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The national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L) is pleased to announce that Anthony H. Handal, founding partner of Handal & Morofsky, joins K&L as a partner in the New York office. He is joined at K&L by an associate and a patent agent from that firm. Handal has over 30 years of

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is one of Canada’s best employers, according to the national magazine, Maclean’s. In its October 20th issue, Maclean’s lists Canada’s Top 100 Employers as determined by Mediacorp Canada Inc., a publisher that specializes in employment-related issues. The list includes not-for-profit groups, government agencies and private sector companies. Blakes is the

On 3 October 2003, the Australian Government announced the establishment of a working party to consider whether appropriate criminal offences for cartel behaviour can be introduced into Australian competition law. This followed the Australian Government’s announcement, in April 2003, in principle acceptance of the Dawson Committee’s recommendations to increase civil penalties for contraventions of Australian

Holman Fenwick & Willan represented PT Bumi Resources Tbk (Bumi) on its acquisition of PT Kaltim Prima Coal, (KPC) one of Indonesia’s largest coal mining companies and one of the biggest coal exporters in the world. Bumi purchased all of the shares of KPC from Rio Tinto Plc and BP Plc for US$500 million. The

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP represented Finisar Corporation in its offering, under Rule 144A, of $150 million in convertible subordinated notes to institutional purchasers, which closed today. The team of attorneys from Gray Cary representing Finisar was led by Dennis Sullivan, along with corporate and securities attorneys, Joe Sorenson, Craig Tighe and Ben Griebe,

Barrington Henderson, the lead singer of the Temptations for more than 5 years, filed suit today against the group, Motown, group founder Otis Williams and others alleging that they have failed to pay him royalties for both a platinum Temptations album and a Grammy(R)- winning album. The lawsuit also alleges that the Temptations continue to

Marsha E. Simms and Deryck A. Palmer, partners with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP were named among an elite group of America’s leading lawyers in the November issue of Black Enterprise. The magazine consulted America’s premier law schools and legal scholars as well as the country’s major legal organizations to create their first list of

Legislators should not be forced into a knee-jerk reaction of making internet sites liable for comments on chatrooms and message boards in the wake of the speculation regarding the names of eight footballers accused of rape, warns Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), the leading media and defamation firm. Comments Les Christy, media expert at RPC, “Currently,

Amersham, the UK imaging and biotechnology group, was advised by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in relation to a share for share offer, which will value the company at approximately £5.7bn. Freshfields is advising Amersham on the US securities law and US antitrust aspects of the transaction, as well as the UK/European legal and antitrust aspects. Completion

Linklaters has acted for Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity as a member of the Spirit private equity consortium on its £2.51 billion acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle Retail business, comprising of 1,400 pubs, restaurants and lodges. The other consortium members included Texas Pacific Group, Blackstone, CVC and other current Spirit shareholders. The transaction became public