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Debevoise Act on Acquisition of Traxys Group By The Carlyle Group and Louis Bacon

Law Firms /
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  New York – Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), together with affiliates of Louis M. Bacon, the founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management, LP, have agreed to acquire a majority interest in the Traxys Group, a physical metals and minerals commodity merchant, logistics and trading

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Islam = Terrorism. The Catastrophe of US Immigration Policy

US Law /
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       By Shah Peerally, Immigration Attorney and Author.  After living in the US for 25 years as a permanent resident citizen (having a green card), Egyptian native Tarek Hamdi, decides to apply for citizenship. However the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) postpone it due to the “Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program”  CAARP[1].

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Forget Old Law Firm Models – Try These New Ones Instead

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  Changing the traditional law firm model is something that is working with great success in Australia and the United Kingdom.  The United States is much slower to grapple with the issue of introducing outside investment into law firms, but new law firm models continue to arise. The story of non-lawyer investment in the United

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Woman Sheriff an Entrants to Florida Women’s Hall of Fame

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi and Florida Governor Rick Scott held the Women’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony today and announced that the following three outstanding Florida women have been inducted into the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame: Sheriff Susan Benton of Sebring, Louise Jones Gopher of Okeechobee, and the late Dottie Berger MacKinnon of

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Former Grant Thornton Partner Sentenced to 54 Months’ Prison for Stealing Nearly $4 Million

Law Firms /
investment fraud

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CRAIG B. HABER, a former partner of a global accounting firm, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 54 months in prison for stealing nearly $4 million in client payments intended for the accounting firm. HABER pled guilty in

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Kodak Agree to River Clean-Up

Briefings, Featured /
Kodak cleanup

Kodak Also to Pay for Liability at Superfund Sites in New York and New Jersey Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced today that the United States has entered into settlement agreements with EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

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Davis Polk Advise on China e-Commerce Investment Deal

Law Firms /
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  Davis Polk advised Temasek in connection with its affiliate’s investment in Series B preferred shares of TutorGroup Holding. Affiliates of Alibaba Group, the China-based e-commerce company, and Qiming Venture Partners, a China-based venture capital fund, also participated in this round of financing. The aggregate investment size for this Series B round was close to

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Sedgwick Lawyers Contribute Anti-Corruption Law Content

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LawFuel.com – Sedgwick Chudleigh’s Alex Potts and Chen Foley contributed a chapter on Bermuda Anti-Corruption Regulation law in the 2014 edition of Getting the Deal Through – Anti-Corruption Regulation 2014. The guide is a database of law and regulation in 60 practice areas and more than 150 jurisdictions containing concise explanations to the most important legal and

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