Bloomberg Law
Sept. 5, 2017, 12:23 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: Skadden, Wachtell Advise on Huge Aerospace Deal

• United Technologies is buying Rockwell Collins, an airplane parts manufacturer, for an estimated $23 billion to $30 billion, in what is called one of the aerospace industry’s largest deals ever. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is advising United Technologies, while Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is advising Rockwell Collins. ( Bloomberg ) ( New York Times )

• Richard Posner, the prolific “pragmatic” federal judge, announced Friday that he is immediately retiring from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, after 36 years. ( Chicago Law Daily Bulletin ) Nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the 78-year-old Posner is probably the ...

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