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Moscow, 15 December 2005 –LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Baker & McKenzie today announced its role as advisor to HVB Group, a member of the UniCredit Group, as the arranger of Russia’s first “true sale” securitization of consumer loan receivables for Russian Standard Bank (RSB). The transaction, which closed 30 November 2005, securitized

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 15 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Cooley Godward LLP clients NCsoft Corporation and NC Interactive, Inc., along with Cryptic Studios, Inc., reached an amicable settlement yesterday with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and Marvel Enterprises, Inc. of a closely-watched copyright and trademark case Marvel brought over the highly popular multiplayer

Defendant Had Accepted Employment Offer of Vice President Position At Competitor Firm SAN FRANCISCO – 15 December -LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Mehdi Matt Rashidi, 44, of Pleasanton, California, pleaded guilty on Thursday afternoon for misappropriating trade secrets from his former employer. According to court

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is pleased to announce the election of its new joint senior partners. They are Konstantin Mettenheimer, currently joint senior partner based in the firm’s Frankfurt office, and Guy Morton, a London-based corporate partner. The senior partners have been elected by the firm’s

London, 15 December, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The London office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP represented Providence Equity Partners (Providence) in its agreement to buy-out its partners’ interests in Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Europe’s largest cable company with 9.6 million customers. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The

London, 15 December 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s London and Moscow offices advised OJSC Novolipetsk Steel on the secondary offering by its controlling shareholder of shares and Global Depositary Shares, and the admission of the company to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Transport & Trade Groups of the Melbourne offices of leading Australian firms Middletons, and Blake Dawson & Waldron will come together in a move to HFW. The office will be headed by 4 of Australia’s most distinguished maritime and trade lawyers, Robert Springall, Gavin

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A Securities and Exchange Commission advisory panel voted to recommend that only the largest 20 percent of public companies be required to have auditors vouch for the internal controls of the entity. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act currently imposes a review of internal controls of all publicly

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The law firm of Spector, Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. announces that a securities class action lawsuit was commenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Stone Energy Corporation (“Stone

NEW YORK – December 15, 2005 –LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Holland & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that 28 attorneys in the firm were recently elected to the partnership for 2006, according to Howell W. Melton, Jr., the firm’s managing partner. One associate and one senior counsel from the firm’s New