SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 2004 – LAWFUEL – Litigation, legal, law firm news – The following is a statement by Daniel Tarman, Senior Vice President of Visa USA: “Visa will vigorously fight this lawsuit because American Express already got what it wanted from the court — the ability to issue its products through Visa members. […]

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law firm, legal, attorney, energy law news — Enhancing the strength of its diversified energy practice, Dewey Ballantine LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that David M. Perlman has joined the firm as a partner in the Energy Markets and Regulatory Group. He resides in

15 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law firm, attorney, legal news – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce the election of eight new partners, effective January 1, 2005. The new partners practice in the firm’s Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Orange County and Washington, D.C. offices. The new partners are: Robert C.

Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Credit Suisse First Boston LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. as joint book-running managers on a $63.25 million initial public offering of 5,750,000 shares of common stock of MarketAxess Holdings Inc. The shares are quoted on the Nasdaq National Market. Based in New York, MarketAxess operates one of the leading

15 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney news – A team led by partner Bill Cernius in the Orange County office and including lawyers from the London, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Hamburg and Northern Virginia offices, is handling one of the largest and most complex deals on behalf of Infonet

London, 15 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney, law firm news – Baker & McKenzie announced that it acted for McCormick & Company, Incorporated (‘McCormick’) in connection with the acquisition of the C.M. van Sillevoldt B.V (‘C.M. van Sillevoldt’) group for e58 million. McCormick is the global leader in the manufacture, marketing and

15 November 2005 – LAWFUEL – Securities, law, legal, law firm news – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; and Michael S. Clemens, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that a grand jury sitting in Miami, Florida has indicted defendant, Eduardo A. Portero, a former

WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 12 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, antitrust, litigation, legal news – Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in Utah seeking unspecified damages arising from Microsoft’s efforts to eliminate competition in the office productivity applications market during the time that Novell owned the WordPerfect word processing

14 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law firm, legal, attorney news – Full service law firm, DLA LLP has embarked on a major expansion of its contentious tax practice with the appointment of four new tax specialists. The new arrivals reinforce DLA’s national tax investigations practice and also allow the firm to expand its tax

MIAMI, FL 14 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – US Attorney, legal, litigation, law firm news – Attorney General John Ashcroft and United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Marcos Daniel Jiménez announced today that Optimus, Inc., a Miami-based gourmet company doing business as Marky’s Caviar and the International Food Emporium, pleaded guilty today