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The partners of Ebsworth & Ebsworth are delighted to announce the appointment of Darren Ho as a partner in the national construction and property team. Darren joins on the firm on 2 May from specialist building and construction firm, Lambert & Ho, and has 12 years experience in the industry. His expertise includes front end

Hong Kong, 19 May, 2006 – LAWFUEL Press release service – Baker & McKenzie’s REIT team in Hong Kong has further consolidated its leading position in the market by being the lead counsel on the establishment and initial public offering of Champion Real Estate Investment Trust (“Champion REIT”) – the first Hong Kong REIT with

Hong Kong / Tokyo / London – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised PMA Capital Management (“PMA”), the largest investment manager in Asia outside Japan, on its buy out by SPARX Asset Management (“SPARX”), Japan’s only listed independent investment manager. The transaction, which remains subject to certain regulatory

28 May – LAWFUEL Press Release Service – Simpson Thacher recently represented American BankNote S.A. (“ABN”) and selling shareholders, ABN Equities Inc. and Banco Alvorada S.A., in a secondary offering of ABN’s common shares that raised the U.S. dollar equivalent of US$226.3 million for the selling shareholders. The transaction was ABN’s initial equity offering with

LAWFUEL Press Release Service – Minter Ellison remains the only law firm globally, and the only professional services firm in Australia, to participate in the Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI). In the latest CRI results released today, Minter Ellison has received an ‘outstanding’ ranking for community management and for workplace management. The CRI measures participating companies

LAWFUEL Press Release Service – Kirkland & Ellis LLP is honored to announce the 11 recipients of its 2006 Minority Fellowship Program. The Fellowship includes a $15,000 stipend and a salaried summer associate position in one of the Firm’s five domestic offices following the student’s second year of law school. Students designated as finalists, who

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2006 – LAWFUEL Press Release Service – Covington & Burling partner David M. Marchick and Edward M. Graham, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE), have co-authored US National Security and Foreign Direct Investment, published this month by IIE. The book is the most comprehensive analysis to date

LAWFUEL Press Release Service – Peter Kiernan, fraud and financial crime expert at Eversheds LLP, comments on the conviction of two former executives at Dutch retailer Ahold for fraud: “In addition to Parmalat, this case has been one of the major precedent-setting fraud trials in Europe and shows that European authorities are cracking down on

LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Nadia Burgard has joined the firm’s New York City office as a partner with its lending and restructuring practice, a multidisciplinary group of more than 75 lawyers devoted to serving the capital markets transactional needs of its growing financial services industry client base. Burgard has extensive experience in financing

25 May 2006 – LAWFUEL – Press Release Network – Lovells have advised Liverpool Victoria, the UK’s largest friendly society, on its new business partnership with Morgan Stanley. The announcement was made on 15 May 2006. Detail: Under the terms of the deal, Morgan Stanley acquire Liverpool Victoria’s own branded credit cards and the affinity