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Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; David Bourne, Special Agent-in-Charge, United States Food and Drug Administration; Lt. Art Loynez, Miami-Dade Police Department, Pharmaceutical Diversion Unit; and Julie Torres, Special Agent-in-Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced that Larry Stafford, 51, of Miami, was sentenced by District Court

Hong Kong – International law firm Clifford Chance has announced the recruitment of Paul Chu to be based in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Paul was most recently vice president of the Asian securitisation group with Credit Suisse First Boston where he had been involved in various award-winning securitisation transactions in Korea. Prior to that,

In what appears to be the largest tech merger since the HP/Compaq deal, today Juniper Networks announced its intended acquisition of NetScreen Technologies. After a marathon deal negotiation that ended with a non-stop 72 hour session over the weekend, on Monday, February 9, 2004, Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) signed an agreement to acquire NetScreen

International law firm Allen & Overy is advising BLB Investors, L.L.C. in connection with its offer for Wembley plc at 800 pence per share. The offer, which was announced on 30 March 2004, values Wembley plc at approximately £287.3 million. BLB Investors is the bidding vehicle of a consortium comprising Starwood Capital Group Global, L.L.C.,

A wiretap investigation which examined the use of private jets based at Van Nuys Airport to transport illegal drugs resulted today in the arrest of eight defendants. One defendant is a fugitive currently being sought by authorities. The arrests are the result of Operation Jamaican Express West, which focused on the activities of SmoothAir Aviation,

Date: 1 April, 2004 China Resources Peoples Telephone Company Limited – Hong Kong IPO On 1 April, 2004 China Resources Peoples Telephone Company Limited (“Peoples Telephone”) completed its global offering of shares. A capital reduction exercise was completed prior to the offering. The offering raised approximately US$156.6 million. Peoples Telephone is one of the six

(April 1, 2004) Reed Smith LLP, a top 20 international law firm, announced today that Susan de Mars, former Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and General Counsel for AdvancePCS, Inc., a Fortune 500 health improvement services company, has joined the firm as a partner and member of the Health Care Group, resident in the

DETROIT (1 April 2004) – The law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. obtained a major victory for its client, the Coalition of Independent Filmmakers, IFP/Los Angeles, IFP/New York, on Monday, March 29, in a case against the Motion Picture Association of America Inc. (MPAA), clearing the way for filmmakers to distribute Hollywood’s

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP has been ranked the highest of only two Canadian law firms represented in the Global Counsel Super League in the area of competition law. The Global Counsel Super League is an independent qualitative assessment of law firm performance in the competition law sector across Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America by

WASHINGTON, D.C. B Deputy Attorney General James Comey, DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, and IRS Criminal Investigations Chief Nancy Jardini announced the arrests of more than 130 defendants across the United States as part of an investigation dubbed, “Operation Candy Box.” Today’s arrests mark the culmination of a two-year multi-jurisdictional