Bloomberg Law
June 19, 2017, 12:23 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: The Law Firms on Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods

• Amazon.com Inc. announced plans to buy the high-end organic grocery company Whole Foods Market Inc. in a $13.7 billion deal. Among four Big Law firms involved in the deal, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz advised the Austin-based grocer and Sullivan & Cromwell advised Seattle-based Amazon. ( Am Law Daily )

• Big investment banks with workplace legal problems often turn to labor and employment lawyers at their main full-service law firms instead of to specialty firms. A recent Bloomberg BNA analysis showed full-service firms McGuire Woods and Seyfarth Shaw, which started out as worklaw firms, entering the most appearances in investment bank workplace ...

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