LawFuel – Legal Announcements – Skadden is advising Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD), in its US$1.9 billion (HK $14.9 billion) offer — with China Netcom — to privatize PCCW Limited, a Hong Kong-listed telecommunications company. PCRD is a Singapore-listed company and China Netcom is a PRC state-owned telecommunications company. Skadden also advised PCRD on the […]

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced today the conviction of SHAUN DOZIER, one of the leaders of an organization that sold crack cocaine in the Sedgwick Housing Project located in the Morris Heights

LawFuel.com – Attorney Announcements – Tax Elimination Strategy Allegedly Resulted in Loss to the Treasury Exceeding $100 Million JOHN B. OHLE III, a former member of the tax shelter promotion group at a national bank, has been charged with conspiring with lawyers at the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist (“Jenkens”) and others to defraud

November 14, 2008 (New York, NY) – International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP has named Mats G. Carlston and Michael P. Murphy as co-leaders of the firm’s global strategies initiative. Both Mr. Carlston and Mr. Murphy are partners in the firm’s New York City office. Mr. Carlston and Mr. Murphy will lead the firm’s strategic

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Juan Tapia-Quintero, 35, of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone to 230 months prison. Tapia-Quintero pleaded guilty on March 26, 2008 to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and five kilograms or more of cocaine, conspiracy to

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Warren Davis Trujillo, 21, of Coolidge, Ariz. was sentenced in federal court on November 10, 2008, to 55 months prison by U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver. Trujillo pleaded guilty on October 10, 2007 to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. In 2005, he was convicted of Kidnaping in Pinal

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 3-count indictment yesterday against Nancy Miller, 36, of Yuma, Ariz., for a violation of Mail Fraud. The indictment alleges that Miller, the Laboratory Director of Sunstate Environmental Laboratory in Yuma, falsified analyses of water samples and used the U.S. mail in furtherance of her

By John Bowie <a href= LawFuel.co.nz A Night At The Town Hall A night at the museum’s not necessarily something that conjures up images of great good times, but last Friday’s evening at Auckland Museum for the law awards was an appropriate venue, if somewhat hazardous given the free-flowing wine, for the 100 years since

LawFuel – Legal Newswire – South Africa’s most powerful corporate and commercial law firm specialising in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has been created with the merging of two of South Africa’s leading legal powerhouses, Gauteng-based Werksmans and Cape-based Jan S. de Villiers. Werksmans, a major player in M&As was recognised by both DealMakers and Ernst