Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law news – Earlier today, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued its Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment (Statement 123R), which addresses the accounting for employee stock options. The Commission’s Chief Accountant, Donald T. Nicolaisen, issued the following comments […]

London, December 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – First with law news – Steptoe & Johnson LLP has added Todd Corey, a dual-qualified English solicitor and New York attorney, to its Insurance and International Dispute Resolution Groups in London, effective immediately. Mr. Corey originally worked as an attorney in private practice in New York, before moving

16 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – First with law news – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced that a federal grand jury in Oakland indicted Laurence Seidenfeld with four counts of bank fraud today. According to the indictment, Mr. Seidenfeld, 61, of San Ramon, executed a scheme to defraud

NEW YORK — Dec. 16, 2004 – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented the lenders’ committee of Transportation de Gas del Sur S.A. (TGS) in a US$1.02 billion debt restructuring that closed on Dec.15. TGS, Argentina’s largest transporter of natural gas and the operator of the southern Argentina natural gas pipeline

17 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law news – International law firm Norton Rose has advised on fund raisings undertaken by two AIM listed gold mining companies, Oxus Gold plc (“Oxus”) and Cluff Gold plc (“Cluff”). Both transactions were announced on 30 November 2004. Norton Rose acted for RBC Capital Markets, the sole

16 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law news – Allen & Overy has advised ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Citibank Global Markets Limited and ING Bank N.V. as joint lead managers on the €200,000,000 inaugural bond issue for MobilTel AD, the largest mobile telecom operator in Bulgaria. The bonds, governed by English law, were

Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law news – Donald T. Nicolaisen, Chief Accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission), issued the following statement regarding the compliance of the Federal National Mortgage Association’s (Fannie Mae) accounting practices for deferred purchase price adjustments and for derivatives and hedging activities with Statement

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 2004 – LAWFUEL – First for law news — Herbert S. Wander, a corporate governance and securities lawyer with Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman in Chicago, has been named by the Securities and Exchange Commission to co-chair a new SEC advisory committee. The new committee is charged with examining the impact of the

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 16 2004 – LAWFUEL – First with law news – A Williamstown man was convicted late yesterday in federal court of mail fraud, making false statements in relation to health care benefits, and obstruction of justice. United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Kenneth W. Kaiser, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal

Last week, Dennemeyer & Company hosted the inaugural meeting for the new European Corporate Advisory Board (CAB). This full day event highlighted the enhanced features of DIAMS-XE, the new web-based version of Dennemeyer’s IAM software system. The meeting took place at Procter & Gamble’s French headquarters in Paris. The CAB was created by Dennemeyer to