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...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...
...board room as the main jousting arena, and that whenever a company wants to stage-or defend against-a raid, its management usually calls up either of two New York lawyers. One is Lipton, a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The other is Joseph Flom, a partner in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Both experts in the exquisite art of making tempting offers or executing legalistic delays, they have opposed each other in most of the big-name raids of the past decade...
...directors of the bureau are Reece A. Gardner '33, president, of Kansas City, Mo.; Marshall K. Skadden, Vice-president, New York City; Joseph H. Moran, secretary, New York City; Joe J. Straburger Jr., Galesburg, Ill.; Alexander L. Keyes, New York City; George A. Teitz, Newport, R. I.; and Carl Tangeman, Columbus...