LawFuel.com -International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised HKBN Ltd. (HKBN) and CVC Capital Partners (CVC) on HKBN’s US$750m IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HKBN is the parent company of Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, the largest provider of residential fibre broadband services in Hong Kong by number of residential subscriptions. On
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The growth in cyber attacks upon companies, highlighted by the problems Sony Pictures recently experienced, has also heightened the need for more education about what companies need to do in order to keep themselves ‘cyberattack-safe’. Australian law firm Wootton & Kearney has indicated that 2015 could provide a boom year for hackers and those who
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Nicholas Brendon is in trouble again having been arrested in Florida on charges of criminal mischief and property damage after attending an ALT*Con festival. Evidently Brendon was in a “state of confusion” and drunk. A hotel attendant reportedly noticed his dishevelled state, including toothpaste over his face, torn pants and
Snell & Wilmer – Jennifer R Phillips – Same-sex spousal rights, particularly in the area of employment law, are in a state of flux. This conundrum will hopefully be resolved later this year when the U.S. Supreme Court issues a ruling on a collection of four cases concerning the power of the states to ban
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Are law firms refusing or failing to learn the lessons from the slowdown – particularly litigation firms which appear to have largely overlooked the changing marketplace and expectations from clients? The litigation slowdown has once again raised the prospect of more layoffs and restructuring, something the law profession is hardly wanting to repeat. Yet a
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Like many publications involved in the legal media, the Lawyer in the UK has been asking why so few women make to senior roles? Specifically, The Lawyer asked, why do they not make senior management roles, noting that only eight women hold senior roles in the UK’s top 50 law firms. The whole gender issue
Swedish prosecutors are to travel to Britain to question the holed-up WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over allegations of sexual assault. Assange has been taking refuge in London’s Ecuadorean Embassy since June 2012, denying police entry and also the allegation against him. The NY Times reports that Swedish officials had previously refused to conduct interviews in London.
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Mike Young is an internet law specialist and principal in MikeYoungLaw who assists entrepreneurs and internet companies. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), relying upon a 1934 law, just dumped 400 pages of regulatory crap on Internet businesses and users under the guise of “Net Neutrality.” Think of it of as Obamacare for the Internet.
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US Attorney Preet Bharara has announced the potential end of La Cosa Nostra with the guilty plea of former capo Daniel Pagano. The release from the US Attorney: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized
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