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LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Lovells advised HSBC Bank plc as lead manager and sole book runner on a hybrid commercial mortgage backed securitisation (CMBS) for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (a subsidiary of Scottish Widows plc) which closed on 16 February 2006. UK Balanced Property Finance Limited (the issuer) issued £170 million floating

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has advised Development Securities on the development of a new four star hotel as part of its expanding PaddingtonCentral development in London. The Accor hotel will be launched as a New Generation Novotel, providing 206 four star rooms in a block specially constructed to meet the hotel’s

LAPD Officer Orchestrated Home-Invasion Robberies Done Under Pretense His Crew Was Conducting Legitimate Police Searches LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A federal grand jury this week indicted six defendants – including three sworn law enforcement officers – on civil rights, narcotics and weapons charges for allegedly participating in a gang consisting of law

3 March – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that defendant Rosa Walled pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia M. Altonoga to an Information charging her

Paris, 1 March, 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Baker & McKenzie announced today that leading French banking & finance lawyer, Clotilde Dirnat, will join the Firm’s Paris office as a partner to develop its French banking and finance practice. Clotilde joins the Firm from Herbert Smith’s Paris office. Clotilde Dirnat spent

Lawfuel.com’s lead story from the New York Post reports that Warner Books Inc. hired former federal prosecutor Mary Jo White to defend the company in a defamation lawsuit brought by real estate mogul Donald Trump.

2 March – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A former top official of Homestore.com, Inc. pleaded guilty this morning in connection with a fraudulent scheme to inflate the company’s on-line advertising revenues through a series of fraudulent transactions in 2001. Peter Tafeen, the company’s former executive vice president of business development, pleaded guilty

NEW YORK, March 2 LAWFUEL -[ The Law News Net– Driven by the continued growth of its New York practice, McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the relocation of its New York office from Rockefeller Plaza to a substantially larger space at 340 Madison Avenue. McDermott’s New York office opened in 1988 with

1 March – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced that his office has reached an agreement with a leading upstate telecommunications company to change the way it advertises for Internet and phone services. Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Inc., and its various affiliates, all subsidiaries of Citizens Communications Co.,

Boston – (March 1, 2006) – Holland & Knight LLP today announced that Boston partner Mark Tarallo was elected Co-Chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee of the Boston Bar Association. The Mergers and Acquisitions Committee is a newly formed subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the Boston Bar Association. As a Co-Chair, Tarallo