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Visteon to Sell Halla Visteon Climate Control to Hahn & Co. and Hankook Tire

Skadden

Skadden is advising Visteon Corporation in its agreement to sell its approximately 70 percent ownership interest in Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp., a publicly traded company on the Korean Stock Exchange, for $3.6 billion to an affiliate of Hahn & Company — a South Korea-based private equity company — and Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. The […]

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Sony Hack Lawsuits Now Four

Sony hack

Sony Pictures is now facing four lawsuits from former employees over the headline-grabbing crisis of its massive cyberattack  mounted allegedly by North Korean hackers. CNN rfeports that the suits alleged Sony was negligent because it didn’t prepare for a massive cyberattack despite warnings and previous security breaches. The two other suits were filed but were

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MoFo Advises GLP in $8.1 Billion U.S. Co-Investment

SINGAPORE (December 8, 2014) – Morrison & Foerster is advising Global Logistic Properties Limited (GLP), the leading provider of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil, in a co-investment with an affiliate of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. Ltd. to buy one of the largest logistics real estate portfolios in the United States from

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Former NYS Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Consultant Jailed for Tax & Fraud Convictions

  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MELVIN LOWE, a former consultant to the New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (“DSCC”), was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for conspiring with New York State Senator John Sampson to defraud the DSCC of $100,000, and

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Man Prosecuted for Intimidating Witness and Stalking

Witness

Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced today the arrest of KRIS SERGENTAKIS for retaliating against a witness and stalking.  The Complaint alleges that SERGENTAKIS has engaged in a scheme to

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Massive Venezuelan Banking Bribes Result in Guilty Pleas

Bribery

Senior Venezuelan Banking Official Received at Least $5 Million in Bribes in Exchange for Directing Business to U.S. Defendants   Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the guilty

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Former University Professor Gets Five Years for Sex with Minor

  WASHINGTON – A former university professor was sentenced today to five years in prison for traveling in foreign commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.   Walter Lee Williams, 66, of Palm Springs, California, was charged with engaging in

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