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(LAWFUEL) – The Commerce Commission has received an application from ISS Holdings NZ Limited (ISS) seeking clearance to acquire a portion of the manned (static and mobile) guarding business of Chubb New Zealand Limited (Chubb). Static guarding is the stationing of a guard at a customer’s premises. Mobile guarding or patrol is the dispatch of

1 October 2008 – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – Our energy team recently advised Centrica plc on the acquisition of Caythorpe Gas Storage Limited (CGSL) from Warwick Energy for £70 million in cash. CGSL owns the onshore Caythorpe gas producing field near Bridlington in East Yorkshire, which is a substantially depleted onshore gas field located

LawFuel – Legal Announcement Service – DLA Piper has appointed Maricla Pennesi as partner in its Italian Tax practice. Maricla joins DLA Piper from Deloitte, where she was a partner. Maricla has over 19 years’ experience in domestic and international tax, including restructuring and business planning, transfer pricing issues, M&As, due diligence and tax planning

Los Angeles, California – LawFuel Legal Announcement Service – On September 29, 2008, United States District Judge Christina A. Snyder sentenced a Los Angeles woman to 14 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for filing over 100 false federal income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. In addition to

LawFuel Legal Jobs Online – Here’s an inhouse counsel role – Reporting to the General Counsel, you will work closely with business groups within the company (including our overseas offices) and external legal counsel, providing legal advice to assist in the day-to-day running of the company. You will also assist in providing legal advice on

Former Zappos GC, Steve Gasser to Help Develop Silicon Valley Base in E-Commerce and New Media For more information, contact Brad Wise, newsPRos, 415-659-5669 (October 1, 2008, San Francisco, CA) – Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, continues its West Coast expansion with the addition of another high-profile

LawFuel – A federal grand jury in Santa Ana today indicted former congressional candidate Tan Nguyen on a federal obstruction of justice charge, announced Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Thomas P. O’Brien, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. The indictment alleges that Nguyen made misleading

More Than 100 Leading Women Executives Shoot it Out at Kramer Levin’s Women’s Billiards Night New York, October 1, 2008 – LawFuel – Legal Announcements – More than 100 prominent female business executives and lawyers gathered for Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP’s Women’s Billiards Night at Slate Plus in New York City on September

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Shawn Michael Cole, 40, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was sentenced here yesterday to seven years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton. Cole pleaded guilty on May 20, 2008 to Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Abusive Sexual Contact. Both crimes were committed aboard an aircraft. At the completion of