Clyde & Co LLP has announced the addition of two new Middle East based partners; Peter Hodgins in the area of Islamic Insurance (Takaful) within Clyde & Co’s Financial Services group and Scott Aitken as an Abu Dhabi Real Estate partner*. (LAWFUEL) – Clyde & Co is one of the major international law firms in
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Jonathan Blackman, one of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s most experienced litigation partners, has relocated to the London office from New York, continuing the growth of the firm’s London dispute resolution practice and enhancing the existing reputation of its European litigation and arbitration team. Mr. Blackman’s practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration, securities law,
13.March 2009 For immediate release Zurich, Switzerland; March 13, 2009 – The world’s leading alternative supplier of aseptic packaging materials to Tetra PakTM filling machines announced the establishment of its European headquarters in the Swiss city of Winterthur, Greater Zurich Area, earlier this week. Over the past 5 years Tralin Pak has expanded from servicing
LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Newswire CHICAGO – March 13, 2009 – Loeb & Loeb’s Raymond A. Sanseverino, Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Department represented Willis of Illinois, Inc., a subsidiary of Willis Group Holdings, in its lease of more than 140,000 square feet on multiple floors of the Sears Tower, the iconic 110-story skyscraper located
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today took further action to help increase the transparency of credit default swaps by approving conditional exemptions that will allow the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) to operate as a central counterparty for clearing them. These conditional exemptions, based on a request by
LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Newswire – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and RONALD J. VERROCHIO, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced that OLEKSANDR VEROVKIN, 50, of Brooklyn, New York, was arrested last evening at JFK Airport by
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The Obama administration on Friday said it was abandoning the use in court proceedings of the Bush administration’s term “enemy combatant” as it argues for the continued detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, symbolically separating itself from Bush detention policies. But in a filing in federal court, the Justice Department argued that the president
DENVER (LAWFUEL) – A federal grand jury in Denver late Wednesday returned a one count indictment charging David Charles Barton, age 27, of Boulder, Colorado, with telephoning a bomb threat to Buckley Air Force Base, Acting U.S. Attorney David Gaouette and Denver FBI Special Agent in Charge James Davis announced. Barton was arrested without incident
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WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — In an effort to improve its communications with taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service will eliminate the nearly dozen inserts that go into a notice informing businesses that they owe additional tax. The change to the CP 161 notice, which is mailed to business taxpayers who underpay their taxes, is part of an
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WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) – A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Tucson, Ariz., on federal civil rights charges related to an alleged assault on a detainee at a federal detention facility, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney for the District
