent, Inc. and its subsidiaries file for chapter 11 in $1.2 billion reorganization of company , (2009)
• Nationwide Financial Services issues $600 million of 5.375% Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering , (2011)
• Nationwide Insurance and Harleysville Insurance agree to combine , (2011)
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. acquires Gartmore Global Investments
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. acquires Nationwide Financial Services for $2.4 billion
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. acquires THI Holdings
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance defends against shareholder class action alleging breach of fiduciary duty from buy-out , (2009)
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance represented in challenges to its merger with Harleysville Mutual , (2012)
• Navy material supplier conducts internal investigation and resolves DOJ and U.S. Attorney's Office inquiries , (2009)
• NDI Medical completes sale of limited liability interests in NDI Healthcare Fund
• NDI Medical completes sale to Medtronic , (2009)
• Nestlé defends against antitrust counterclaims in Break-n-Bake cookie dough patent infringement case , (2009)
• Nestlé Purina resolves patent infringement dispute over cat litter, resulting in product withdrawal
• Nestlé settles favorably in patent infringement case relating to cat litter product , (2009)
• Nestlé wins Ohio appellate affirmance of summary judgment in putative class action involving entitlement to interest on merger consideration from Ralston Purina merger , (2009)
• NetGenics acquired by LION Bioscience AG
• NetGenics issues $21.3 million of Convertible Preferred Stock in a private placement
• Nevada Power merges with Sierra Pacific Resources
• Nevamar establishes global patent portfolio for paperboard technologies and composites for countertops
• Nevamar settles favorably in patent infringement action involving decorative laminates
• Nevamar settles long-running patent infringement dispute involving decorative laminates for countertops
• New England Motor Freight negotiates dismissal from national antitrust class actions involving fuel surcharges on LTL shipments , (2009)
• Newark Electronics pursues breach of contract action related to computer software design for South Carolina distribution center , (2009)
• Newspaper conglomerate seeks counsel on retirement benefits , (2009)
• NexPak closes $74 million facility in exit financing
• NexPak Corporation restructures $200 million in debt
• NexPak negotiates IP licensing for CD, DVD and electronic games packaging
• NexPak obtains $37 million DIP financing
• Nextel acquires NeoWorld Communications
• Nextel buys out spectrum assets from Nucentrix
• Nextel closes $580 million equipment financing in exit financing for affiliate , (2009)
• Nextel Communications acquires Chadmoore Wireless , (2009)
• Nextel Communications forms Nextel Partners
• Nextel completes a public offering for $2.8 billion of Common Stock
• Nextel completes a public offering of $500 million of Senior Serial Redeemable Notes
• Nextel completes a public offering of $823 million of Senior Serial Redeemable Notes
• Nextel merges with Sprint and resolves related disputes involving put shares and branding issues , (2009)
• Nextel obtains $6.6 billion loan and credit facility
• Nextel repurchases shares from Motorola
• Nextel settles favorably in patent infringement action relating to mobile radio technology
• Nextumi raises capital in Series A round , (2009)
• Nidec acquires motors and controls business of Emerson Electric , (2010)
• NII Holdings negotiates (and subsequently terminates) contract for $1.44 billion sale of 30% equity stake in Comunicaciones Nextel de Mexico to Grupo Televisa , (2010)
• Nikko Materials defends against litigation involving the purchase and sale of assets at auction , (2009)
• NineSigma invests in subsidiary , (2009)
• NineSigma raises capital in private placement , (2009)
• NMHG issues $250 million of Senior Notes in Rule 144A & Regulation S offering , (2009)
• Nokia settles favorably patent infringement suit involving modulation technology
• Nokia successfully defends against claims of patent infringement relating to 3G wireless technology , (2009)
• Nokia wins favorable summary judgment in patent infringement case involving design of cell phone keyboards , (2009)
• Nonprofit dedicated to providing financial assistance to El Salvadorian youth receives assistance in raising and distributing funds
• Non-profit news organization, focusing on high-quality journalism in the Bay Area civic and community news, is launched
• Nonprofit organizations form spinoff companies , (2009)
• Nonprofit religious organization resolves grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Nonprofit research hospital develops licensing and IP management programs , (2009)
• NorAm Energy merges with Houston Industries to form CenterPoint
• Nordson acquires shares in GLT Gesellschaft fur
• Noro-Moseley forms Noro-Moseley Partners V , (2009)
• Noro-Moseley purchases Membership Interests of NeoSpine , (2009)
• North American Coal forms joint venture for mining services in Louisiana project , (2010)
• North American Coal forms joint venture for mining services in South Texas project
• North American Coal forms joint venture for mining services with Mississippi Power Company
• North American Manufacturing Co. prevails in product liability action involving brick plant explosion , (2009)
• North American Manufacturing develops global patent portfolio for furnace components and operating systems
• North American Manufacturing pursues declaratory judgment action regarding product warranties for equipment installed in petrochemical refinery , (2009)
• North American Manufacturing successfully defends against product liability case involving destruction of furnace , (2009)
• North Coast invests in Cervilenz , (2009)
• North Coast invests in Exacter
• North Coast invests in I2C Technologies
• North Coast invests in Stanton Ceramics
• Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services and doctor granted new trial after appeal from adverse $30 million jury verdict in medical malpractice case , (2009)
• Northrop defends civil litigation and criminal investigations relating to alleged payments to Korean government officials , (2009)
• Norton wins summary judgment in silicosis claim before Cuyahoga County Court , (2009)
• Noteworthy Medical Systems places notes and shares , (2009)
• Noteworthy Medical Systems recapitalizes notes into equity
• Not-for-profit health care systems defend putative class actions challenging hospitals' tax-exempt status , (2009)
• Noveon defends against IP infringement charges over carboxylated silicon-based polymers
• NRG Energy acquires equity interest in ProLogis' Project Amp , (2011)
• NRG Energy obtains project financing for development of 550 MW combined cycle power plant in California , (2011)
• NRP Group affiliate negotiates joint venture, and subsidiary obtains mortgage loan, for the development of the Cresta Bella Apartments Project
• NRP Group affiliates are advised regarding mezzanine loan and amendments to transaction documents
• Nutro sells manufacturing and machinery business
• NVIDIA receives assistance on environmental law matters
• Oak Hill Capital forms joint venture with Ascension Health to acquire Catholic hospitals , (2011)
• Oaktree Asset Management stockholders sell majority of assets to Banyan Partners , (2009)
• OfficeMax establishes strategic alliances for selling technology products and services
• OfficeMax successfully resolves litigation involving redemption of $20 million of preferred stock , (2009)
• Official committee of equity security holders of GSI Group achieves substantial improvement in recovery for existing equity holders , (2010)
• OFS Portal forms joint venture of 15 services companies
• OG&E obtains writ of prohibition enjoining purported class action challenging electric utility billing practices , (2009)
• OG&E receives Smart Grid Investment Grant for $130 million , (2010)
• OG&E wins dismissal of writ action seeking to enjoin administrative review of $1.8 billion generation facility construction project , (2009)
• OGE defends against state court litigation arising from "take or pay" natural gas purchase contracts , (2009)
• OGE Energy forms joint venture with ArcLight Capital
• OGE Energy prevails in arbitration over claimed damages from "take or pay" contracts
• Oglebay Norton acquired by Carmeuse , (2009)
• Oglebay Norton closes $305 million replacement DIP financing
• Oglebay Norton issues $80 million of Convertible Preferred Stock to former common shareholders as part of bankruptcy reorganization
• Oglebay Norton obtains $75 million DIP financing
• Oglebay Norton seeks chapter 11 reorganization , (2009)
• Oglebay Norton sells six Great Lakes shipping vessels to American Steamship
• OHB Technology and ORBCOMM form joint venture for development and deployment of Automatic Identification System satellites and related infrastructure
• Ohio Bar Association wins suit over fee disputes
• Ohio City achieves Special Improvement District status , (2011)
• Ohio Edison wins dismissal of suit , (2012)
• Ohio Edison wins right to implement vegetation management plan
• Ohio Governor Ted Strickland commutes sentence of death row inmate , (2010)
• Ohio inmate exonerated based on DNA test results after 29 years in prison
• Ohio inmate is represented on appeal based on recently discovered forensic evidence , (2009)
• Ohio Savings Bank forms $75 million U.S. real estate fund
• Ohio Supreme Court strikes down portions of sex offender law as violation of separation of powers , (2010)
• Ohio TechAngel and Science & Technology Campus Corporation invest in Interventional Imaging , (2009)
• Oil and gas exploration and production company obtains credit facility , (2009)
• OIS Optical Imaging Systems successfully defends against injunctive proceeding by defense contractor seeking to go out of business , (2009)
• Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company resolves "Positive Energy" trademark dispute with Eveready Battery , (2012)
• Oklahoma Gas and Electric obtains judgment reversal in take or pay case , (2009)
• Oklahoma Gas and Electric wins jury verdict defending claim arising from "take or pay" natural gas contract , (2009)
• Old Carco (Chrysler) sells Indianapolis foundry property to Indy Assets , (2010)
• Old Carco (Chrysler) sells industrial facility to University of Delaware , (2010)
• Old Carco (Chrysler) sells Michigan assembly plant to Chrysler Group , (2010)
• Old Carco (Chrysler) sells Ohio stamping plant to Maynards Industries , (2010)
• Olympia & York has creditors' committee appointed , (2009)
• Olympic Steel acquires Chicago Tube and Iron for $156 million , (2011)
• OM Group acquires Borchers , (2009)
• OM Group acquires EaglePicher Technologies from EaglePicher Corporation for $171.9 million , (2009)
• OM Group acquires electronics business of Rockwood Holdings for $315 million , (2009)
• OM Group acquires Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG for $1 billion , (2011)
• OM Group sells nickel assets to OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel for $408 million , (2009)
• OMG Fidelity pursues trade secret action involving electroless nickel formulae , (2010)
• Omnicom Group acquires M/A/R/C
• Omnicom Group acquires Novus Marketing
• Omnicom Group defends shareholder class action , (2009)
• Omnicom Group resolves shareholder litigation , (2009)
• Omnicom issues $850 million of Liquid Yield Option Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• OMNOVA completes tender offer of $162 million of Senior Notes , (2009)
• OMNOVA issues $165 million of Senior Secured Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering , (2009)
• OMNOVA issues $250 million of Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• ON Semiconductor obtains favorable settlement in patent infringement claim related to semiconductor components
• Online aggregator of auto insurance obtains credit facilities
• Orion Power Operating Services Midwest defends against sexual discrimination and whistle-blower lawsuit
• OrthoHelix Surgical Designs obtains credit facility in connection with refinancing , (2010)
• OrthoHelix Surgical Designs raises capital in Series C round , (2009)
• Ospraie Management acquires ConAgra Trade Group
• Oxy defends against 10 wrongful death cases arising out of alleged cancer cluster near Superfund sites , (2009)
• P&G to sell PUR water filtration business to Helen of Troy for $160 million , (2011)
• Pacific Petroleum acquires BP Southwest Pacific , (2010)
• Packaging and container manufacturer defends antitrust grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Pagemill Partners acquired by Duff & Phelps
• PageNet defends against nationwide class action alleging unreasonable rates under Communications Act of 1934
• PageNet defends against nationwide class action arising out of Galaxy IV satellite malfunction , (2009)
• PageNet successfully defends against class action challenging collection of late payment charges
• Parallel fund acquires and recapitalizes Diesel Service & Supply
• Parallel Investment Partners (f/k/a SKM Growth Investors) sells Benetech , (2009)
• Parallel Investment Partners forms buyout fund , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin acquires 70% of the shares of Kuroda Pneumatics
• Parker Hannifin acquires Acadia Elastomers
• Parker Hannifin acquires Aqua Pro , (2008)
• Parker Hannifin acquires Commercial Intertech
• Parker Hannifin acquires Denison International , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin acquires HTR Holding Corp. , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin acquires Scan Subsea ASA , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin acquires Snap-tite , (2012)
• Parker Hannifin acquires Sporlan Valve Company
• Parker Hannifin acquires Titan Industries
• Parker Hannifin acquires Wynn's International
• Parker Hannifin completes shelf-takedown public offering of $775 million of Medium-Term Notes , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin defends against nationwide products liability class action , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin issues $222 million of 4.875% Senior Notes in a public offering , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin issues $281 million of 6.25% Notes in a Regulation S offering
• Parker Hannifin obtains non-suit with prejudice in wrongful death action stemming from single-engine Cessna crash , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin prevails in two appeals of contract interpretation case , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin resolves dispute over defective stainless steel tubing , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin resolves successfully multi-plaintiff wrongful death action arising from crash of flight en route from Egypt to France , (2009)
• Parker Hannifin settles during appeal claims filed in wake of SilkAir crash , (2009)
• Parker-Hannifin completes public offering of $300 million of Medium-Term Notes
• Park-Ohio closes loan facility
• Park-Ohio defends environmental cleanup claims involving Port Chester, New York property , (2009)
• Park-Ohio increases credit facility to $200 million
• Park-Ohio Industries resolves trademark dispute involving foreign imports
• Park-Ohio issues $210 million of Senior Subordinated Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• Park-Ohio issues $250 million of 8.125% Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering and completes $111.5 million tender offer for Senior Subordinated Notes
• PCS Nitrogen defends federal environmental investigation in Louisiana
• PCS Nitrogen reviews compliance with various environmental regulations , (2009)
• PE firm finances acquisition of franchise business
• PE firm obtains credit facility
• PE firm obtains financing for acquisition of glass producer
• Penske receives favorable ruling in breach of service contract arbitration , (2009)
• Penton Media acquires Duke Communications International
• Penton Media acquires New Hope Communications
• Penton Media acquires Streaming Media
• Penton Media adopts shareholders' rights plan
• Penton Media completes a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $157 million of Senior Secured Notes
• Penton Media completes a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $185 million of Senior Subordinated Notes
• Penton Media defends against age discrimination lawsuit , (2009)
• Penton Media defends against breach of contract action , (2009)
• Penton Media issues $200 million of stock in a public offering , (2009)
• Penton Media issues $50 million of Convertible Preferred Stock and Warrants to purchase common stock in a private placement
• Penton Media negotiates favorable settlement of insurance recovery related to advertising liability policies , (2009)
• Penton Media resolves shareholder class action , (2009)
• Penton Media wins appeal reversing nearly $1 million jury verdict in discrimination case , (2009)
• Pepsi files monopolization and conspiracy suit against Coke , (2009)
• PepsiCo defeats employee class actions alleging violations of the right to privacy , (2009)
• Pershing Square Capital proposes DIP loan to General Growth Properties , (2010)
• Pharmaceutical and device manufacturers conduct compliance risk assessment , (2010)
• Pharmacia Biotech prevails on appeal, rendering plaintiff's patent unenforceable in inequitable conduct ruling , (2009)
• Phillips & Temro Industries completes sale/leaseback of Minnesota office warehouse industrial facility
• PHNS acquired by ConJoin Group for $250 million
• PHNS completes $36 million sale of Venyu Solutions to Gladstone Investment Corporation , (2010)
• Phylogy completes angel round , (2009)
• Phylogy completes sale of substantially all intellectual property to Actelis Networks
• Phylogy places stock and warrants with investors , (2009)
• Phylogy raises capital in Series C round , (2009)
• Physician researcher testifies before House of Representatives subcommittee , (2009)
• Picker Int'l settles favorably during trial in patent infringement suit involving software-based MRI imaging units , (2009)
• Pillar Point Partnership sells 50% interest in Merrill & Ring Forest Products
• Pillowtex and 23 affiliated entities file for chapter 11 , (2009)
• Pitney Bowes resolves infringement dispute concerning patents for automatic mailing machines , (2009)
• Plansee Holding completes sale of PMG to VVG
• Plant Insulation Company files Chapter 11 in effort to obtain asbestos injunction , (2010)
• PNC Bank converts construction loan for Texas mall renovation , (2009)
• PNC Bank is agent for MCSi , (2009)
• PNC Bank is DIP lender in Pittsburgh Corning reorganization , (2009)
• PNC Bank provides financing to Abercrombie & Fitch
• PNC Equity and Primus Venture Partners complete DecisionQuest disposition
• PNC Equity, Primus Venture Partners acquire DecisionQuest , (2009)
• PolyOne acquires GLS , (2009)
• PolyOne completes add-on offering of $80 million of Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering , (2009)
• PolyOne Corp acquires interest in DH Compounding , (2009)
• PolyOne issues $200 million of 8.875% Senior Notes in Rule 144A & Regulation S offering , (2009)
• PolyOne issues $300 million of 10-5/8% Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• PolyOne issues $360 million of 7.375% Senior Notes in public offering , (2010)
• PolyOne prevails in AAA arbitration seeking rescission and dissolution of $150 million joint venture , (2009)
• PolyOne repurchases $257.1 million of Senior Notes in tender offer
• PolyOne seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• PolyOne sells 50% ownership interest in SunBelt Chlor Alkali Partnership to Olin Corporation for $175 million
• PolyOne sells 51% interest in Techmer to TPM Holdings
• PolyOne sells Elastomers and Performance Additives business
• PolyOne sells interest in Oxy Vinyls to Occidental Chemical Corp , (2009)
• PolyOne sells Lincoln & Southern Railroad , (2009)
• PolyOne to acquire ColorMatrix Group for $486 million , (2011)
• Port Huron Hospital forms IT contract with Superior Consultant Company , (2009)
• Portfolio company of Black Canyon Capital acquires assets of Titan Wake , (2009)
• Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan successfully defends historic $43.1 billion hostile takeover bid , (2010)
• Power Packaging sells Power Logistics and Power Europe to Exel
• Prairie Material Sales acquired by Votorantim Cimentos North America , (2009)
• Pratt & Whitney develops patent portfolio for jet engine systems , (2009)
• Pratt-Read refinances debt
• Pratt-Read sells and leases back Pennsylvania industrial facility , (2009)
• Precision Partners completes a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $100 million of Senior Subordinated Notes
• Pregnancy center settles with insurance company over water heater explosion
• Premier Farnell seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Premier Farnell sells Kent Automotive and Premier Industrial to Lawson Products
• Presbyterian Healthcare obtains affirmance of district court's decision to dismiss whistleblower claims under FFCA , (2009)
• Primus Capital acquires G2 Web Services
• Primus Capital acquires Healthcare Management Systems , (2009)
• Primus Capital acquires MedHost , (2010)
• Primus Capital acquires minority stake in Refresh Holdings d/b/a SterilMed , (2010)
• Primus Capital acquires Vendormate
• Primus Capital Fund defends against allegations of unfair trade practice and conspiracy , (2009)
• Primus Capital invests again in Community Education Centers , (2009)
• Primus Capital invests in Community Education Centers
• Primus Capital invests in Laboratory Partners , (2009)
• Primus Capital invests in PartsSource , (2009)
• Primus Capital invests in PathGroup and Associated Pathologists , (2010)
• Primus Capital re-invests in AxioMed Spine , (2010)
• Primus Capital sells minority interest in Passport Holding , (2009)
• Primus Venture acquires Focus Receivables Management
• Primus Venture acquires Universal Tax Systems , (2009)
• Primus Venture closes $25 million loans
• Primus Venture forms $285 million venture capital fund , (2009)
• Primus Venture invests in AxioMed Spine , (2009)
• Primus Venture invests in Cleveland Unlimited
• Primus Venture invests in Encore Legal Solutions
• Prisoner granted writ of habeas corpus
• Prisoner obtained reversal of federal criminal sentence under plain error standard , (2004)
• Prisoner represented on appeal of federal criminal sentence before the 6th Circuit , (2000)
• Prisoner represented on ineffective assistance of counsel claim in Sixth Circuit , (2006)
• Prisoner's Section 2255 petition reversed and remanded by district court , (2005)
• Private equity fund invests in and provides subordinated credit facility to railroad logistic company , (2010)
• ProBio and Univ. of Hawaii establish patent portfolio for novel animal cloning technique , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble acquires HDS Cosmetics Lab
• Procter & Gamble establishes global patent portfolio for enzyme-containing disposable diapers
• Procter & Gamble invests in MDVIP , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble acquired Natura Pet Products , (2010)
• Procter & Gamble and Teva Pharmaceutical form consumer health care partnership , (2011)
• Procter & Gamble defends against patent infringement claims relating to tooth bleaching products , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble divests its Folgers coffee business for $3.3 billion , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble divests its Pringles snacks business to The Kellogg Company for $2.7 billion , (2012)
• Procter & Gamble enforces trademark rights over foreign imports , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble files patent infringement claims against Paragon Trade Brands during chapter 11 proceeding , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble maintains win in patent infringement suit regarding Always and Tampax feminine products , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble prevails in patent infringement action involving razors , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble prevails in patent infringement case involving Crest Whitestrips , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble pursues trademark infringement charges related to personal care products , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble resolves patent dispute with Asher over toothbrush technology , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble resolves patent infringement dispute over fabric fresheners , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble sells juice-based drink businesses to J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble sells perpetual licensing of Braun brand for use in household small appliances to De' Longhi , (2012)
• Procter & Gamble settles favorably in patent infringement action involving diaper fastening system , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble settles favorably in series of patent infringement suits against Unilever involving detergent products , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble settles patent infringement dispute with SC Johnson over fabric refresher product , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble succeeds in patent dispute against Clorox involving multiodor spray treatment product , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble successfully appeals BPAI decision to Federal Circuit , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble wins on cutting edge discovery issues in the U.S. to suit up for foreign patent disputes over disposable training pants , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble battles Playtex over claims of patent infringement for feminine protection products , (2009)
• Procter & Gamble voluntarily dismissed from false patent marking suit involving dental floss
• Professional sports team conducts internal investigation into conduct of management team , (2009)
• Progressive defends against FLSA collective action challenging exempt status of classification of Special Investigators
• Progressive Plastics completes sale to Irving Place Capital
• Property and casualty insurance company obtains declination of all possible actions in claims-handling investigation , (2009)
• Prudential Securities prevails in appeal of punitive damages awarded by Ohio jury in securities law case , (2009)
• PSEG wins dismissal of suit seeking return to customers "stranded costs" recovered as part of electric industry deregulation , (2009)
• Public company represented in federal and state ethics inquiry
• Public construction company obtains termination of SEC investigation
• Public retail company obtains declination of action by SEC after investigation of the company and its audit committee , (2009)
• Public utility company Board of Directors conducts internal investigation , (2009)
• Purina Mills acquired by Land O'Lakes, Inc , (2009)
• Purina Mills files for chapter 11 , (2009)
• QBE Insurance issues $550 million of Capital Securities in Regulation S offering , (2009)
• QBE Insurance issues £873 million of LYONs in Rule 144A offering , (2009)
• Quantal International acquires Bullrun Financial
• Quantum Health Resources obtains summary judgment in shareholder class action
• Questor Management Company acquires controlling interest in GeoLogistics Corporation
• Quigo Technologies is acquired by AOL , (2009)
• R.H. Donnelley acquires Dex Media , (2009)
• R.H. Donnelley acquires SBC Communications' directory publishing business , (2009)
• R.H. Donnelley acquires Sprint Corporation's directory publishing business
• R.H. Donnelley completed Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $1 billion of Series A-4 Senior Notes
• R.H. Donnelley completes debt tender offer of $600 million of Senior Subordinated Notes
• R.H. Donnelley completes Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $500 million of Series A-4 Senior Notes
• R.H. Donnelley issues $1.1 billion of Common Stock in resale public offering upon completion of the Dex Media acquisition
• R.H. Donnelley issues $150 million of Senior Subordinated Notes in a debt tender offer
• R.H. Donnelley issues $200 million of Convertible Preferred Stock and Warrants in a private placement
• R.H. Donnelley issues $300 million of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• R.H. Donnelley issues $925 million of Senior Notes and Senior Subordinated Notes in a Rule 144A & Regulation S offering
• R.H. Donnelley repurchases $337 of Convertible Preferred Stock
• R.J. Reynolds challenges claims of privilege and protection based on compelled disclosure , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defeats certification of Minnesota class action seeking smoking-cessation and medical-monitoring programs , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defends class action consumer fraud case filed in St. Louis, Missouri , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defends Illinois consumer class action alleging fraud in the marketing of "light" cigarettes , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defends massive RICO case brought by U.S. government against tobacco manufacturers , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defends putative class action consumer fraud case in Louisiana court , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defends putative class action consumer fraud case in Palm Beach, Florida , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds defends vending machine operator antitrust litigation , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds forms joint venture, R.J. Reynolds-Gallaher International
• R.J. Reynolds is dismissed from first smoking and health case to be tried in Queens , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains affirmation of defense jury verdict on appeal , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains decision denying statewide class certification in Washington case involving smokers of light cigarettes , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains defense verdict in cigarette product liability case filed in Louisiana , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains defense verdict in second smoking and health case tried in New York City , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains defense verdict on all claims in St. Louis jury trial , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of all claims in individual smoking and health lawsuit in Sacramento, California , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of case on summary judgment , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of claims in Rhode Island , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of class action in one of first putative class action cases alleging consumer fraud
• R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of Seattle individual smoking and health lawsuit , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains first defense verdict in favor of tobacco companies in California since 1985 , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains NJ court ruling in smoking and health case that RICO not applicable to personal injury claims , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains protective order in connection with SEC subpoena
• R.J. Reynolds obtains reversal of district court's class certification order , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains stipulated dismissal with prejudice of smoking and health case in the District Court of the Navajo Nation , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains summary judgment and dismissal of claims , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains summary judgment and dismissal of plaintiff's complaint
• R.J. Reynolds obtains summary judgment in 40-count wrongful death action , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains summary judgment in Minnesota class action involving "lights" cigarettes , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains summary judgment in product liability and wrongful death case filed in Louisiana , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains summary judgment in Rhode Island product liability action , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains voluntary dismissal of case filed in New York Superior Court , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains voluntary dismissal of Louisiana smoking and health case after extensive discovery , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains voluntary dismissal of Louisiana smoking and health case after extensive discovery , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds obtains voluntary dismissal of smoking and health action in Louisiana federal court after extensive discovery , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds participates in OSHA hearings on proposed national regulations for smoking in the workplace , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds prevails in challenge to largest "Engle progeny" judgment , (2012)
• R.J. Reynolds prevails in closely watched emphysema-related Florida lawsuit , (2011)
• R.J. Reynolds prevails in decertifying statewide class action of former and current Florida smokers , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds prevails in first smoking and health case tried in New York , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds prevails in jury trial brought by smoker's widower , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds prevails on removal issue due to fraudulently joined parties , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds pursues several trademark disputes over exclusive rights to use word PLEASURE in connection with tobacco products , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds receives voluntary dismissal on eve of trial from Brooklyn smoking and health case , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds resolves Medicaid recoupment action filed by State of Florida against major cigarette manufacturers , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds secures the industry's first defense verdict in Gelep "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2011)
• R.J. Reynolds settles health-care cost recovery action brought by the state of Minnesota , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds settles State of Washington Medicaid recoupment action against major cigarette manufacturers , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds successfully defends against individual smoking and health lawsuit in Jacksonville, Florida , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds successfully defends California antitrust challenge to Master Settlement Agreement , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco combines with BAT's Brown & Williamson to form Reynolds American in $10 billion deal , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco defends Robinson-Patman antitrust litigation involving direct-to-consumer discounts , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco summary judgment against discount stores' antitrust suit is affirmed by Seventh Circuit , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco summary judgment in Tennessee price discrimination case by cigarette wholesalers is affirmed by Sixth Circuit , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds wins 11th Circuit case ending Alabama smoking and health litigation , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds wins complete defense verdict in Karbiwnyk tobacco liability case , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds wins defense verdict and affirmation on appeal , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds wins defense verdict in Indiana individual smoking and health lawsuit alleging secondhand smoke exposure , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds wins dismissal of smoking and health action filed in the District of Arizona , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Budnick "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Campbell "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Frazier "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Hargroves trial , (2011)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Junious "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2011)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Pickett "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2012)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Rohr "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2010)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in Weick "Engle progeny" lawsuit , (2011)
• R.J. Reynolds wins jury verdict in first smoking and health case tried in Manhattan , (2009)
• R.J. Reynolds wins summary judgment and dismissal of claims in product liability and wrongful death case , (2009)
• Radio technology developer obtains credit facilities
• Ranger Governance participates in proxy solicitation
• Ranpak acquired by First Atlantic Capital
• Ranpak initiates patent infringement suit against NaturEmbal involving cushioning dunnage conversion machines , (2009)
• Raymond Industrial wins motion to dismiss in breadmaker product liability case , (2009)
• Raymond James acquires Sirchie Fingerprint
• RBS Citizens and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania defend against three putative class actions , (2012)
• RBS successfully defends fraud claims brought by RZB Bank
• RE/MAX files antitrust claim to end exclusionary practices in Northeast Ohio , (2009)
• RE/MAX franchisor defends against tort case arising out of auto accident involving franchisee's sales associate , (2009)
• RE/MAX International and its franchisees press for enforcement of antitrust settlement , (2009)
• RE/MAX International defends franchisee's wrongful termination suit , (2009)
• RE/MAX resolves breach of contract and trademark infringement dispute with franchise , (2009)
• RE/MAX settles favorably in unfair competition and breach of franchise agreement case , (2009)
• RE/MAX wins injunctive relief in trademark infringement suit , (2009)
• RE/MAX's claims against LendingTree for trademark infringement result in favorable settlement , (2009)
• Reader's Digest issues $300 million of Senior Notes in debt tender offer , (2009)
• Reader's Digest completes $2.0 billion sale to Ripplewood investor group , (2009)
• Reitter & Schefenacker and Schefenacker Vision Systems launch patent infringement suit over automotive rear view mirrors
• Reitter & Schefenacker prevails in patent infringement cases involving rearview mirror technology
• Reitter & Schefenacker settles favorably in nullity proceedings brought in Germany involving rear view mirror patents
• Reitter & Schefenacker resolve patent dispute involving automotive rear view mirrors , (2009)
• Renal Solutions develops patent portfolio for hemodialysis machinery and techniques , (2009)
• Renal Solutions raises $16.5 million in Series B round , (2009)
• Renters, lawyers benefit from unusual volunteer program at Cleveland Housing Court
• Research In Motion asserts breach of contract in binding arbitration , (2009)
• Research In Motion obtains stay of injunction following BlackBerry patent challenge
• Research scientists defend allegations of possible defense contractor fraud , (2009)
• Residence restrictions to sex offenders do not apply to client who had been convicted long before those restrictions were enacted , (2009)
• Resilience Capital acquires business unit of Andrew Corporation , (2009)
• Resilience Capital acquires Weaber , (2012)
• Resilience Capital and Linsalata Capital acquire certain assets of Lund International
• Resilience Capital forms leveraged buyout fund , (2009)
• Resilience Capital makes minority investment in Completion Industrial Minerals
• Resilience Capital merges portfolio company with Durakon Industries , (2009)
• Resilience Capital portfolio company acquires The XLO Group , (2009)
• Resilience Capital sells AxleTech International
• Resilience Capital sells business unit of ASC Signal Corporation , (2009)
• Resilience Capital sells Composite Technologies of America
• Resilience Capital sells Steel Parts Manufacturing to Monomoy Capital
• Restaurants and other businesses in Franklin County, Ohio mount successful challenge to smoking ban , (2009)
• Revlon establishes patent portfolio for cosmetic products
• Reynolds American acquires Conwood Tobacco Companies for $3.5 billion , (2009)
• Reynolds American seeks advice on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Reynolds American sells Lane, Limited to Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S (STG) for $205 million , (2011)
• RHJ International sells its 77.9% ownership of Niles Co. to Valeo for ¥15.4 billion (€135 million) , (2011)
• RightThing completes sale to ADP
• RIM builds global patent portfolio for wireless device and wireless network technologies , (2009)
• RIM pursues breach of contract claim against U.S. Robotics , (2009)
• RIM resolves IP infringement dispute involving mobile device technology
• RIM wins summary judgment of noninfringement involving BlackBerry®'s power generating circuit
• Rite Aid obtains directed verdict in criminal trial , (2009)
• Rite Aid successfully appeals permanent injunction ordering store removal due to alleged easement violation , (2009)
• Riverside acquires A&C , (2009)
• Riverside acquires ActivStyle , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Adventures in Advertising in MBO
• Riverside acquires American Home Inspectors
• Riverside acquires American Hospice Management , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Anitox
• Riverside acquires assets of JSL Communications , (2009)
• Riverside acquires assets of LocalTel Yellow Pages , (2009)
• Riverside acquires ATI Enterprises , (2009)
• Riverside acquires AutomationSolutions companies
• Riverside acquires Avatar International
• Riverside acquires BioSan Laboratories
• Riverside acquires Blue Sky
• Riverside acquires BrandMuscle , (2012)
• Riverside acquires business unit of Baldor Electric Company , (2009)
• Riverside acquires business unit of GE
• Riverside acquires Camelot Education
• Riverside acquires Capital Precision , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Centiv Services
• Riverside acquires Central Power Products , (2009)
• Riverside acquires certain assets of "GoToAid" business of Jaargon
• Riverside acquires certain assets of Alliance1
• Riverside acquires certain assets of three weight loss centers , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Clayton Group Services , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Coeur , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Commonwealth Laminating & Coating
• Riverside acquires CPASiteSolutions
• Riverside acquires Crisis Prevention Institute
• Riverside acquires DentalPlans.com , (2012)
• Riverside acquires Digital Technology International , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Drugtest, Inc. d/b/a DISA, Inc. , (2011)
• Riverside acquires DuBois Chemicals , (2009)
• Riverside acquires EagleOne Logistics , (2012)
• Riverside acquires Eemax and Home Heating Products , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Electro-Mec , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Employment Law Training
• Riverside acquires ENTRIX
• Riverside acquires Express Courier
• Riverside acquires FairPay Solutions , (2009)
• Riverside acquires FLA Orthopedics , (2009)
• Riverside acquires G&H Wire Company , (2011)
• Riverside acquires Genetic Testing Institute , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Global Compliance Services , (2012)
• Riverside acquires Green Glen Produce
• Riverside acquires GreenLine Foods
• Riverside acquires Hardware Resources , (2009)
• Riverside acquires HEALTHCAREfirst , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Herb Thyme
• Riverside acquires Integrated Motion
• Riverside acquires International Junior Golf Tour and Education Services
• Riverside acquires ITEL , (2009)
• Riverside acquires JC Whitney & Co. , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Junior Library Guild
• Riverside acquires Justrite Manufacturing
• Riverside acquires Keen Skills , (2009)
• Riverside acquires L-com , (2009)
• Riverside acquires limited liability company interests of Precision Wire Components , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Lumen Dynamics Group , (2010)
• Riverside acquires Mansell Group
• Riverside acquires Maverick Enterprises
• Riverside acquires Miller Claims Consulting , (2009)
• Riverside acquires parent companies of Polar Window of Canada
• Riverside acquires Perkins Products , (2010)
• Riverside acquires Physicians Pharmacy Alliance
• Riverside acquires portfolio company American Professional Bracing , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Positive Options
• Riverside acquires PROFITsystems
• Riverside acquires QualServ , (2009)
• Riverside acquires RCS Management , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Sencore , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Senior Care Services and Rely Medical Supply , (2009)
• Riverside acquires South Texas Vocational Technical Institute
• Riverside acquires SportCourt in bankruptcy buyout , (2009)
• Riverside acquires SPX Air Filtration Limited
• Riverside acquires Stoffel Seals , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Sunless , (2011)
• Riverside acquires Sunrise Windows , (2011)
• Riverside acquires Taylor Rafferty Associates , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Tensator Group , (2009)
• Riverside acquires The Herbal Garden , (2008)
• Riverside acquires The Monarch Group , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Thibaut , (2009)
• Riverside acquires TradeOne Marketing
• Riverside acquires TrainingPro
• Riverside acquires TRICO TCWIND , (2009)
• Riverside acquires UltraVolt and Galluppi Associates , (2009)
• Riverside acquires United Central Industrial Supply
• Riverside acquires Universal Air Filter
• Riverside acquires Water-Jel Technologies , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Welltec in MBO
• Riverside acquires WhatCounts
• Riverside acquires WorkPlace Media
• Riverside acquires YourMembership.com
• Riverside amends credit facility of portfolio company for acquisition financing of Bidco
• Riverside Company acquires Baby Jogger , (2012)
• Riverside completes sale of ATI Holding Company to BC Partners , (2010)
• Riverside completes sale of Crisis Prevention to Brockway Moran
• Riverside completes sale of EM Test Group to AMETEK
• Riverside completes sale of ENTRIX to Cardno , (2010)
• Riverside completes sale of Experient Holding Company to Maritz Holdings , (2012)
• Riverside completes sale of GreenLine Foods to Apio , (2012)
• Riverside completes sale of GTI Diagnostics to Gen-Probe , (2011)
• Riverside completes sale of Hardware Resources to Harbour Group , (2010)
• Riverside completes sale of Justrite Manufacturing to Baird Capital
• Riverside completes sale of Marvini Fresh Herbs
• Riverside completes sale of Media Source to RLJ , (2011)
• Riverside completes sale of Stoffel Seals to Brammall, a subsidiary of Tyden Group Holdings Corporation , (2010)
• Riverside completes sale of SunTek Holding
• Riverside completes sale of The Dwyer Group to TZP Group
• Riverside completes sale of Veritext Holding to Investcorp International
• Riverside completes sale of Whitney Automotive to U.S. Auto Parts Network
• Riverside completes take private acquisition of The Dwyer Group , (2009)
• Riverside develops strategic alliance with CapRock Services and Halliburton , (2009)
• Riverside finances acquisition of majority interest in It's Just Lunch
• Riverside finances AEC and Bargman acquisitions
• Riverside finances Nordco acquisition
• Riverside forms $250 million leveraged buyout fund
• Riverside forms $61 million European fund LBO , (2009)
• Riverside forms $750 million LBO fund , (2009)
• Riverside forms Riverside Europe Fund II , (2009)
• Riverside invests in PharmMD Solutions, LLC
• Riverside negotiates acquisition of union facility
• Riverside obtains financing for portfolio company Insurance Claims Management , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Advocate Medical Services and St. Andrew's Medical Supply , (2010)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires assets of Dementia Care Specialists , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires assets of Hidden Hitch companies , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires bankruptcy claims management business of Donlin, Recano & Co. and DRX Distribution Management
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Biological Research Associates
• Riverside portfolio company acquires business unit from Frauenthal Keramik
• Riverside portfolio company acquires capital stock of The Horn Book , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires CareFacts Information Systems , (2011)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires certain assets of CFM Corporation and related subsidiaries
• Riverside portfolio company acquires equity interests of EMP Canada Services and Adanac College of Emergency Management Programs
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Galaxy Associates , (2012)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Home Wellness
• Riverside portfolio company acquires HR Solutions International
• Riverside portfolio company acquires J.E.R. Overhaul
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Lewis Computer Services , (2010)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Medaes Holdings , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Mitco , (2011)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Niche Software Systems
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Ostomy Center ICU Company
• Riverside portfolio company acquires ProSchools, Inc.
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Specialized Medical Services , (2012)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires three branded publications from subsidiary of Reed Elsevier , (2010)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Triune , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires Water Resource Solutions
• Riverside portfolio company ActivStyle refinances senior and subordinated debt , (2010)
• Riverside portfolio company ActivStyle refinances senior debt , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company Adventures in Advertising refinances secured revolving facility
• Riverside portfolio company finances acquisition of HammerBlow
• Riverside provides intercompany loan to Porcelain Products
• Riverside pursues false designation of origin and false advertising charges against McKenzie Goldsten relating to web site content theft , (2009)
• Riverside receives consultation regarding independent contractor issues , (2009)
• Riverside refinances credit facilities and loans of Express Courier
• Riverside refinances debt of ACT Labs
• Riverside reviews environmental issues concerning various acquisitions and dispositions
• Riverside seeks advice about independent contractor issues , (2009)
• Riverside sells ACT Test Panels to Talon
• Riverside sells Axiom to Transtar Industries , (2009)
• Riverside sells Beacon Holdings to Atlas Copco
• Riverside sells business unit of ACT Laboratories
• Riverside sells business unit of American Electronic Components to Siemens
• Riverside sells Clayton Group Services to U.S. Laboratories , (2009)
• Riverside sells Delta Petroleum to Grief , (2009)
• Riverside sells DHD Healthcare to Smiths Group , (2009)
• Riverside sells Dynojet Research to Graham Partners , (2009)
• Riverside sells FLA Orthopedics to BSN Medical , (2009)
• Riverside sells HammerBlow Towing to TriMas , (2009)
• Riverside sells Moss to Century Park Capital , (2009)
• Riverside sells Nordco to OMERS Private Equity , (2009)
• Riverside sells NPC to American Capital
• Riverside sells PPC Insulators to Seves
• Riverside sells Production Control Services to Fidelity Capital , (2009)
• Riverside sells United Central Industrial Supply to American Securities Capital
• Riverside sells Universal Air Filter Company to Thompson Street Capital
• Riverside sells Vitex Packaging to Kirtland Capital , (2009)
• Riverside simultaneously acquires D.F. King and M Communications , (2009)
• RMI Titanium Company adopts shareholders' right plan , (2009)
• Roadway acquires Arnold Industries , (2009)
• Roadway activates $100 million incremental credit facility
• Roadway Corp. sells Arnold Industries' logistics business
• Roadway Corporation acquired by Yellow Corporation , (2009)
• Roadway defends against contribution claims at BEMS Landfill in New Jersey
• Roadway Express acquires real estate at auction
• Roadway Express defends against sexual harassment allegations , (2009)
• Roadway Express is successful against retaliatory discharge claim based on safety complaints under the STAA , (2009)
• Roadway Express negotiates favorable resolution in nationwide EEOC retaliation claim , (2009)
• Roadway Express prevails and recovers costs in sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit , (2009)
• Roadway Express prevails in confidential arbitration against its insurer and third-party administrator of liability and workers' compensation claims , (2009)
• Roadway Express prevails in litigation alleging civil conspiracy, fraud and breach of collective bargaining agreement , (2009)
• Roadway Express prevails in sex discrimination and unlawful treatment lawsuit , (2009)
• Roadway Express prevails in wage and hour action seeking overtime pay under FLSA and Oregon laws , (2009)
• Roadway Express receives successful resolution to OFCCP corporate management review
• Roadway Express securitizes trade receivables , (2009)
• Roadway Express wins dismissal in wrongful discharge and breach of employment contract action
• Roadway Express wins dismissal of litigation claiming breach of joint venture agreement , (2009)
• Roadway Express wins dismissal on summary judgment in discrimination, retaliation and harassment lawsuit , (2009)
• Roadway Express wins Sixth Circuit appeal in unjust discharge case , (2009)
• Roadway issues $225 million of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
• Roadway purchases equity shares in a private placement by Integres Global Logistics, Inc.
• Roadway resolves environmental responsibility for Lancaster Battery Superfund site
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame obtains TRO against Jewish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in trademark case
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame wins favorable summary judgment in infringement case involving use of photographs
• RockWood Equity acquires certain assets of Minco Technology Labs , (2010)
• RockWood Equity acquires certain assets of RAD Electronics , (2009)
• RockWood Equity and Sawdust Management invest in Entronix
• RockWood Equity portfolio company completes disposition of WEBB Enterprises
• RockWood Equity sells Hunter Defense Technologies to Behrman Capital , (2009)
• Ropart Asset Management completes sale of ViSalus Holdings to Blyth
• Rotek seeks counsel on qualified retirement benefits , (2009)
• Rotek successfully addresses environmental enforcement action involving discharge of industrial wastewater
• RoundTable Healthcare Partners acquires Confab Laboratories , (2011)
• RoundTable Healthcare Partners completes sale of portfolio company Clinical Innovations to The Pritzker Group
• RoundTable Healthcare Partners portfolio company acquires several product lines from GeneraMedix
• Royal Bank of Scotland defends action arising out of collapse of Enron , (2009)
• Royal Bank of Scotland defends proceeding brought by Enron estate , (2009)
• RPM International acquires interest in Kemrock , (2009)
• RPM International acquires Star Maling , (2009)
• RPM International increases stake in Kemrock Industries
• Rubbermaid adopts shareholders' rights plan , (2009)
• Rubbermaid merges with Newell Companies
• Ryder System acquires General Car and Truck Leasing System
• Ryder System acquires Ruan Leasing Company
• Ryder Truck defends against breach of contract action , (2009)
• Safelite Glass wins dismissal of all claims by putative classes and auto glass shops under associational standing theory seeking to revamp auto glass repair and replacement industry , (2009)
• Safelite Glass wins summary judgment in unfair competition action against call center operations , (2009)
• SanDisk asserts patent over flash memory systems before the ITC , (2009)
• SanDisk Corp acquires Matrix Semiconductor for $250 million
• SanDisk prevails in patent infringement case involving integrated circuit chips , (2009)
• Sandler O'Neill & Partners, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Janney Montgomery Scott, and Raymond James complete $90 million of Common Shares in public offering by First Financial Bancorp , (2009)
• Sandoz defends brand name prescription drugs antitrust litigation , (2009)
• sanofi-aventis wins unanimous jury verdict in Arava antitrust litigation , (2009)
• SAP acquires Sybase for $5.8 billion , (2010)
• SAP AG acquires Virsa Systems
• Saudi Basic Industries defends breach of contract and tort action governed by Saudi Arabian law in Delaware courts and Supreme Court , (2009)
• Saudi Basic Industries successfully appeals claim that nuclear reactor technology was misappropriated , (2009)
• Sautin and Johansen wins dismissal of case on forum non conveniens grounds , (2009)
• School devoted to training of developmentally disabled is advised regarding relocation and corporate governance issues , (2007)
• Schwarz Pharma defends against patent infringement suit, prosecutes antitrust counterclaims involving GlycoLax® , (2009)
• Science and Technology invests in Avantec Technologies , (2009)
• SciQuest obtains credit facilities
• Scott Fetzer asserts trademark infringement action against House of Vacuums relating to vacuum cleaners , (2009)
• Scott Fetzer Co. negotiates IP licenses for technology relating to air compressors
• Scott Fetzer enforces IP rights for Kirby division trademarks , (2009)
• Scott Fetzer establishes global patent portfolio for technologies including valves, pumps, compressors, motors, vacuums, and pneumatic power tools , (2009)
• Scott Fetzer gets antitrust counterclaims tossed in trademark infringement action
• Scott Fetzer obtains permanent injunctive relief in trademark litigation
• Scott Fetzer obtains permanent injunctive relief in trademark litigation
• Scott Fetzer opposes Graco's trademark application to register the color blue , (2010)
• Scott Fetzer prevails in trademark infringement matter
• Scott Fetzer prosecutes numerous infringement actions relating to "KIRBY" trademark , (2009)
• Scott Fetzer seeks advice regarding the design, administration and compliance of qualified retirement plans, 401(k) plans and other employee benefit plans , (2010)
• Scott Fetzer settles favorably in patent infringement case , (2009)
• Scott Fetzer settles favorably in trademark infringement suit involving vacuum cleaners , (2009)
• Scott Fetzer settles favorably trademark infringement suit involving vacuum cleaners
• Scott Fetzer wins temporary restraining order and permanent injunctive relief in trademark infringement suit , (2009)
• Scrap metal dealer defends DOJ antitrust investigation , (2009)
• Seaman Furniture defends action filed by minority shareholders , (2009)
• Selman acquires certain assets of Life & Health Insurance Business from PICA Group Services
• Seneca Investments acquires AGENCY.com , (2009)
• Senior executives of public business development company represented in SEC Enforcement Division investigation
• Seton House International sells Public Safety Equipment , (2009)
• ShareThis issues shares in Series A round , (2009)
• ShareThis raises $15 million in Series B round , (2009)
• Sharp successfully litigates against Samsung in patent infringement disputes before the ITC involving LCD technology , (2009)
• Shelly Company acquired by Oldcastle, Inc. , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams acquires Becker Acroma Industrial Wood Coatings from AB Wilh. Becker, Sweden , (2010)
• Sherwin-Williams adopts a shareholders' rights plan , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams adopts new equity and performance incentive plan , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams defends against Illinois statewide class action for medical monitoring costs for lead poisoning allegedly due to ingestion of lead paint , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams defends against patent infringement action for automotive paint pen
• Sherwin-Williams defends lead paint actions brought by California cities and counties , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams defends shareholder derivative action stet
• Sherwin-Williams issues $500 million of Senior Notes in public offering , (2010)
• Sherwin-Williams obtains $650 million credit facility , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams obtains defense verdict in Wisconsin case alleging personal injuries from lead pigment , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams prevails in landmark public nuisance suit over lead pigment before Rhode Island Supreme Court , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams pursues declaratory judgment action for insurance coverage of public nuisance litigation against lead pigment manufacturers , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams settles favorably in patent infringement suit involving paint can
• Sherwin-Williams successfully defends against City of Toledo's public nuisance and related tort claims , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams successfully defends judgment in lead paint poisoning case on appeal , (2009)
• Sherwin-Williams wins permanent injunctive relief and restraining order in trademark infringement suit
• Sherwin-Williams wins preliminary injunction decision in first case invalidating contingency fee agreement on due process grounds , (2009)
• Sidel acquires minority stake in Pressco Technology
• Sirius XM resolves antitrust class action litigation related to 2008 merger
• Sixth Circuit applies equitable tolling to state prisoner , (2006)
• Sky Financial Group acquires Union Federal Bank for $330 million , (2009)
• Skybus Airlines places Series B stock , (2009)
• Slater Steel U.S. and Canadian affiliates file for chapter 11
• Smart Bottle develops global patent portfolio for green technology beverage bottles , (2010)
• Smith Corona's special committees' board of directors sells controlling interest to Pubco Corp. , (2009)
• Smuckers assumes $200 million of EuroNotes
• Smuckers enters into credit agreement
• Smuckers issues $100 million of notes
• SocGen is agent to a syndicate of lenders
• Société Générale refinances NHL team , (2009)
• Sodexo obtains Third Circuit reversal in Robinson-Patman Act case , (2009)
• Soft drink bottler not charged after antitrust grand jury investigation , (2009)
• Soin International acquires Sundance Products , (2009)
• Solectron California successfully defends right to cancel purchase order for electronic components , (2009)
• SolutionSet acquired by Haggin Marketing , (2009)
• Soverain Software files patent infringement action against CDW
• Special Committee of Board of Directors of EXCO Resources advised in proposed $4.4 billion offer from Douglas H. Miller to purchase outstanding shares of stock , (2011)
• Special Committee of Board of Directors of Hawk Corporation advised in $413 million acquisition by Carlisle Companies , (2010)
• Special Committee of Board of Directors represented in response to shareholder demand letter arising out of FDA inspections
• Specialty Foods bondholder committee formed , (2009)
• Specialty metals manufacturer responds to multiple Clean Air Act information requests , (2009)
• Specialty resins manufacturer completes $70 million accounts receivable sale transaction , (2009)
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $100 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $100 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $103.8 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $107 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $33.3 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $66 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer contributes $84.9 million accounts receivable to subsidiary
• Specialty resins manufacturer sells $26 million accounts receivables , (2009)
• Specialty resins manufacturer sells $27 million accounts receivables , (2009)
• Spectrum adds Russell Hobbs to its portfolio to create $3 billion global consumer products company , (2010)
• Spectrum Orthopedics obtains favorable settlement in lease dispute , (2009)
• SpectRx sells Bilicheck division , (2009)
• Spinal Concepts favorably resolves patent infringement action regarding anterior cervical plate spinal implant devices , (2009)
• Sponsorship of Martin Luther King Jr., High School Career Campus , (2008)
• Springfield Redevelopment redevelops brownfield through a grant from the Clean Ohio Fund
• Sprint Nextel acquires FCC Licenses from NY3G Partnership , (2009)
• Sprint Nextel acquires outstanding shares of Nextel Partners' Class A common stock for $7.5 billion
• Sprint Nextel defends against claims of patent infringement for location based and E911services
• Sprint Nextel defends against patent infringement claims over its voice data processing in cellular telephones , (2009)
• Sprint Nextel issues $2 billion of Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering , (2012)
• Sprint Nextel issues $4 billion of Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering , (2011)
• Sprint Nextel obtains complete defense verdict on all claims in litigation alleging that the Sprint Nextel merger resulted in a breach of contract , (2009)
• Sprint Nextel prevails in action alleging violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
• Sprint Nextel resolves patent dispute with Clear With Computers over GPS vehicle tracking system and method , (2009)
• Sprint Nextel resolves patent dispute with Netcraft relating to its Internet billing methods , (2009)
• Sprint Nextel resolves patent dispute with Telematics over GPS vehicle tracking system and method
• Sprint Nextel sells 3,300 cell towers to TowerCo for $670 million
• Sprint resolves patent infringement dispute over real-time vehicle guidance system
• St. Elizabeth Health Center successfully resolves employment-related litigation , (2009)
• St. Mary of the Woods files for chapter 11 , (2011)
• Stamco Division wins summary judgment in ERISA class action
• Standard Bank finances ethanol projects in U.S. , (2009)
• Stark develops $400 million Crocker Park in Westlake, Ohio
• Stark Enterprises negotiates $100 first million mortgage loan in connection with The Strip shopping center in Stark County, Ohio , (2009)
• Stark Enterprises receives financing for Phase 2 of Crocker Park mixed-use development , (2009)
• Stark Enterprises refinances Promenade of Westlake shopping center , (2009)
• Stark Enterprises refinances Shops of Fairlawn shopping center, and later negotiates significant loan restructuring with CMBS special servicer , (2009)
• Stark Enterprises refinances SOM Center , (2009)
• Stark Enterprises refinances West Market Plaza , (2009)
• Starwood Capital-led consortium restructures more than $300 million of debt in connection with overall recapitalization of Terranea Resort near Los Angeles, California , (2010)
• Steel container executive receives immunity in antitrust grand jury investigation , (2009)
• STERIS acquires FH Surgical SAS , (2009)
• STERIS acquires medical device sterilization division of Cosmed Group , (2009)
• STERIS acquires Sterion, Inc.
• STERIS forms strategic alliance with SterilTek , (2009)
• STERIS seeks employment advice about separation package, employment agreement in Malaysia and Singapore and Malaysian employee legislation , (2009)
• Sterling forms funds , (2009)
• Stern Advertising Holding acquires outstanding stock of Stern Advertising, Inc. from Omnicom
• Stern Advertising sold to Omnicom , (2009)
• Stonehenge Partners and Primus Venture Partners make preferred stock investment in Installed Business Products
• Stonehenge Partners forms Stonehenge Mezzanine Partners Fund in joint venture with Huntington , (2009)
• Strategic Value Partners refinances German properties
• Successful representation of a disabled senior citizen who sought to vacate a default judgment entered against him , (2009)
• Sulcus Computer resolves shareholder class action , (2009)
• Sumitomo Bakelite acquires Vyncolit , (2009)
• Sun Capital Partners acquires IMC Chemicals , (2009)
• Sun Capital Partners resolves environmental issues in Searles Valley Minerals acquisition
• SunPower acquires PowerLight for $332 million , (2009)
• SunPower and Total partner to create new global leader in solar industry with $1.4 billion tender offer , (2011)
• SunPower reclassifies shares into single class of Common Stock
• Symbol Technologies asserts five patents relating to optics and software for reading and decoding bar code symbologies in ITC investigation , (2009)
• Syrgis Performance sells H&S Kentucky Holdings , (2009)
• Systems for Today's Retailer pursues copyright and trade secret claim involving computer software
• T.M. Cobb Company acquires Craftmaster Manufacturing
• TCR negotiates construction loan for a 322-unit Washington apartment community
• TCR to construct 205-unit apartment complex in Seattle
• Teaching hospitals defend against Medicare fraud litigation involving non-FDA-approved devices , (2009)
• Team Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to counseling and training Cleveland youth, gets help in obtaining tax-exempt status
• Technautics and Marine Mechanical defend in software performance dispute
• TechTeam Global and its directors involved in putative shareholder class action
• TECT Aerospace develops international portfolio of patents for highly efficient turbine fan blades , (2010)
• Teleglobe closes replacement DIP facility
• Teleglobe is reorganized under chapter 11 , (2009)
• Teleglobe obtains $57 million DIP facility
• Teleglobe obtains Canadian DIP facility
• Teleglobe sells core voice and data business to Cerberus Capital Management and TenX Capital Partners
• Telegraph Hill invests in AltheaDx , (2009)
• Telegraph Hill re-invests in AltheaDx , (2010)
• Telxon wins reversal of $218 million trial verdict and new trial in breach of contract case involving development of new computer-based technology , (2009)
• Tenet Healthcare Corporation prevails in FTC and Missouri challenge of hospital merger , (2009)
• Tequila Herradura acquired by Brown-Forman for $776 million , (2009)
• Texas Industries favorably settles patent infringement action involving cement processing technology , (2009)
• Texas Instruments acquires National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion , (2011)
• Texas Instruments prevails in patent infringement dispute with Tessera relating to certain packages for semiconductor devices , (2009)
• Texas Instruments pursues patent infringement action against defendants over semiconductors , (2009)
• Texas Instruments resolves infringement dispute involving single-chip microprocessors
• Texas Instruments resolves patent dispute with Samsung and settles for $1.1 billion in royalties , (2009)
• Texas Instruments resolves patent infringement claims against Samsung over DRAM circuits and structures , (2009)
• Texas Instruments resolves patent infringement dispute involving DRAM chips , (2009)
• Texas Instruments resolves patent infringement dispute with Samsung over DRAMs , (2009)
• Texas Instruments resolves patent infringement suit involving microprocessors and microcontrollers
• Texas Instruments resolves series of disputes with Hyundai Electronics over semiconductor patents , (2009)
• Textron files antitrust counterclaim in patent litigation involving automobile lumbar supports , (2009)
• Textron settles favorably in patent infringement litigation involving automotive lumbar seat support systems , (2009)
• Textron wins dismissal of ERISA case related to closed operations in north central Ohio , (2009)
• The 1990 Institute, which aids China by studying and resolving economic and social issues associated with its rapid development, collaborates with lawyers in multiple offices , (2009)
• The Christ Hospital resolves False Claims Act case , (2010)
• The Detroit Free Press defeats 10(j) injunction proceedings by the NLRB
• The High Throughput Experimentation Co. develops patent portfolio for combinatorial library synthesis, manipulation and analysis
• The Hygenic Corp. develops and protects global patent portfolio for therapeutic exercise apparatus
• The Kalimian Organization refinances first mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by 200+ unit luxury apartment building in Manhattan
• The Riverside Co. acquires Harmon AutoGlass
• The SAS Institute builds patent portfolio for database, data mining, and data warehousing software applications , (2009)
• The Timken Company acquires Turbo Engines
• The Timken Company disposes of automotive steering business , (2009)
• The Timken Company finances Torrington acquisition
• TheMarkets.com sells its research and estimates business to CapitalIQ
• Thermal management company obtains credit facility
• Thomas Kinkade Co. wins record breaking $1.7M in trademark infringement and cyberpiracy lawsuit
• Time obtains affirmance of dismissal of class action alleging fraud and false advertising , (2009)
• Timken acquires EXTEX , (2009)
• Timken acquires Philadelphia Gear for $200 million , (2011)
• Timken Company acquires aircraft component manufacturer The Purdy Corp. , (2009)
• Timken Company acquires Bearing Inspection , (2009)
• Timken Company acquires Boring Specialties , (2009)
• Timken Company acquires Torrington Division of Ingersoll-Rand Company , (2009)
• Timken Company adopts shareholders' rights plan , (2009)
• Timken Company forms joint venture with Japan's Sanyo Special Steel Co. Ltd. and Showa Seiko Co. Ltd
• Timken Company holds claim in Jernberg bankruptcy
• Timken Company sells Connecticut industrial facility , (2009)
• Timken Company sells stake in NSK Torrington Co. , (2009)
• Timken Company settles patent infringement suit involving alloy-plated bearings , (2009)
• Timken completes $250 million of 6.000% Senior Notes , (2009)
• Timken seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Timken sells Latrobe Steel , (2009)
• Timken sells needle roller bearings business to JTEKT , (2009)
• Timken wins federal district court jury trial on breach of contract claims against Robert Bosch LLC , (2009)
• Tippins defends antitrust litigation involving steel mill construction , (2009)
• Tobacco industry wins 2nd Circuit reversal of certification of 50 million member $800 billion class action , (2009)
• Tokyo Electron defends against breach of contract and trade secret claims resulting in case dismissal , (2009)
• Total Petrochemicals defends against misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of licensing agreements action relating to polyethylene manufacturing technology
• Toto establishes patent portfolio for surface coatings and fuel cells
• Townsend Group invests in various property funds
• Toy manufacturer cleared in DOJ resale price maintenance probe , (2009)
• Tradesmen International acquires Tradestar Construction Services
• Transamerica Business recovers claim in full , (2009)
• TransDigm Group acquires AmSafe Global Holdings from Berkshire Partners and Greenbriar Equity Group , (2012)
• TransDigm Group issues $1.55 billion aggregate principal amount of 7.75% Senior Notes in private offering and additional $50 million aggregate principal amount of 7.75% Senior Notes in follow-on private offering , (2011)
• Transmissions manufacturer successfully defends customs law investigation , (2009)
• Transpro merges with Modine Manufacturing , (2009)
• Transtar Industries acquired and recapitalized by Linsalata Capital Partners , (2009)
• Trek Diagnostic establishes global patent portfolio for medical diagnostic systems and devices , (2009)
• Tremco pursues action against vendor and consultant for defective software , (2009)
• Triarc Companies acquires Wendy's International for $2.3 billion , (2009)
• Triarc Companies defends shareholder action , (2009)
• Tribune Company appoints Special Board Committee , (2011)
• TruSeal successfully defends against dispute involving breach of license agreement for insulated glass system spacer technology , (2009)
• TRW defends action alleging breach of joint venture agreement , (2009)
• TRW defends against claim that merger with Northrop violated anti-assignment provisions of partnership agreement , (2009)
• TRW defends against claims brought by the federal government under the False Claims Act , (2009)
• TRW develops global patent portfolio for automotive technologies, including power steering and suspension systems, seat belts and airbag deployment systems
• TRW Inc. adopts shareholders' rights plan
• TRW prevails in patent infringement case involving inventions in hydraulic gerotor devices , (2009)
• TRW resolves obligations for cleanup of California TCE contamination site
• TRW seeks counsel on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• TRW settles patent infringement action relating to molded pistons in disc brake assembly , (2009)
• TRW acquired LucasVarity for $6.5 billion , (2009)
• TSG Consumer Partners acquires 50% interest of Alexia Foods , (2009)
• TSG Consumer Partners acquires 50% of Meguiar's , (2009)
• TSG Consumer Partners acquires Alterna
• TSG Consumer Partners acquires Pevonia and Medicalia
• TSG Consumer Partners sells PureOlogy Research to L'Oréal
• TSG recapitalizes portfolio company Yard House , (2009)
• Tultex Corporation liquidates its sporting business
• Tupperware resolves patent infringement case related to websites, marketing and inventory system , (2010)
• TWA and other major airlines defend against price-fixing litigation , (2009)
• TWA files for bankruptcy with $4 billion in debt , (2009)
• Twin Med obtains favorable settlement in contract dispute with nursing care facilities , (2009)
• Two organizations devoted to ending the cycle of abuse are merging, resulting in a premier agency in Northeast Ohio , (2012)
• U.K. employer enters into leasing agreements with U.S. employees , (2009)
• U.S. Air Force parts supplier resolves criminal and civil investigation resulting from a qui tam complaint , (2009)
• U.S. Industries seeks declaratory judgment that CGL insurers had duty to defend environmental claims , (2009)
• U.S. Industries settles action seeking to recover cost of environmental cleanup under the CERCLA , (2009)
• U.S. lubrication company seeks employment advice in regards to acquisition of European company , (2009)
• U.S. Supreme Court affirms parole challenges brought under federal civil rights law , (2009)
• U.S. Supreme Court refuses to reconsider death sentence in murder-for-hire case , (2009)
• UCA Holdings acquires turbine engine components unit of Textron , (2009)
• UCA Holdings obtains credit facility , (2009)
• UICI completes sale to Blackstone , (2009)
• Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation merges with Valero Energy , (2009)
• Uncle Waffles, Ltd. sells assets to J.M. Smucker LLC
• Unicom Corporation merges with PECO Energy , (2009)
• Union Club purchases parking lot and underground parking structure adjacent to existing facility
• United States Shoe Corp. defends against $1.4 billion solicited tender offer by Luxottica Group , (2009)
• United Taconite wins breach of warranty trial and is found blameless for drill accident , (2010)
• Universal Electronics and Maxim purchase Zilog universal remote control and secure transaction businesses , (2009)
• University Hospitals Health System outsources IT function , (2009)
• University Hospitals Health System performs clinical trials for pharma and medical device companies , (2009)
• University Hospitals of Cleveland establish global patent portfolio for medical devices , (2009)
• University Hospitals of Cleveland negotiates with private medical school for teaching agreement
• University Hospitals of Cleveland obtains dismissal of antitrust challenge involving resident matching program , (2009)
• University of Pittsburgh obtains dismissal of federal court class action on behalf of uninsured patients , (2009)
• USA Digital Radio merges with Lucent Digital Radio , (2009)
• USG Corp rights offering for $1.8 billion , (2009)
• USG Corporation in second restructuring
• USG Corporation wins landmark settlement , (2009)
• USG enters Chapter 11 bankruptcy , (2009)
• USI Insurance Services acquires assets of First Place Insurance Agency, Inc.
• USX Corporation defends shareholder class action
• Utica Realty Holdings obtains real estate financing , (2009)
• Venture Industries successfully resolves Michigan environmental agency's claims that paint cleaning solvents violated hazardous waste regulations
• Verizon California defeats class certification in California wage and hour class action
• Verizon defends against labor arbitrations involving contract administration and enforcement with the IBEW and CWA , (2009)
• Verizon Wireless defeats class certification in California wage and hour case , (2009)
• Verizon Wireless prevails in Michigan courts in employment discrimination action
• Verizon Wireless prevails in putative nationwide FLSA collective action brought by retail store employees , (2009)
• Vermont Insurance Commissioner as receiver of Ambassador Insurance wins U.S. Court of Appeals affirmance of $119.9 million jury verdict and $182.9 million judgment for auditing malpractice against PricewaterhouseCoopers , (2009)
• Versitech builds global patent portfolio for electronic displays and other technologies , (2009)
• Vesuvius USA Corp sells Monofrax to RHI AG , (2009)
• Viasystems to acquire DDi for $282 million , (2012)
• Victor Acquisition Corp., affiliate of Resilience Capital Partners, acquires substantially all assets of Victor Oolitic Stone Company in 363 sale , (2009)
• Vietnamese convict wins relief from deportation , (2009)
• ViewSonic defends against ITC patent infringement investigation involving monitor and TV patents , (2011)
• Viking Group sells shares to Minimax in a complex multi-country stock sale, creating a combined company with over $1.5 billion in sales and 6,000 employees , (2009)
• Visteon develops patent portfolio for car differential and axle assembly
• Vizio files patent infringement action against LG Electronics over broadcasting techniques for high definition television , (2011)
• Vizio responds to claims of patent infringement by LG Electronics in ITC 337 proceeding , (2009)
• Vizio settles patent infringement dispute with Sony over television technology , (2009)
• VMware acquires SlideRocket
• Wachovia Bank heads up bank group in Carmike Cinemas bankruptcy , (2009)
• Wachovia Bank led bank group in Horizon PCS bankruptcy , (2009)
• Wakefield James acquires Artistic Stairs
• Wall Street Rarities pursues litigation against vendor and consultant for various business torts involving defective software , (2009)
• Warren General Hospital defends against class action alleging breach of confidentiality in hospital records theft , (2009)
• Washington Group International acquired by URS Corp for $3.2 billion , (2009)
• Washington Group International adopts shareholders' rights plan , (2009)
• Washington Group International forms and winds up joint venture with British Nuclear Fuels plc
• Wasserstein & Co. acquires Bear Creek , (2009)
• Wasserstein & Co. sells interest in Prism Business Media to MidOcean Partners
• Wasserstein finances acquisition of Bear Creek Corporation (Harry and David)
• Wasserstein Perella & Co. acts as financial advisor in the acquisition of BHC Communications
• Wavecom acquires assets of Sony Ericsson's M2M communications unit , (2009)
• Weir Group acquires CH Warman Group for $231 million , (2009)
• Weir Group acquires Linatex Consolidated Holdings , (2010)
• Weir Group acquires Novatech for £113m (US$176 million) , (2012)
• Weir Group acquires Seaboard Holdings for US$675 million , (2011)
• Weir Group acquires SPM Flow Control for $653 million , (2009)
• Weir Group defends against trade dress litigation involving exclusivity of rights to use proprietary slurry pump design
• Wendy's defends against purported wage-hour class action
• West Publishing asserts action against Howard Rossen alleging breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition
• White Consolidated Industries defends against claims of price discrimination in RV awnings and air conditioners , (2009)
• WIL Research completes sale of company , (2009)
• Williams Communications Group files for chapter 11 , (2009)
• Williams Communications Group involved in reorganization plan
• Williams Communications signs $375 million exit credit agreement
• Wintek negotiates licensing of liquid crystal display technology
• Wireless communications provider restructures bond debt
• WL Ross acquires loan servicing unit of American Home Mortgage , (2009)
• WL Ross acquires Safety Components International
• WL Ross leads buyout of Horizon Natural Resources , (2009)
• WL Ross obtains acquisition financing for Horizon Natural Resources
• WL Ross participates in €1.123 billion (US$1.6 billion) minority investment in Bank of Ireland , (2011)
• WL Ross portfolio company acquires Texas Railcar Leasing , (2009)
• WL Ross portfolio company obtains $200 million credit facility
• Woman wins suit against moving company , (2003)
• Woodward spin out to commercialize engine supercharger technology , (2009)
• World Kitchen closes $438 million exit financing
• World Kitchen goes into bankruptcy
• World Kitchen investigates and settles allegations by official committee of unsecured creditors involving fraudulent conveyance claims , (2009)
• World Kitchen seeks benefits counsel , (2009)
• World Plan Executive Council wins 6th Circuit reversal of adverse $2 million judgment in bankruptcy/real estate dispute , (2009)
• Worldwide chemical manufacturer resolves EC investigation , (2009)
• Wyeth defends against prescription drug product liability action in Nebraska federal court , (2009)
• Wyeth defends against prescription drug product liability action in Pennsylvania federal court , (2009)
• Wyeth defends against prescription drug product liability action involving 10 claimants in Pennsylvania federal court , (2009)
• Wyeth obtains 5th Circuit affirmance of summary judgment entry in products liability action related to prescription antidepressant , (2009)
• Wyeth wins summary judgment in product liability case involving Effexor , (2010)
• Wyeth wins summary judgment in product liability case involving pharmaceutical product Effexor , (2010)
• Wyeth's successful defense verdict affirmed by Seventh Circuit in product liability litigation involving antidepressant Effexor , (2009)
• Xcel Energy defends shareholder class action , (2009)
• Xcel Energy obtains dismissal of securities fraud, derivative and ERISA actions
• Xcel Energy obtains dismissal of shareholder derivative action
• Xcel Energy purchases all outstanding public shares of NRG Energy
• Xcel Energy resolves action brought by beneficiaries of employee benefit plans
• Xcel Energy resolves shareholder derivative action
• Xcel Energy undergoes $10 billion chapter 11 reorganization of its unregulated utility subsidiary, NRG Energy , (2009)
• Xerxes Corp. defends Notice of Violation for alleged odor nuisance emissions
• Xilinx settles patent infringement dispute with Agere Systems and LSI over FPGAs , (2010)
• Yamaha successfully defends nationwide litigation of product liability cases and claims involving the Rhino side-by-side ("SxS") vehicle , (2009)
• Yaskawa prevails in investigation alleging infringement of Fanuc patent relating to electric robots used in painting automobiles , (2009)
• Yaskawa prevails in patent infringement suit relating to motion control technology , (2009)
• Yellow pages publisher refinances debt
• Youngstown Steel Door wins retiree medical benefits class action
• Zenith wins summary judgment in race and sex discrimination lawsuit
• Zimmer defends against breach of contract claims and violation of trade secret statues arising from termination of distribution agreement , (2009)
• Zimmer Holdings obtains dismissal of shareholder derivative action , (2009)
• Zimmer obtains dismissal of putative class action alleging fraud for kick-backs to doctors on orthopedic knee and hip implants , (2009)
• Zimmer obtains preliminary injunction enforcing non-competition covenant against former sales rep with Biomet , (2009)
• Zimmer seeks to enforce in Tennessee Court non-competition covenants against former sales rep with Stallings , (2009)
• Zimmer successfully resolves multi-jurisdictional litigation arising from acquisition of competitive distributors , (2009)
• Zimmer wins dismissal of federal antitrust and RICO litigation in Third Circuit , (2009)
• Zimmer wins injunction requiring Haemonetics to continue supplying critical blood transfusion product , (2009)
• Zimmer wins judgment on pleadings dismissing untimely unfair competition claims , (2011)
• Zircoa seeks advice on qualified retirement benefits , (2009)
• Zoran to merge with CSR for $679 million , (2011)
• Zurn Industries acquires Eljer Industries

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