2007

LAWFUEL – UK Business & Law Newswire – Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is advising Change Capital Partners in respect of its sale of portfolio company Hillarys Blinds Limited for approximately £225 million. The purchaser is Bellotto Acquisition Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of European Capital Limited. Hillarys is the UK’s leading provider of made-to-measure window […]

LAWFUEL – The jury in the Phil Spector murder trial have been shown the revolver that was found at the feet of the deceased. The bloody gun, was produced by Los Angeles County sheriff’s Det. Mark Lillienfeld. The snub-nosed Colt Cobra revolver was not registered and never definitively linked to Spector, though prosecutors argued he

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – CBS News reports that a fourth man wanted in the alleged JFK terror plot announced last week has surrendered. Abdel Nur turned himself in this morning around 11 a.m., according to the official. He said Nur was on his way to a police station in Port du Spain, Trinidad,

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The bad news for “Scooter” Libby was that US District Judge Reggie B Walton is a judge who, for a quarter-century, is known throughout the defense bar as a “long-ball hitter” — a jurist willing to put defendants away for a long time to deter future crimes, from The

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel Donald L. Korb has selected Gregg D. Polsky as the 2007-2008 Professor in Residence. He succeeds Calvin Johnson, whose term as Professor in Residence concluded on May 31, 2007. Polsky is a nationally known scholar who recently joined the faculty at Florida

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The FBI will host an international conference June 11-15, 2007, in Miami, Florida, titled the “Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Law Enforcement Conference.” This conference will take place nearly one year after President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – HARTFORD, Conn., June 5, 2007 — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard, P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – London – DLA Piper UK LLP has advised Bank of Scotland Corporate on its joint acquisition with London & Regional Properties of David Lloyd Leisure Ltd from Whitbread Plc for £925 million. The acquisition vehicle, called Versaille Bidco Ltd, is jointly owned by London & Regional Properties and Bank

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – Washington, D.C., June 5, 2007 – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today a settled enforcement action against International Business Machines Corporation for making materially misleading statements in a chart concerning the impact that the company’s decision to expense employee stock options would have on its first quarter 2005