LawFuel.com – LEV L. DASSIN, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD”), announced that DANIEL LEDVEN, 37, of Cresskill, New […]

2 May 2009 – LawFuel.com – International Legal Newswire Service – Allen & Overy today announces 20 promotions to partner across 10 offices in 9 countries. The promotions, with effect from 1 May 2009, bring a record proportion of women into the partnership – 40 per cent of new partners are women – and, for

LawFuel.com – Legal Announcements – May 2009 A global team of Skadden attorneys represented Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) and its subsidiary Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in connection with its US$7.8 billion acquisition of Nikko Cordial Securities and related assets from Citigroup Inc. This transaction, announced on May 1, is significant for SMFG and

Toronto, Canada- GAO Research Inc. (www.GAOResearch.com) has released an updated version of its G.726 vocoder, which has been optimized for better performance.GAO’s G.726 vocoder complies with the ITU-T standard and operates at 40, 32, 24, and 16kbps. It is used in numerous applications such as speech transmission over digital networks, video conferencing, multimedia, and ISDN

Washington, D.C., May 1, 2009 – LawFuel.com – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the agenda and panelists for its May 5 roundtable to discuss short sale price tests and short sale circuit breakers. The roundtable will be held at the SEC’s headquarters at 100 F Street NE in Washington, D.C., and will begin

PHOENIX – LawFuel.com – Mercedes Howard, 29, of Sacaton, Ariz., was sentenced to 17 ½ years prison, by U.S. District Judge Frederick Martone on Wednesday, April 29. Howard had pleaded guilty on August 5, 2008 to Involuntary Manslaughter and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The facts showed that on September 17, 2007, Howard was

DENVER – LawFuel.com – A federal grand jury in Denver has returned a 55-count indictment charging 22 defendants with conspiracy and other drug trafficking crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Weld County Drug Task Force, and the Longmont Police Department announced today. Of the 22 indicted, 14 were arrested this

LawFuel.com – April 30 2009 Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated as the sole book-running manager on an SEC-registered follow-on offering by SandRidge Energy, Inc. of 17,480,000 shares of its common stock, of which 14,480,000 shares were sold by SandRidge and 3,000,000 shares were sold by a selling shareholder. The underwriters