Law Admin

Almost seven years since its initial planning application and after two public inquiries, Riverside Resource Recovery Ltd (RRRL) has been given the go ahead to build the UK’s largest energy from waste (EfW) power station in Belvedere, South East London. Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks gave the project his approval in a Written Ministerial Statement on

NEW YORK, June 19 LAWFUEL – Press Release Service — Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, the international law firm, advised a consortium led by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BAM) (“Brookfield”), which includes Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and another institutional investor, in its agreement to acquire 92% of the

Federman & Sherwood Announces That a Securities Class Action Lawsuit has been Filed Against InfoSonics Corporation OKLAHOMA CITY, June 19 LAWFUEL – Press Release Network — On June 13, 2006, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California against InfoSonics Corporation (Amex: IFO). The complaint

Washington, D.C., June 19, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – SEC Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that Federal Reserve Board Governor Mark W. Olson has been appointed Chairman of the five-member Public Company Accounting Oversight Board until 2010. “Mark Olson’s experience as a central banker, his background in securities law, his expertise gained

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Three gas traders pleaded guilty this morning to conspiracy to manipulate the price of a commodity in interstate commerce, U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced. This guilty plea is the result of a two-year investigation by the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, the

Tuesday 20 June 2006 – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released the findings of its fourth assessment of the Sydney Futures Exchange Limited (SFE) and SFE Clearing Corporation Limited (SFECC), and its second assessment of Austraclear Limited (Austraclear). Under the Corporations Act, ASIC is required to

Four Partners from Alschuler Grossman Stein and Kahan Join Firm (June 19, 2006, Los Angeles) – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Steptoe & Johnson LLP, an international litigation, regulatory, and corporate law firm, announced today that four lateral partners will join the firm July 1 and open a new Steptoe office in Century City.

LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – With effect from 19 June, Clifford Chance will have an office in Bucharest, through an association with Romanian law firm Badea & Asociatii. Daniel Badea and Nadia Georgescu, partners in the firm in Bucharest, are strongly embedded in the Romanian business community, with a track record of high profile

LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Linklaters has defeated a $220 million fraud and negligence claim against its client Petrobras. The claim was part of the huge on-going litigation concerning the P36 rig – which was the world’s largest oil and gas production platform before it tragically exploded and sank 190km off Rio de Janeiro,

LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – The owner of Oxnard-based Haas Automation, Inc. was arrested this morning on federal tax fraud charges for allegedly orchestrating a scheme in which approximately $50 million of bogus expenses were put on the company’s books in an attempt to avoid the payment of more than $20 million in federal