12 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, law firm news – Hong Kong – Shearman & Sterling LLP’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices have advised the underwriters, led by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., in the US$71.5 million initial public offering and NASDAQ listing of American depository shares of eLong, Inc. eLong, Inc. is a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 16, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, law firm news – Covington & Burling advised the NBC Television Affiliates Association on a joint venture agreement with NBC News Bureau, Inc., a subsidiary of NBC Universal, to create a jointly owned and operated all-weather digital broadcast network. The formed joint venture, announced today,

15 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney news – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; James K. Belz, Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service; and Michael S. Clemens, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today the November 12, 2004 arrest of defendant,

15 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Criminal law, law, legal 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 the last three (3) defendants convicted in the City of Miami Cops prosecution, Jorge Garcia, Jose

17 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney, criminal law news – Five men were indicted today in relation to a drug trafficking ring that imported marijuana into Southern California and distributed large quantities of the drug in Florida and New York. As part of the investigation, narcotics investigators seized more than 1,700 kilograms

17 November 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, criminal law, legal, attorney news – An Iranian media personality and a Van Nuys attorney are among four persons who were arrested over the weekend on federal charges in connection with a fraud scheme involving the filing of fraudulent employment visa applications on behalf of hundreds of foreign

TORONTO and CALGARY November 16, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, law firm, legal, attorney news – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, today announced that Edward Rowe will be joining Blakes as a Tax Partner in its Calgary office. “The Taxation Group in Calgary has been very busy,

Washington, D.C., Nov. 16, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, SEC, attorney news – The Commission announced today the appointments of Helene Glotzer, David Rosenfeld and Andrew M. Calamari as Associate Regional Directors in New York with responsibility to oversee and manage the Commission’s enforcement program in the Northeast Regional Office. These appointments fill vacancies

November 11, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney news – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is representing XL Capital in its role as financial guarantor in the $270 million multi-source financing of the Américo Vespucio Sur Toll Road, a 24 km electronically tolled urban toll road concession in Santiago, Chile. The project is being financed

NEW YORK–Nov. 15, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Law firm, legal, attorney news –The National Law Journal(R) reported today that the NLJ 250(R), the nation’s 250 largest law firms, eked out minimal growth last year. Attorney head count at these firms inched up by just 1.5%, compared with last year’s 1.6%–the lowest rate of increase since