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September 27, 2011 3:59 PM

Kirkland, AO, Others Lead on Legal, Business Media Deals

Posted by Brian Baxter

In a pair of recently announced transactions totaling nearly $1 billion and involving two of the leading companies in the legal and business information sector, Thomson Reuters is selling a business unit and Reed Elsevier is buying one.

Reed Elsevier, owner of the LexisNexis legal research service, announced Monday that it will acquire Skokie, Ilinois???based legal and financial data provider Accuity Holdings from private equity firm Investcorp for about $533 million in cash.

Morgan, Lewis Bockius corporate partners Charles Engros, Jr., and Robert Dickey are leading a team from the firm advising publishing giant Reed Elsevier on the acquisition. The firm has in the past handled deal work on behalf of companies buying assets from London-based Reed

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Source: http://www.rocketnews.com/2011/09/kirkland-ao-others-lead-on-legal-business-media-deals/

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