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Entertainment & Sports

Sep. 2, 2009

New Home at Disney for Marvel's Men in $4 Billion Deal

Lawyers from Paul Hastings and Dewey & LeBoeuf helped wrap up marathon negotiations for the Mouse House's $4 billion purchase of comic book hulk Marvel Entertainment Inc.

By Jean-Luc Renault
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, outside counsel for Marvel Entertainment Inc., are headed home after the Walt Disney Co. announced Monday it has agreed to buy the comic-book hulk for $4 billion in cash and stock.

Paul Hastings' M&A chair Carl Sanchez and senior associate Claudia Simon, both based in San Diego, met in New York City with Disney's lawyers to negotiate the d...

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