The AM Roundup: Olympus Deal, Massey, More

[WSJ Law Blog]

The M&A work: Law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges and merger boutique Perella Weinberg Partners, both based in New York, advised Japanese camera maker Olympus on its February 2008 acquisition of British medical-device maker Gyrus Group.The deal had been largely forgotten until it emerged this month that Olympus paid $687 million to other advisers on the $1.92 billion acquisition. Perella Weinberg was paid about $8 million in cash for its work on the deal. It's unclear how much Weil was paid. WSJ Massey: Monday marked the first day of trial of the first criminal proceeding stemming from the blast at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine, the deadliest U.S. mining accident in four decades. . .

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