LawFuel – US Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEVEN BYERS, the former President and Chief Executive Officer of private equity firm WexTrust Capital, LLC, and JOSEPH SHERESHEVSKY, a former principal and Chief Operating Officer of WexTrust Capital, LLC, were indicted today
Posted by Andrew Longstreth The Am Law Daily has learned that Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll name partner Michael Hausfeld will be striking out on his own. The reasons for his departure were unclear but on Friday he sent a brief e-mail to attorneys he had been working with indicating that he had been “expelled”
LawFuel – Legal Announcments – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Investigations, Harold Woodward, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Rear Admiral Steve Branham, Commander, U.S. Coast Guard, 7th District, announce
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DALLAS – Haynes and Boone, LLP has bolstered its bankruptcy and business reorganization practice by adding ten lawyers to the group over the last 20 months. “Our group is busy now, and we’re expecting a very active 2009,” said Steve Pezanosky, who heads the firm’s Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization Section. Most of the new lawyers
DALLAS (LAWFUEL) – Haynes and Boone, LLP has bolstered its bankruptcy and business reorganization practice by adding ten lawyers to the group over the last 20 months. “Our group is busy now, and we’re expecting a very active 2009,” said Steve Pezanosky, who heads the firm’s Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization Section. Most of the new
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — Roy Jacobs & Associates announces that it is investigating possible securities law violations by McDermott International Inc. (NYSE:MDR) (“McDermott” or the “Company”) as a result of the announcement of markedly reduced third quarter earnings, which included a $90 million charge at the gross-margin level on three large on-going
Hong Kong (LAWFUEL) – DLA Piper today announced it has won the Deal Achievement Award of the Year at the Asia M&A Atlas Awards 2008 for advising Heckmann Corporation (Heckmann) on the US$625 million acquisition of China Water and Drinks Inc. (China Water). Originally signed up in April 2008, the deal was successfully completed on
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Growth at the 250 largest law firms in the country receded this year, likely a reflection of the economic downturn of 2008. The results of the 2008 NLJ 250, The National Law Journal’s 31st annual survey of the nation’s largest law firms, show that they added 4.3 percent more attorneys this year, compared with 5.6
LawFuel – Solicitors Jobs Board & NZ Legal News – An intellectual with a solid law background and an ambition to achieve his dream for shaping New Zealand law Chris Finlayson, the likely next Attorney General under the new Key Government, has risen rapidly through the National Party ranks and will likely place a significant
When Barack Obama becomes president in January, he will confront the controversial legal legacy of the Bush administration. From expansive executive privilege to hard-line tactics in the war on terrorism, Obama must decide what he’ll undo and what he’ll embrace. The stakes couldn’t be higher. On one hand, civil libertarians and other critics of the
