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19 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – LawFuel.com’s lead story from the New York Law Journal concerns the partners at international law firm Coudert Brothers voting to let the firm break up after failing to reach a merger agreement with another firm.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – August 18, 2005 – Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering by the company of 14,159,265 shares of Class A common stock. The managing underwriters of the

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced awards of more than $20 million to 50 states and the District of Columbia to enforce state and local underage drinking laws. The awards are made through the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws program, which supports

18 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has advised Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston in the EUR 4.4 billion leveraged acquisition of Basell B.V. and Basell Finance USA Inc., together known as Basell Polyolefins, the world’s largest producer of polypropylene and Europe’s largest producer of polyethylene. Basell Polyolefins was

Court issues emergency orders freezing or ordering the repatriation of more than $6 million Washington, D.C., August 18, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – In a second emergency action alleging insider trading in the securities of Reebok International Ltd. (Reebok), the Securities and Exchange Commission today charged eight additional individuals who reaped

New York, August 18, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Baker & McKenzie has strengthened its corporate & securities and securitization practices with the addition of two partners in New York. Laurence Pettit joins from White & Case; and Martin Weisberg from Troutman Sanders LLP, formerly Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin LLP.

Sheffield – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Creditors of Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Ltd (SFEL) have approved the groundbreaking management buyout which will secure the jobs of 600 workers and protect their pensions. At a meeting at Sheffield’s Hilton Hotel today (Tuesday) the deal was put to creditors who overwhelmingly (99.9 per cent) backed

ALVISO, Calif., Aug. 17 LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO), the pioneer in digital video recording (DVR) services, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed in full a favorable summary judgment ruling in the lawsuit filed against the Company in 2001 by Pause Technology

GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman- Aug. 17, 2005- LAWFUEL – The Law News Network -Walkers, the global offshore law firm of choice for fund managers, companies, financial institutions, and international law firms, announced today that a record number of new hedge funds were created in the Cayman Islands during the first six months of the year

17 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Clifford Chance US LLP announced today that Howard E. Peskoe has joined the firm as Partner, resident in the New York office. Howard will co-chair the firm’s Real Estate practice in the Americas alongside partner David Djaha, the current chairman. “Howard’s tremendous depth of experience