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23 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – IOMA, Institute of Management and Administration, a major newsletter publisher and conference specialist, gave strong endorsement to the web log of LawBiz Management Co., www.lawbizblog.com. In their electronic magazine, Law Firm Leadership e-Report of August 17, 2005, Lisa Isom-Rodriguez , Editor, said that www.lawbizblog.com was

DENVER – 23 August – 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 TYLER HAMILTON, age 43, pled guilty today to bank robbery charges before U.S. District Court

23 August 2005, Hong Kong – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Shearman & Sterling’s Hong Kong office advised UBS A.G. as the sole underwriter in the US$96 million initial public offering and NASDAQ listing of 6,400,000 American Depository Shares representing ordinary shares of China Medical Technologies, Inc. The company has granted the underwriter

WASHINGTON, D.C. 22 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security announced today that 87 individuals have been indicted and 59 people have been arrested on charges related to international conspiracies to launder money and smuggle counterfeit U.S. currency, weapons, drugs and cigarettes into

22 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Clifford Chance continues to lead high yield bond offerings from Hong Kong Hong Kong – Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised XinAo Gas Holdings Limited (“XinAo”) on its issue of US$200 million Guaranteed Notes due 2012, jointly and severally guaranteed by certain of its

New York, August 22, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP represented CDH China Growth Capital Holdings Company Limited in the formation of its new US$310 million private equity fund, CDH China Growth Capital Fund II, L.P., focused on making equity investments in the People’s Republic of China. The

Washington, D.C., Aug. 22, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed civil fraud charges against two former officers of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for orchestrating a fraudulent earnings management scheme that deceived investors about the true performance, profitability and growth trends of the company and its U.S.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Mary Alexander, a San Francisco-based consumer advocate attorney and former president and political action chair of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), was named president of the Roscoe Pound Institute, a Washington legal think tank devoted to education on civil justice issues.

22 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has advised Royal Bank of Scotland, as head of a consortium of investors, on the consortium’s US$3.1bn stake in Bank of China. The deal values Bank of China at US$30bn. Bank of China is one of the PRC’s largest banks with 11,307 branches controlling

151 years of history weren’t enough to save Coudert Brothers from winding up the first of the major, international law firms. Partners at the law firm have voted to disband the legal network, founded by Frederic Rene Coudert in New York in 1853. “After exploring various options, the partners of Coudert have authorized the firm