Chapman Tripp – Auckland is now ranked the ninth least affordable major city in the world on the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, with median house prices sitting at around eight times median income. The potential implications of this at both the human and the national level are serious. The effect on the banking […]
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Angelina Jolie’s recent surgery to have ovaries removed was accompanied by news that she had snubbed Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney. The reported snub in OK magazine was hardly detailed and simply made mention of the alleged snub notwithstanding the friendship between Mr Clooney and Jolie’s husband Brad
It’s an age of the ‘startup’, the transformational, entrepreneurial success story (we hope) company that lawyers an help develop into the potential the investors see in their Big Idea. But what can lawyers do to actually help startups? So let’s say you have signed a letter of intent to help the startup and you want
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LONDON – LawFuel.com – Allen & Overy has advised Etihad Airways, the UAE’s national carrier, on an innovative and ground breaking transaction which has seen Korean financial institutions provide a 15 year 100% financing for Etihad’s second new Airbus A380 aircraft. With no other bank debt support, it is the first pre-funded 100% financing by
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Skadden Arps – Global M&A activity jumped in 2014, with over 40,000 tracked transactions totaling approximately $3.5 trillion in value.1 This represents the biggest year for M&A since 2007, the last year before the impact of the global financial crisis was fully felt. Favorable conditions, such as higher stock price levels, abundant cash resources and
LOS ANGELES – The daughter of a Mexican Mafia member who acted as the conduit between her father and South Los Angeles street gangs he controlled from state prison was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison on racketeering charges. Vianna Roman, 39, of South Los Angeles, received a 180-month prison term from United
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President Barack Obama accused Senate Republicans of holding his attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch “hostage”, saying it is inexcusable to use her in order to bargain for separate legislation. The Lynch nomination has been languishing for over 130 days and Republicans created another problem for the nomination this week by saying she would not get
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Martin Schweiger of Schweiger & Partners is a German patent lawyer who moved to Singapore literally hours before the 9/11 attacks were launched. He searched over 30 countries before deciding to settle in Sinapore where he established the Asian branch of his patent law firm. But Mr Schweiger is more than just a patent lawyer,
Skadden advised Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. and its majority owner Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in securing antitrust approval from the U.S. Department of Justice for Ainsworth’s $667 million merger with Norbord Inc.
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The debacle encircling the BBC over the television “Top Gear” fracas involving Jeremy Clarkson has seen the lawyers enter the fray and Clarkson launching an expletive laden tirade against the corporation for destroying the top-rating show. Clarkson has hired major law firm Olswang and senior partner Mark Devereaux to represeent him at the BBC inquiry,
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