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5 September – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Corporate law firm McClure Naismith has announced a five year plan that aims to triple turnover and double staffing of its banking and asset finance unit. Launched five years ago the banking and asset finance unit has grown rapidly to three partners, 24 staff and

5 September – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has advised ABN AMRO and DEPFA PPP on the Douai Logipôle project involving the design, build, finance and maintenance of a logistical support platform (Logipôle) at the Douai Hospital in the North of France. This ground-breaking project is the first PPP project to be

6 September – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy advised Inyx, Inc., a speciality company with focus on niche drug delivery technologies and products, on its €27.5 million agreement with global biopharmaceutical company, UCB, to acquire Celltech Manufacturing Services Limited (“CMSL”), a UCB subsidiary. The Allen & Overy team was led

Glasgow – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (“DLA Piper”) was named Law Firm of the Year (over 50 fee earners) at the Law Awards of Scotland held at a ceremony at Glasgow Moat House Hotel on the 1 September. David Thomson, a partner in the Real Estate practice

5 September – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and cooperating attorneys from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP obtained a $230,000 settlement for their client, the Unis family of Pueblo, Colorado. The settlement agreement, announced today, brings to a close a civil rights battle spanning almost four years

BALTIMORE – September 5, 2005 Ober|Kaler’s Chairman, John Anthony Wolf, was named “one of the world’s leading practitioners” in the field of construction law by “The International Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers.” The reference guide, published by Law Business Research Ltd., an independent London-based publishing group, identifies Mr. Wolf as one of 369 “pre-eminent lawyers”

New York, NY (September 5, 2005) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – For the second consecutive year, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has received the number one ranking on The American Lawyer’s 2005 “A-List” – characterized by The American Lawyer as its “ranking of the nation’s best law firms”. The ranking appears in the

(NEW YORK) Sept. 5, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP successfully represented International Securities Exchange, Inc. ( ISE), the world’s largest equity options exchange, in a legal dispute concerning the listing of options on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and whether index providers have a property right

5 September – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – An owner and operator of Greybor Medical Transportation, a Los Angeles-based ambulance company, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for federal health care fraud, money laundering and filing false tax returns. Boris Shpirt, 51, of Beverly Hills, was also ordered to pay a

DENVER – 5 September – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Bill Leone, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, and Richard C. Powers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Denver Office, announced that MONTGOMERY JOE CARTER, age 37, a resident of Gerrardstown, West Virginia, was sentenced today by