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Wednesday 9 August 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has forced the withdrawal of a takeover bid proposed to be made by Australian Share Purchasing Company Pty Ltd (ASPC), a company controlled by Mr David Tweed. ASPC announced to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and

Weil Gotshal Press Release – Tuesday, 8 August 2006 – LawFuel – Law News Network – New York, August 8, 2006 – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, the international law firm, advised N.E.W. Customer Service Companies (NEW) in its major investment by Berkshire Partners, along with Freeman Spogli & Co. The management of NEW also

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – (Published by Europa Law Publishing, July 2006, written by Gordon Blanke MCIArb with foreword by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel) This new book seeks to analyse and discuss the European Commission’s recent use of arbitration clauses as a mechanism for the judicial monitoring of especially behavioural remedies in the context

Friday 11 August 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a declaration in the Federal Court of Australia that CiTiConsulting Pty Ltd (CitiConsulting), a Melbourne-based accounting firm, engaged in misleading conduct by sending a letter to shareholders in Patrick Corporation Limited (Patrick). CitiConsulting, which

DENVER, CO – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado and Richard C. Powers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Denver Division, announced that JASON PAUL CRAIG, age 31 years, of Steamboat Springs, was arrested this morning without incident at his

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO, President, and Chairman of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., and Stephanie Jensen, its former Vice President of Human Resources, were charged in a twelve-count indictment today with a scheme to backdate stock option

DENVER – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, and Terry L. Stuart, Special Agent In Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation, Denver Field Office, announced that a federal magistrate judge in Los Angeles (Central District of California), late yesterday ordered HERMAN ALPHONSO REGUSTERS, JR., age 47,

Meredith J. Kane The August 6 New York Times featured an article on the growing trend of Broadway theaters to sell their unused air rights to real estate developers, and discusses the sale of the air rights over the St. James and Al Hirschfeld Theaters to developers building new residential and hotel buildings in the

Friday 11 August 2006 06 – Aussie Credit Cards (Aussie) has agreed to suspend the introduction of a higher interest rate for cash advances for a number of Aussie MasterCard customers following concern by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) that it may have engaged in bait advertising. The Aussie MasterCard was widely advertised

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Linklaters has advised Tecom Investments FZ LLC, a Dubai Free Zone company, and Dubai Investment Group (both subsidiaries of Dubai Holding LLC) on the acquisition of 35 per cent of the state-owned Tunisian telecom operator Tunisie Telecom. The transaction is the largest in the history of Tunisia. The process