Singapore: LawFuel – Legal Newswire Service – Clifford Chance has advised Malaysia’s Lim Family on the sale of its stake in gaming and leisure operator Genting Singapore PLC, a transaction which raised some US$425 million. Genting Singapore, a Singapore listed subsidiary of the Genting Berhad group, operates and develops gaming and integrated leisure resorts in […]

LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire Service – WASHINGTON – Giancarlo Pertile was sentenced to prison for tax evasion yesterday afternoon, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz sentenced Pertile, the former owner of Art Marble Design Inc., in Moorpark, Calif., to 60 months in federal prison and ordered

May 30 2009 – LAWFUEL.COM – Monday will officially mark the beginning of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. Aside from the physical devastation hurricanes can cause, this season is also a time when con artists try to capitalize on the vulnerabilities of storm victims by price gouging on essential supplies such as food, water, ice,

Attorney Ryan C. Stottlemyer recently joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, one of California’s leading full-service law firms, as an associate in the firm’s Orange County office. While a member of Luce Forward’s real estate and environmental litigation practice group, Stottlemyer will also work with the firm’s commercial finance and insolvency practice. Stottlemyer’s move

LAWFUEL.COM – 28 May 2009: Osborne Clarke has appointed Indian qualified lawyer (‘non-practising’) Prashant Mara into a senior role to boost the firm’s increasing flow of inbound and outbound work between India and Europe. Prashant joins on 1 July 2009 from French law firm Cabinet Franklin where he ran their India desk. Based in the

WASHINGTON — LawFuel.com – The Internal Revenue Service today announced that interest rates for the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2009, will remain the same. The rates will be: * four (4) percent for overpayments [three (3) percent in the case of a corporation]; * four (4) percent for underpayments; * six (6) percent for

Washington, D.C., May 28, 2009 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 10 brokers with fraud for falsely marketing investments in derivatives of mortgage-backed securities as safe and suitable for retirees and others with conservative investment goals. The SEC alleges that the brokers enriched themselves with millions of dollars in commissions and salaries while

The legal jobs website LawFuel.co.nz has listed a new job for inhouse counsel with Telecom, New Zealand’s largest listed company. As the battle for 3G looms the fascinating possibilities of working with New Zealand’s innovative telco sector hold great attractions: See the inhouse counsel job at: <a href=Click Here For NZ Legal Corporate Law Job