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March 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Chadbourne & Parke LLP was honored by The Hedge Fund Journal as an advisor to the publication’s Deal of the Year: the $3.4 billion GLG Partners/Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. transaction. Chadbourne represented GLG, a leading alternative asset manager with net assets under management of over $24 billion, in the

Washington, D.C., March 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled securities fraud charges against W.P. Carey & Co., a manager of real estate investment trusts (REITs), and two of W.P. Carey’s senior executives for paying undisclosed compensation to a brokerage firm that sold the REITs to investors. W.P. Carey

March 18, 2008 (Mountain View, CA) – Fenwick & West LLP represented ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARST) in its initial public offering. ArcSight, based in Cupertino, CA, is a leading provider of security and compliance management solutions. The offering, which is the only high technology IPO completed thus far in 2008, raised approximately $62 million for

LAWFUEL – Paris – DLA Piper has appointed David Duchosal as of counsel in its Finance and Projects practice group in France. His appointment will further support the growth of the Paris office, which has seen nine new partners join since November 2007, including Finance and Projects partners Véronique Collin and Clotilde Dirnat. David specialises

LAWFULE – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TIMOTHY KHAN pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges that he defrauded a victim of $7 million in connection with the fraudulent sale of $7 million in purported options to purchase the stock of designer

LAWFUEL – A Palm Springs man who traded images of child pornography and who had more than 600 images and movies on his home computer was sentenced today to the statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Kevin Phillips, 51, was sentenced today in Riverside federal court by United States District Judge Virginia

LAWFUEL – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and PATRICIA J. HAYNES, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), Criminal Investigation Division, announced the filing of an Indictment today charging former KPMG partner ROBERT PFAFF with participating in a

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Adds Emerging Company Corporate Partner Bill Bromfield March 17, 2008 (Seattle, WA) – LAWFUEL – Fenwick & West LLP, a leading technology and life sciences law firm with offices in Seattle, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Boise, announced today that Seattle-based emerging company corporate lawyer Bill Bromfield has joined the firm as a corporate partner.

A former player with the Tennessee Titans was arrested this morning for allegedly defrauding at least one victim by falsely promising to secure funding for a construction project in Mexico and spending the victim’s “deposit.” Reed Kyle Diehl, 29, of Coto de Caza, was arrested without incident this morning by special agents of the Federal