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Kaye Scholer – Canadian Equity Firm Signs Deal The Warranty Group for $1.5 Billion

Law Firms / March 30, 2014

LawFuel.com – Canadian private equity firm Onex Corporation (TSX; OCX) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell The Warranty Group, Inc., a leading global provider of warranty solutions and related programs, to private equity firm TPG for an enterprise value of approximately $1.5 billion. Kaye Scholer is advising long-term client Onex […]

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An Overview of EU Law on Criminal Sanctions

Briefing / March 30, 2014

This article discusses the possible criminalisation of EU competition law, and compares the EU regime to the national competition regimes of individual EU Member States. It is, perhaps, time to take stock of the issue of ’criminal antitrust’ in the EU. In recent years there has been a greater focus on the criminalisation of competition

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Pedestrian Fatalities Decline, But Drivers Must Remain Alert Says Ohio Personal Injury Attorney

Reversing a longtime trend, the number of pedestrian fatalities declined nationwide in 2013 for the first time since 2009, including a 37 percent decrease in Ohio pedestrian fatalities, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Columbus personal injury lawyer Scott Elliot Smith of the Law Offices of Scott Elliot Smith said while the news

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One Colorado Lawyer / Politician Who “Doesn’t Get” the Marjijuana Law Change

Law Firms, Lawyers / March 30, 2014

Martha Ezzard has been a lawyer, journalist and politician. Now she’s a wine maker, among other things. As former aide to Gov. John Love she also ran for the US Senate and in an interview with the Colorado Stateman, Ms Ezzard expressed her vehement disbelief in the legalization of marijuana in her home state. She

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Christie Lawyer Points Finger at Deputy and Clears Christie

Featured, US Law / March 29, 2014

Law firm Gibson Dunn’s 360 page report into New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal has been labelled a white wash by Christie’s critics. The report, by Gibson Dunn lawyer Randy Mastro said Governor Christie, also a Republican presidential contender, “had no involvement in the decision to close these lanes and no prior kowledge

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Hostile Takeover Lawyer Goes Hostile on Icahn and Others

Featured, LawStars, Lawyers / March 29, 2014

M&A lawyer Martin Lipton invented the poison pill and wrote one of the key books about takeover law. He is also a founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz the takeover specialists and so when he goes on the attack against an activist investor like Carl Icahn people tend to

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Scalia, the NSA and the Fourth Amendment

Featured, US Law / March 29, 2014

The issue of computer data and the effect of the Fourth Amendment was somethat that was of high interest to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when questioned by a Brooklyn Law School group. The Justice received some probing questions, which could wind up having significant repercussions for the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs. The question came

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Hostile M&A: Special Compensation Arrangements with Dissident Director Nominees

Briefing, Law Firms / March 29, 2014

Morrison & Foerster’s “Unsolicited Views” letter By Ted Powers and Jeffery Bell Certain activist shareholders involved in proxy contests have offered special compensation (e.g., a fee for agreeing to be nominated on the activist’s slate or performance-related bonuses after election) to their director nominees. Activists state a desire to compensate nominees who commit time and

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This Law Expert Believes Fire Caused MH370’s Disappearance

Featured / March 28, 2014

A ‘blow torch’ fire could have caused the disappearance and crashing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, according to a theory put forward by London aviation law expert James Healy-Pratt who is himself a pilot. Such a fire ripped through the cockpit of a Boeing 777 in Egypt three years ago. Healy-Pratt is with aviation law

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Better Law Firm Design Means Better Law Firm Marketing

Featured, Law Marketing / March 28, 2014

How should law firms be interacting with clients properly? Among the trends towards better law firm marketing and interaction and lawyers who are setting up cafes, movable walls and more glass, according to the latest in law firm design trends. A global architecture and design firm expert, Bert Oliva, principal at Gensler, has a division

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