March 19, 2008 (Otto Smyth) Tuesday afternoon on Highway 154 in the vicinity of Santa Ynez is where an accident took place between a car and motorcycle crash that ended with two fatalities. According to the California Highway Patrol the accident occurred when a vehicle struck a motorcycle head on near the intersection of Alamo […]

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LONDON – Allen & Overy LLP today announced that it has advised Misys plc on the proposed merger of its wholly owned division Misys Healthcare with Allscripts to form Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. (Allscripts-Misys), and create a leader in the provision of clinical software and services for the US ambulatory healthcare market. The transaction is

LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, March 19, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Today Loeb & Loeb LLP announced the launch of a new practice group, the Emerging Media and Technology Practice Group, which has been formed to serve new media and technology clients and traditional media clients entering the space. The national team will be comprised

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the filing of a settled civil injunctive action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Ralph Gregory Gibbs, a resident of New Haven, West Virginia, who operated an offering fraud and “Ponzi” scheme. The Complaint alleges that since at least April 2005

March 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Chadbourne & Parke LLP was honored by The Hedge Fund Journal as an advisor to the publication’s Deal of the Year: the $3.4 billion GLG Partners/Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. transaction. Chadbourne represented GLG, a leading alternative asset manager with net assets under management of over $24 billion, in the

Washington, D.C., March 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled securities fraud charges against W.P. Carey & Co., a manager of real estate investment trusts (REITs), and two of W.P. Carey’s senior executives for paying undisclosed compensation to a brokerage firm that sold the REITs to investors. W.P. Carey

March 18, 2008 (Mountain View, CA) – Fenwick & West LLP represented ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARST) in its initial public offering. ArcSight, based in Cupertino, CA, is a leading provider of security and compliance management solutions. The offering, which is the only high technology IPO completed thus far in 2008, raised approximately $62 million for

LAWFUEL – Paris – DLA Piper has appointed David Duchosal as of counsel in its Finance and Projects practice group in France. His appointment will further support the growth of the Paris office, which has seen nine new partners join since November 2007, including Finance and Projects partners Véronique Collin and Clotilde Dirnat. David specialises

LAWFULE – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TIMOTHY KHAN pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges that he defrauded a victim of $7 million in connection with the fraudulent sale of $7 million in purported options to purchase the stock of designer