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DETROIT (29 March 2004) – The law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. is pleased to announce that Jonathan P. O’Brien, Ph.D., has joined the firm as senior patent agent in its Kalamazoo office, expanding the firm’s intellectual property services. Dr. O’Brien brings a strong scientific background and extensive patent experience in developing

Cravath represented Ashland Inc. in connection with the proposed transfer of its 38 percent interest in Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, its maleic anhydride business and 61 Valvoline Instant Oil Change centers to Marathon Oil Corporation in a transaction structured to be tax free and valued at approximately $3 billion. The partners who worked on this

On 22 March, 2004 Babcock International Group PLC, the support services company, announced its intention to make a recommended cash and share offer to acquire the entire issued share capital of Peterhouse Group plc. The offer values Peterhouse Group plc at approximately £105.7 million. Slaughter and May act for Babcock International Group PLC. Gary Eaborn

Blake Dawson Waldron has advised Alinta Limited (Alinta) on the AUD$1.69 billion acquisition of a diversified portfolio of gas infrastructure and power generation assets from Duke Energy Corporation. In an announcement made yesterday, the assets Alinta has agreed to acquire in Australia include three strategically located gas pipelines and three gas fired power stations, and

Following Clarke’s Testimony at 9-11 Hearings, Approval of Bush’s Handling of Terrorism and Homeland Security Drops Eight Points to 57 Percent Sixty-Five Percent Say Clarke’s Testimony Hasn’t Affected Their Opinion of Bush; Fifty Percent Say Clarke’s Motivations Personal, Political Sixty-Five Percent Say Clinton Administration Did Not Take Global Terror Threat Seriously Enough Following former counterterrorism

McCann FitzGerald is named as Irish Law Firm of the Year at IFLR Awards Ceremony in London McCann FitzGerald was today (25 March 2004) named as the Irish Law Firm of the Year by the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) at its prestigious annual awards ceremony in London. Each year, the IFLR’s annual awards set

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announces a new signature project in conjunction with BellSouth, Atlanta Legal Aid and Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF): The Security Deposit Project. In this program, lawyers will represent low income tenants in seeking the return of deposits unlawfully withheld by landlords. “Low income tenants, many of whom scrape together a month’s worth

Financial News Awards for Corporate Excellence Europe 2004 Sullivan + Cromwell LLP represents the underwriters. “Vivendi Universal’s $1.3bn (€1bn) dual currency bond was hailed as the deal that kick-started the European high-yield debt market in 2003. . . . The French media and entertainment group’s deal, which comprised dollar and euro tranches, marked its first

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP successfully represented Earth Resource Mapping, Inc., an Australian company, in a patent dispute against LizardTech, Inc. before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The firm received the order on Thursday, March 18. Chief Judge Coughenour granted Earth Resource Mapping’s motions for summary judgment of invalidity

Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $22.5 million to resolve allegations that one of its facilities improperly billed Medicare for millions of dollars for referrals provided by doctors with whom the hospital had prohibited financial arrangements, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement also resolves the government’s allegations that the North