(LAWFUEL) – Commerce Minister, Lianne Dalziel, has announced the formation of a Capital Market Development Taskforce”. Cathy Quinn, head of Minter Ellison Rudd Watts’ Mergers & Acquisitions practice, will join the task force headed by investment banker, Rob Cameron (Cameron & Co). Other members are Franceska Banga (NZVIF), Jonathan Ling (Fletcher Building), Rob McLeod (Ernst
(LAWFUEL) – For the first time the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will use youth-focused websites like MySpace and Facebook to promote its National Missing Persons Week advertising campaign. The campaign begins this week with a series of broadcast and print advertisements and will go online at various websites including MySpace, Facebook, bebo, ninemsn, Messenger and
NEW YORK, July 21, 2008 (LAWSUIT) — Roy Jacobs & Associates announces it has filed an action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of the common units of SemGroup Energy Partners, L.P. (“SGLP” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:SGLP) during the period from February 20, 2008
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – July 18, 2008 San Diego, CA – United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that Micah Bachman, also known as Tyler Jefferies, of Lake Forest, California, was sentenced today by the Honorable Dana M. Sabraw, United States District Judge in San Diego to serve 61 months in prison for bank fraud,
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The social networking site filed a lawsuit against German site StudiVZ.com July 18 that alleges copyright infringement. But Facebook’s most successful look-alike–and perhaps the ultimate target of its legal ire–could be China’s Xiaonei.com. Xiaonei closely mimics Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook’s blue and white design, and the site’s founder, Wang Xing, told Forbes.com in June that
New York, NY, July 21, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP announced today that the firm has been engaged as counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) as conservator of IndyMac Federal Bank, F.S.B., the newly formed federal savings bank that received substantially all of the assets of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., which
Hong Kong (LAWFUEL) – DLA Piper today announced the appointment of Tham Yuet-Ming as Consultant in the Litigation and Regulatory Group in the Hong Kong office. Ms Tham, who brings over 13 years of legal experience across Asia-Pacific advising companies in regulatory and compliance matters and government investigations, will spearhead initiatives to raise the risk
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(LAWFUEL) – ANZ Investment Services (New Zealand) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of ANZ National Bank Limited, has been fined $80,000 plus costs for running a misleading television campaign. ANZ Investments Services had pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act and was sentenced today in the Wellington District Court. The campaign
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(LAWFUEL) – A 59-year-old man from Carlton in Sydney will appear via videolink before Parramatta Local Court today after allegedly trying to smuggle more than 577 grams of cocaine through Sydney International Airport. After arriving on a flight from Santiago, Chile, yesterday morning (19 July 2008), the man was detained for a frisk search by
NEW YORK, July 18, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — The Brualdi Law Firm P.C. announces that a lawsuit has commenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri on behalf of purchasers of FCStone Group, Inc. (“FCStone” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq:FCSX) common stock during the period between April 10, 2008 and July 9,
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