Americas
O'Melveny & Myers and Ropes & Gray advised on the latest
US-Canadian corporate acquisition. US phone company Verizon
Communications announced that it had agreed to sell its
Canadian directory operations to private equity firm Bain Capital
for $1.54 billion. Ropes & Gray advised client Bain, which,
like the law firm, is headquartered in Boston. Newcomb Stillwell
and Howard Glazer were the firm's lead lawyers on the deal. Greg
Patti ran a team from O'Melveny's New York office that is advising
Verizon.
Morgan Lewis recruited the former head of the US
Department of Justice's Enron Task Force to its corporate
litigation team. Leslie Caldwell joined Morgan Lewis's New York
office, where she will run the white-collar criminal defence group.
She will also play an active role in the firm's west coast
litigation practice. From 2002 until earlier this year Caldwell was
director of the Justice Department's special task force charged
with investigating allegations of fraud arising...