28 July 2004 Read today’s legal news, law firm announcements & legal articles at LAWFUELMarcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael D. Clemens, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Stephen M. Cutler, Director, Division of Enforcement, United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Washington, D.C.; Dave […]

28 July 2004 Read today’s legal news, law firm announcements & legal articles at LAWFUELAnthony Salz, co-senior partner of international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for a four-year term commencing on 1 August 2004. Commenting on the appointment, BBC Chairman Michael Grade said: ‘I greatly

28 July 2004 Read all today’s legal news, law firm announcement & legal research articles at LAWFUELMarcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael S. Clemens, Acting Special Agent in Charge, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Don Saxon, Commissioner, Office of Financial Regulation, State of Florida, announced

SAN DIEGO, July 29, 2004 Today’s legal news, law firm announcements & legal research in LAWFUEL– The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to end its investigation of the Royal Dutch Shell Group petroleum companies is short-sighted and disappointing because it does nothing to force the company to correct corporate governance flaws that allowed the

Chadbourne & Parke LLP Representing Rosneft on Sakhalin 5 Project; Shareholders and Operating Agreement Signed MOSCOW — July 29, 2004 — Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented OAO NK Rosneft (Rosneft), the Russian state-owned oil company, which recently signed a Shareholders and Operating Agreement with British Petroleum (BP) with respect to the Sakhalin 5 offshore oilfield

28 July 2004 All today’s legal news, law firm announcements, legal research at LAWFUEL Allen & Overy advised Whitbread PLC on the purchase of the Premier Lodge budget hotels business from The Spirit Group. The consideration was £505m for the Premier Lodge estate of 132 hotels and 9 pipeline sites and a further £31.2m for

28 July 2004 Read legal news, law firm press releases & legal research articles at LAWFUELHerbert Smith and US firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore have jointly advised ABF plc, the international food, ingredients and retail group, on its acquisition of the yeast, spices and herbs business of the Australian group Burns Philp and Co for

July 28, 2004 Read today’s legal news, law firm announcements & legal research at LAWFUELLITIGATION RELEASE NO. 18804 / July 28, 2004 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Drake Tempest, Civil Action No. 04-B-1547 (OES)(D.Co.) The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that on July 28, 2004, it filed a subpoena enforcement action in the U.S.

July 28, 2004 – Read legal news, law firm news and legal research at LAWFUELThe Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE:COO) and Ocular Sciences, Inc., (Nasdaq:OCLR) announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement for Cooper to acquire Ocular Sciences, Inc. in a merger for stock and cash having a value of approximately $1.2 billion. The

CHICAGO, July 28, 2004 Read all today’s legal news, law news releases & law research at LAWFUEL– Chicago-based law firm, Much Shelist announced today that a settlement has been reached with A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company (“Staley”), the last defendant in the high fructose corn syrup price fixing class action. Staley reached a settlement with the