Wake Up Call: 8 Firms Advise on Ex-Viacom CFO’s Deal to Buy Univision

In today’s column, Dentons plans to appeal a $32.3 million malpractice verdict it lost in Ohio; the New York federal judge who booted a Sidley partner from Huawei’s defense team in a criminal case offered some information to explain her decision; and early 2019 financial results are in from O’Melveny and Cozen O’Connor.

• Leading off, eight Big Law firms advised in former Viacom Inc. CFO Wade Davis’s deal to buy a majority, 64%, stake in Univision Communications Inc. The sale price wasn’t disclosed, but apparently it was much less than the $10 billion the Spanish-language broadcaster’s private equity owners had ...