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Solo and Small Firms

Dec. 22, 2012

Doing Deals with Flair

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles is accustomed to complex, multifaceted deals, such as helping represent Skype's founders in the company's sale to eBay Inc.


By Ryne Hodkowski


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In 2005, Scott Alderton, co-founder of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP, was sitting in a London conference room. The founders of Skype, whom Alderton and the firm had represented from the company's inception, were on the verge of selling the videoconferencing service to eBay Inc. for $2.6 billion when a change in the deal broadly impacted its tax implications.


Given the international flair o...

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