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19 May – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Clifford Chance advises on Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance’s landmark Taiwanese deal Hong Kong – The Hong Kong office of international law firm Clifford Chance is advising Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, one of the largest non-life insurers in Japan, on its acquisition of Taiwanese non-life insurer, Mingtai Fire

London – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Nigel Knowles, Managing Partner of the European and Asian arm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (“DLA Piper”) today announced that it had achieved a “very good result” for the last financial year. Speaking at DLA Piper’s seventh annual press conference in London on 18 May

19 May – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The United States Attorney’s Office announced that a federal grand jury in San Francisco late yesterday indicted three alleged “Westmob” gang members on federal racketeering charges and a fourth individual on conspiracy to use, and use of, a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking

Washington DC (May 17, 2005) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Nina R. Eldred, a former assistant general counsel with Marriott International, Inc. is joining the global hospitality practice at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. At Marriott, Eldred worked with the US lodging management and real estate development group, where she had legal

BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 19 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network– General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) slogan Imagination At Work might be better phrased Discrimination At Work, according to a class action complaint filed Tuesday in United States District Court in Connecticut by one of the company’s top-ranking African-American executives. Marc T. Thomas, president, chairman and

LONDON, May 18, 2005- LAWFUEL – The Law News Network -Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Alastair Gorrie has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in its corporate practice group. Gorrie, a former partner at Coudert Brothers in London, focuses on EU and UK competition law and EU single-market law. With

18 May – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Freehills announced today the appointment of Ms Tessa Hoser as a partner in its Banking & Finance group, effective from 1 July 2005. Tessa is one of Australias most experienced and respected securitisation practitioners. As a partner at Blake Dawson Waldron she was heavily involved

18 May – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and David W. Bourne, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Criminal Investigations, announced today that defendant, Anthony L. Jerdine, 33, of Pepperpike, Ohio, entered a guilty plea before United States Magistrate Judge

London,United Kingdom (May 16, 2005) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – An international team of lawyers with global law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.LP. is representing the multinational consortium LRG Acquisition Limited in its recent billion-pound acquisition of a portfolio owned by Intercontinental Hotels Group. The European Commission announced Wednesday that the

18 May – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has advised the lead manager and bookrunner, Barclays Capital, on the issuance by Mercator Lines Limited of US$60 million 1.50 per cent convertible bonds due 2010. This is the debut euromarket offering by Meractor Lines Limited, an Indian shipping company and the second Indian