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An Orange County man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bank fraud charges in connection with an Internet auction fraud scheme and a second plot to defraud a bank out of $400,000. Cole Bartiromo, 19, of Mission Viejo, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon before United States District Judge John F. Walter in Los Angeles. Bartiromo pleaded

Cleary Gottlieb is representing a consortium led by The Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s Corsair Fund in their sale of a controlling stake in KorAm Bank Co., Ltd. to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup Inc. The deal, signed today in Seoul, is valued at $2.71 billion and includes a

Steptoe & Johnson LLP has elected Roger E. Warin as the new Chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee and Douglas G. Green as the Committee’s Vice-Chair, effective March 1. They will succeed J.A. “Lon” Bouknight and Mike Kail in these positions of leadership. “We are pleased that Roger and Doug are taking over the reins

Skadden is representing North Fork Bancorporation, Inc. in its acquisition of GreenPoint Financial Corporation, a $23 billion bank holding company, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion. Upon completion, North Fork will have over $50 billion in assets and a market capitalization of almost $14 billion, and will become the largest regional bank

A Mission Hills man has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in an identity theft case in which he used credit card and other information stolen from customers of Six Flags Magic Mountain to make unauthorized purchases, Nicholas E. Dean, 24, a Pierce College student, was sentenced Wednesday by United States District Judge

Cravath represented Pfleiderer AG in the sale of its U.S. affiliate Newmark International, Inc. to Valmont Industries, Inc. for approximately $115 million (USD). Partners who worked on this matter included Mark I. Greene on corporate issues and Lewis R. Steinberg on tax issues. The deal was announced on February 24, 2004.

Herbert Smith has advised British Petroleum (BP) on the sale of its 2% stake in the equity share capital of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). The sale of around 1.8 billion ‘H’ shares in Sinopec was effected through an accelerated bookbuilt placing on public markets for HK$3.15 per share, raising a total of approximately

Global law firm Clifford Chance advised Trinitybrook plc, Apax and Permira on the GBP 699.1 million public-to-private acquisition of major UK womenswear chain New Look Group plc. Takeover vehicle Trinitybrook is a newly incorporated company owned by leading private equity houses Apax and Permira, and New Look company founder Tom Singh and family. Weymouth-based New

A man previously employed at the Walnut office of the Viewsonic Corporation was sentenced today to one year in prison for hacking into the company’s computer system and wiping out critical data, an act that shut down a computer server that was central to the company’s foreign operations. Andrew Garcia, a 39-year-old Montebello resident, was

UK law firm, Pinsents, has completed a wizard of a deal advising the management of Merlin Entertainments Group Limited, which operates the popular London Dungeon and Seal Life centre chain of attractions, on the £72.5 million secondary buyout of the business. Hermes Private Equity has bought out the interests of Apax Partners and JP Morgan