Washington, D.C. (April 24, 2009) – Sidley Austin LLP has announced that David R. Hill, former General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), will join the firm as a partner and co-head of Sidley’s global energy practice, resident in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Hill will also play a leading role in Sidley’s
(LAWFUEL) – A 44-year-old Stirling man will appear in Perth Magistrates court today charged by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) with failure to declare excess currency. On 23 December 2008, Customs and Border Protection officers at Perth Airport found over $187,000 concealed in the man’s luggage. The AFP seized the undeclared currency and charged the
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WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — Plug-in electric vehicles using certain types of batteries may qualify for a new tax credit if purchased this year, the Internal Revenue Service said today. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created two new tax credits for various types of
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WASHINGTON, April 24, 2009 (LAWFUEL) — Finkelstein Thompson LLP is currently investigating possible shareholder claims relating to the acquisition of PepsiAmericas, Inc. (“PepsiAmericas”) (NYSE:PAS) by PepsiCo, Inc. for $23.27 per share consisting of $11.64 cash plus 0.223 share of PepsiCo Inc. The investigation is focused on the potential unfairness of the price and the process
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WASHINGTON, April 24, 2009 (LAWFUEL) — Finkelstein Thompson LLP is currently investigating possible shareholder claims relating to the acquisition of Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (“Pepsi Bottling”) (NYSE:PBG) by PepsiCo, Inc. for $29.50 per share consisting of $14.75 in cash plus 0.283 share of PepsiCo common stock of PepsiCo Inc. The investigation is focused on the
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New York – April 24, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising HarbourVest Partners, LLC in connection with the formation of Dover Street VII L.P., a $2.9 billion global secondary fund. Dover VII makes secondary investments in venture capital, leveraged buyout, and other private equity assets, as well as portfolios of operating companies.
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DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Eric Richfield Majors, age 39, formerly of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pled guilty on April 17, 2009, before U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Acting United States Attorney David Gaouette, Special Agent in Charge of
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Washington, D.C., April 24, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a roundtable on May 5 beginning at 10 a.m. ET to further discuss whether short sale price test restrictions or short sale circuit breakers should be adopted. The Commission voted unanimously on April 8 to propose two approaches to restrictions on
When a Swedish court ruled last week that the four people behind the Pirate Bay website were to be sentenced to a year in prison each and face a cumulative fine of €2.7 million, the reaction from the entertainment industry was one of glee, and media reports were all of a ridiculous “we’ve turned a
LawFuel – April 24 2009 Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising BearingPoint, Inc. in connection with its sale to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of a significant portion of its North American Commercial Services business and associated global development centers in China and India for $25 million. The transaction includes a sale of BearingPoint’s entire equity interest in
