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Chadbourne & Parke LLP Represents ORBCOMM In $26 Million Equity Financing; Completes Turnaround of 1990s Tech High Flyer That Hit Rough Times Chadbourne & Parke LLP, helping put the finishing touches on the turnaround of global satellite telecommunications company ORBCOMM, represented the Dulles, Va.-based company in a $26 million equity financing involving SES Global S.A.,

An Inglewood woman who ran an environmental testing company and admitted falsifying hundreds of sampling and laboratory reports relating to environmental pollutants was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison. Regina Coleman, 41, was also ordered to pay $303,930 in restitution to victims of her scheme. Coleman, who pleaded guilty in December to three

Scott + Scott, LLC Represents Securities Purchasers in Yet Another Restatement Accounting Fraud Case Scott + Scott, LLC a law firm based in Connecticut with offices in Ohio and California, announces that it has filed a securities fraud action on behalf of purchasers of the securities, including the common stock traded in overseas markets and

A resident of Spain is scheduled to make his first court appearance this afternoon after being extradited to the United States to face a 10-count indictment that alleges he and a female confederate operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded approximately 150 victims out of $5.8 million. Ali A. Yawar, a 51-year-old citizen of Afghanistan, is

The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s seizure of Rush Limbaugh’s entire medical files using search warrants was a violation of state law and an effort at “Big Brother scrutiny” that will chill doctor-patient relations for all Floridians, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons said in a brief filed today in Florida’s Fourth District Court

Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that the firm recently advised a new management buy-in team, Codate Lighting Holdings Limited, on its £6.1 million acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Chadmere Limited, a holding company of Iluma Lighting Limited — the lighting design, distribution and manufacturing company. Under the agreement, an initial consideration of £6.1

On February 10, Simpson Thacher closed the initial public offering of 2.2 billion of common stock for its client, Assurant, Inc., a New York based insurance company that provides individual health, group dental and disability, homeowners and pre funded funeral insurance. Lawyers working on the transaction which began in July of 2002 were Gary Horowitz,

Nine defendants in total were charged in the indictment with conspiracy to commit alien smuggling for profit in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) and Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. If convicted, the defendants face a statutory maximum penalty of fifteen years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Marcos Daniel Jiménez,

Global pharmaceutical and chemical company Merck KGaA and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (CDR), a leading global private equity firm, have entered into a stock purchase agreement whereby a fund managed by CDR will buy 100 percent of Merck’s laboratory distribution business, VWR International, for US$1.68 billion. Coudert Brothers LLP is representing long-time client Merck

Kilpatrick Stockton announces today that it advised ISS Mediclean on the Newham General Hospital PFI Project in East London, which has now reached financial close. The scheme is part of the Equion plc contract worth £35 million, and includes the design and construction of two major extensions for the Hospital, providing a new Clinical Block