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Feb. 5, 2008

Skadden Helps Longtime Client Yahoo Deal With Bid

Skadden and Yahoo found themselves on the other end of a big deal last week when Microsoft Corp. made its unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid for the World Wide Web icon.

By Adam Gorlick
Daily Journal Staff Writers
This article appears on Page 1.

      SAN FRANCISCO - Skadden lawyers have long represented Yahoo Inc. as the Internet giant grew by gobbling up smaller technology companies.
      With the Sunnyvale-based company in a slump, Skadden and Yahoo found themselves on the other end of the big deal last week when Microsoft Corp. made its unsolicited $44...

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