Word: skadden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, in February, Goldenson and Murphy met in the offices of ABC's lawyer Joseph Flom, a partner in the New York City law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, famous as takeover specialists. From that point onward, the deal moved rapidly. The two sides spent only ten days in face-to-face talks, although they confronted some sticky points. Says Goldenson: "It fell apart from time to time as we went along...
...lawyers--Joseph Flom of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Martin Lipton of New York's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz--are jousting in a Delaware court over the legality of the "poison pill" corporate take-over defense...
...will Gulfs 300,000 shareholders fare badly. They hold 165 million shares that since last summer have jumped in value from $40 to $80 a share, for a total gain of more than $6 billion. Says Donald Drapkin, a merger specialist with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a leading New York City law firm: "Pickens created real value for Gulf shareholders in a stock that was stagnant before he arrived on the scene...
...first step is to hire outside advisers, including an investment bank and a law firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions. Among law firms, New York City's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, for example, is well known for keeping unwanted suitors away. So feared is the firm's takeover specialist, Joseph Flom, 60, that 200 corporations pay fat retainers just to guarantee that Flom will work for them, and not against them, should they become takeover targets. The retainers add up to about $10 million a year...
...company's first steps was to summon its group of outside advisers. They included: Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, investment bankers with First Boston Corp., a Wall Street firm; Joseph Flom, a lawyer with the New York firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Richard Cheney, a public relations expert with New York's Hill & Knowlton, who directed the media campaign that helped McGraw-Hill block the attempt by American Express to take it over...