Law Admin

DETROIT (2 February 2004) – The law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., has re-elected John R. Cook and elected Michael W. Hartmann and Brad B. Arbuckle to serve two-year terms as managing directors. Michael W. Hartmann was elected to serve as chair of the managing directors. They join CEO Thomas W. Linn;

Cleary Gottlieb represented the underwriters, led by Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, in Research In Motion Ltd.’s $945 million registered offering of common stock. The underwriters exercised their over-allotment option in full on the first day of trading, and the offering and over-allotment closed today. RIM, maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, plans to use the

A former Lowell man was convicted yesterday by a federal trial jury of re-entering the United States after being deported. United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Robin Avers, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Custom Enforcement in Boston, announced today that RAFAEL GARCIA, a/k/a “Dario Deleon”, age 35, formerly of Lowell, Massachusetts, was

Morrison & Foerster has acted on behalf of EchoStar Communications Corporation, the U.S. satellite television company, in its strategic investment in Reality TV USA Limited. Reality TV USA Limited has been established by EchoStar and Zone Vision Enterprises, an international TV production company based in London, to launch the Reality TV USA channel in the

On 26 January, 2004 Duelguide (a company established by Elliott Bernerd and certain other investors for the purpose of making the offer) and the Independent Directors of Chelsfield announced a recommended offer by Duelguide to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Chelsfield, other than those Chelsfield shares which Duelguide has

Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited and Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. as joint global coordinators on a combined U.S. private placement and Regulation S offering of ¥194 billion ($1.8 billion) of common stock by NEC Corporation. This is the largest non-bank primary share offer since NTT DoCoMo’s in 2001.

On Thursday 22nd January 2004, Clifford Chance was awarded the prestigious “Global Law Firm of the Year” Award at Project Finance International’s Annual Awards Ceremony. Rodney Short, Paul Simpson, Bleddyn Phillips, Margaret Gossling, Malcolm Turner, Dan Reynell and Julian Nichol attended the event at the Dorchester Hotel in London and collected the award on behalf

Baker & McKenzie is pleased to announce that the BLCP Power Limited deal it has been working on in Thailand recently was named by Asiamoney as “Project Finance Deal of the Year for 2003”. The award relates to the US$1.3 billion project financing of a 1,400 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Rayong Province in

Charles F. Schill, an experienced international trade and patent litigator, has joined the international trade and investment and technology, Internet and media departments of Steptoe & Johnson LLP’s Washington office as a partner. He has nearly three decades of law firm and government practice experience in the areas of intellectual property and international trade. He

A Utah-based corporation that distributes a product called BioGevity – an oral spray product that used to contain human growth hormone (HGH) – was ordered today to pay a $500,000 criminal fine and to forfeit $1.25 million in profits. Neways, Inc., which is based in Salem, Utah, was ordered to forfeit the $1.25 million, which