SAN FRANCISCO, 18 August 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Elizabeth Lefever has joined the firm as of counsel in the firm’s corporate department, resident in the San Francisco office. Lefever, previously of counsel in the San Francisco office of […]

18 August 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL Today the Commission is considering whether to adopt amendments to Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 that would prohibit mutual fund advisers from directing fund portfolio brokerage transactions to broker-dealers in order to compensate them for promoting the

18 August 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL The international legal practice of Allen & Overy advised Citigroup Global Markets as Lead Arranger on the first capital market issue by the German Land of Saxony-Anhalt to comply with the requirements of Islamic law. With an overall volume of approximately

NEW YORK, August 18, 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL-Irwin H. Warren, a partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, and co-head of the firm’s Business and Securities Litigation practice, has been elected to the Council of the Section of Litigation of

Beijing – 18 August 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & announcements at LAWFUEL – Global law firm Clifford Chance is advising AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition of the IT services business of Hong Kong-listed Lenovo Group Limited in an all stock deal valued at US$36.6 million. AsiaInfo was the first Chinese

17 August 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL Clifford Chance strengthens its Singapore Capital Markets Practice International law firm Clifford Chance announces that Joan Janssen has joined the firm’s Singapore office, as a Counsel with the Capital Markets Group, effective 10 August. Joan was most recently a senior associate

17 August 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Brian Wimpling, Special Agent-in-Charge, of the Internal Revenue Service; and Michael P. Driscoll, Special Agent Supervisor, of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, announced that yesterday, defendant, Roberto Rego,

12 August, 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL £31m AIM flotation for Nipson Digital Printing Systems plc Lawrence Graham has advised Teather & Greenwood, nominated adviser and broker to Nipson Digital Printing Systems Plc (“Nipson”), in connection with Nipson’s Admission and Placing on the Alternative Investment Market. Trading in

12 August 2004 – Cravath has been voted the most prestigious US law firm by partners in The Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms. The survey results, published as part of Vaults 2005 guide to the legal profession, reflect the votes of 680 partners from the US top 100 law firms. Partners at

LANSING, Mich., Aug. 12, 2004 Legal news, law news, law firm news & research at LAWFUEL Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced today the arrest of a Kentwood, Mich., artificial intelligence computer software programmer who used the Internet to arrange two sexual encounters with a 14-year-old female persona who was actually an Attorney General investigator.