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 […]

22 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Herbert Smith recently advised The Tata Power Company Limited (Tata Power), India’s largest private sector power company, on raising $200 million through a five-year foreign currency convertible bond issue, carrying a 1% coupon. The deal was negotiated and signed on an accelerated basis (30

Former Washington Congresswoman Joins Firm’s Government Affairs Practice, Adding Tax and International Trade Experience to Formidable Group (Washington, DC and Seattle, Wash.) March 22, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP has announced that Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn, who retired from Washington’s 8th Congressional District in January,

21 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr recently secured a legally and politically important victory for the City of Cambridge in Middlesex Superior Court. In 1998, Malvina Monteiro, the Executive Secretary of the City’s Police Review and Advisory Board, filed a Complaint alleging race and

Boston – 21 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that J. Mark Waxman, president and general counsel of CareGroup, Inc. in Boston will rejoin the Firm as a partner in the Health Law Department. Mr. Waxman, 55, will be resident in the Firm’s Boston office

21 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Herbert Smith has advised Consensus Business Group, the property company owed by Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, on a £366 million sale and leaseback joint venture with Tesco. The deal involved Tesco contributing 12 of its stores and two large distribution centres to a Jersey

Detroit, MI – March 21, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Kay Standridge Kress, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, an honorary professional and educational association of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals. Ms. Kress was inducted into the College at a ceremony

21 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Skadden is representing Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. as a financial advisor to Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation in its merger with Inamed Corporation. The deal is reportedly valued at approximately $2.8 billion.

NEW YORK — March, 21, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP today announced that Christopher Owen, 42, has joined the Firm as a partner in both Chadbourne & Parke LLP and its affiliated multinational partnership, Chadbourne & Parke in London, effective March 15. He will split his time

21 March 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Global law firm Clifford Chance scooped six prestigious awards, including International Law Firm of the Year, at the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asian Awards Ceremony at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Hong Kong on 10 March 2005. Now in its seventh year, the