ATLANTA (March 23) – Georgia’s new brand of Southern Democrat, Shyam Reddy, announced today his candidacy for Georgia Secretary of State. Born, raised and educated in Georgia, Dublin-native Shyam Reddy enters the race with a fiscally conservative, socially responsible upbringing that fostered in him a duty to be in public service. As a first generation […]

23 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy has advised Barclays Capital/Barclays Bank PLC on its first conduit loan CMBS transaction under the new ECLIPSE brand, in a £440,650,000 issue of commercial mortgage-backed notes by AQUILA (ECLIPSE 2005-1) plc, a special purpose vehicle (SPV). The ECLIPSE platform, recently announced

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A New York state teen-ager arrested last month for threatening to tell other spammers how to send waves of unsolicited messages to an online instant messaging service has pleaded guilty to making extortionate threats against the company. Anthony Greco, 18, of Cheektowaga, pleaded guilty

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Defendants Sold Thousands of Pounds of Chemicals With a Potential Maximum Yield of 44,000 Pounds of Methamphetamine With a Street Value of Over $390 Million The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced that David Conkey, 61 and Carol Conkey,

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (“DLA Piper”) has acted for Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) on the renewal of its flagship franchise to operate high speed intercity services on the East Coast Main Line. The award of the new 10 year franchise to GNER

New York, NY – (March 21, 2005) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP represented J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. as financial advisor to IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) in its agreement to acquire Ask Jeeves, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASKJ) for approximately $1.85 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, IAC will issue 1.2668

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Cravath represented IBM in its acquisition of Ascential Software Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise data integration software, for approximately $1.1 billion. The partners involved in this matter were Scott A. Barshay on corporate issues, Stephen L. Gordon on tax issues and Patricia Geoghegan

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; and David W. Bourne, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field Office, announced today the return by a grand jury sitting in Ft. Lauderdale of

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters advises leading pub retailer on major securitisation deal Linklaters has acted for Greene King, the leading pub retailer and brewer on the securitisation of a portion of Greene King’s managed and tenanted pub estate, listed on the Irish Stock Exchange. The deal created

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A man who continued to offer bogus investments in accounts receivable “factoring” after being ordered to stop by a federal judge pleaded guilty this morning to a series of fraud and money laundering charges in relation to a scheme that cumulatively collected a quarter