Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Legal Lasso: Big Deals Up $4.7B | Law Week Colorado

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BIG DEALS UP. More than $4.7 billion in transactions have come through Colorado in the last 24 hours:
*One was a $2.2 billion acquisition of AboveNet Inc. by Louisville, Colo.-based fiber optic bandwidth infrastructure company Zayo Group. AboveNet, a network provider of high bandwidth connectivity, is valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attorneys involved in the deal came from the Denver office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher:?Steve Talley,?Beau Stark,?Aaron Adams, and associate Dylan Ramsey.
*?Williams Partners is acquiring Caiman Eastern Midstream LLC for $2.5 billion. Caiman Eastern Midstream is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caiman Energy. Williams?intends to participate in a new joint venture with Caiman Energy and its investors and management to develop midstream infrastructure in the NGL- and oil-rich areas of the Utica Shale, primarily in Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. Williams is represented in the transaction by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher attorneys, including Denver partners Richard Russo, Steven Talley, Robyn Zolman, New York partner Janet Vance and of counsel Theodore Kim. Associates included Denver?s Dylan Ramsey and Bryan McCutcheon.

?SEEN? OUT ON THE TOWN: Amy Hansen, a shareholder at Denver real estate law firm Otten Johnson. Hansen is a litigator and real estate specialist who is involved with Denver youth nonprofit Urban Peak. Want to be ?seen?? Tweet our friends Cori Plotkin and Sarah Hogan at @BarefootPRDen or e-mail them at barefootpr@me.com.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BEGINS NEW SEARCH FOR GC:?A 10-member committee has begun its search for a replacement to current university counsel Dan Wilkerson, who last year announced his intention to retire.

LATERAL WATCH: Ballard Spahr?s Denver office picks up municipal finance attorney Jeffrey Cohen, who was previously with the Denver office of Patton Boggs.

LATERAL WATCH: Ryley Carlock & Applewhite lands New York lateral Christina Parry.

GOOD FOR YOU: The Bench & Bar Society, a legal philanthropic arm of the American Red Cross in Denver, named Barbara Grandjean its new co-chair.

ABA BACKS OFF LAW SCHOOLS:?It looks as though the American Bar Association may not require law schools to disclose detailed graduate salary information after all, the National Law Journal reports. The?ABA?s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar?rejected a recommendation that it require law schools to report school-specific salary data.

HE SAID IT:??This is the council?s latest mistake in a string of mistakes. It?s a pattern of consumer-disoriented information.? ?Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School Transparency, a nonprofit organization that pushes for better law school consumer information on an ABA council?s recommendation to not require law schools to report school-specific salary data.

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