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16 February – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy’s Amsterdam office has bolstered its team specialised in construction, projects and real estate with the appointment of Arent van Wassenaer, an internationally acclaimed high profile construction and real estate lawyer. He will join Allen & Overy Amsterdam as soon as possible. Arent

US$540 Million Astelit Deal is Largest Private Financing in Ukraine London/Moscow – LAWFUEL – February 15, 2006 — Chadbourne & Parke represented Astelit, a Ukrainian telecommunications company majority directly controlled by Turkish GSM operator Turkcell, in a US$540 million financing. The deal marks one of the largest private financings in Ukraine to date. Astelit, which

16 February – 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 the guilty plea of defendant, Gregory Delatour in connection with a Medicare fraud involving a Miami AIDS clinic. In

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference will take place in St Petersburg, Russia on 3 – 4 April 2006 at the Grand Hotel Europe. The conference is jointly organised by the Anglo-Russian Law Association, the Panel of Independent Mediators and SJ Berwin LLP with support from the Chartered Institute

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 15 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — On December 30, 2005, after battling for a year and a half, Bobbi Koehler, a former female executive of Imperial Capital Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITLA Capital Corporation (ITLA), the largest financial institution headquartered in San Diego County, won vindication and

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – On February 14 Paul, Weiss client Equifin Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused on the financial services industry, closed an aggregate $81 million equity commitment to fund the operations of Flagship Credit Corporation, a newly formed automobile finance company catering to the non-prime auto loan

TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced the successful conclusion of a civil lawsuit filed against a Nassau County man for unlawfully soliciting relief donations intended for Hurricane Katrina victims. Robert Moneyhan must pay $10,000 for the state’s costs of investigation and is subject to a $20,000

14 February – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A former correctional officer who worked at the California Institute for Men in Chino was convicted this afternoon on federal racketeering charges for assisting the Nazi Low Riders (NLR) prison gang by helping members distribute narcotics and assault inmates. Shayne Allyn Ziska, 44, of Fontana,

DALLAS – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A Dallas County jury has issued a verdict of approximately $1 million on behalf of Dallas-based New You Weight Management Center after finding that Plano Surgery Center (PSC) failed to live up to its end of a contract that resulted in New You going out of

District Court judge not satisfied that documents sought of taxpayer existed LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A reserved decision of Judge C N Touhy of the Wellington District Court last week dismissed an application by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue to imprison a taxpayer, Scott Anderson, for his company not supplying documents required