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• Deals Update: Graham Officially Clears Way for Reynolds Deal
• The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200
• Dechert, Simpson Thacher Land Roles on Two Big South American Deals
• A Cromwell & Goodwin Victim Speaks Out
• Ballard Spahr Hires New Client Interviewer
• Plugging Away: Howrey Still Committed to New York Power Project
• Justice Department Closes Case on bin Laden

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Deals Update: Graham Officially Clears Way for Reynolds Deal	Top
Graham Packaging and Silgan Holdings have terminated their pending deal, meaning Graham can move forward on its agreement to be acquired by Reynolds Group Holdings. Plus: SunPower's investors are backing a $1.3 billion takeover by Total.
The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200	Top
Akin Gump expands its health care practice; Fulbright & Jaworski welcomes a corporate partner; and K&L Gates adds partners in its Chicago and Shanghai offices. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to thechurn@alm.com.
Dechert, Simpson Thacher Land Roles on Two Big South American Deals	Top
The two firms are advising on two separate transactions worth a combined total of nearly $2.5 billion involving coal mining and water utility operations in Colombia and Chile.
A Cromwell & Goodwin Victim Speaks Out	Top
In April, The Am Law Daily broke the strange story of an apparently fictitious New York law firm that authorities in the United Kingdom subsequently labeled a fraud. Two months later, one man who says he was duped by the fake firm is shedding light on how the scam worked.
Ballard Spahr Hires New Client Interviewer	Top
Sibling publication The Legal Intelligencer reports that Melissa Margulies signed on last week as the firm's designated client interviewer, a business development position that doesn't exist at most law firms.
Plugging Away: Howrey Still Committed to New York Power Project	Top
Robert Green, a member of Howrey's dissolution committee, told an upstate New York newspaper that the firm intends to fulfill the terms of what has become a controversial contract connected to the creation of a new public power utility.
Justice Department Closes Case on bin Laden	Top
A little more than a month after a U.S. special forces raid killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the Justice Department has filed papers in federal court in New York seeking to close the case against the former al Qaeda leader.

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