Blake Dawson Waldron announced that ANZ Banking Group’s Deputy General Counsel, Peter Stirling, has returned to the firm in Melbourne. A top M&A lawyer and highly skilled commercial negotiator, Stirling will add a new dimension to the firm’s formidable national Corporate team. Prior to joining ANZ’s corporate strategy group in 1999, Stirling was a senior […]

Hollinger International – Acquisition of Telegraph Group On 23 June, 2004 Hollinger International, the Canadian media conglomerate, announced that UK media group Press Acquisitions Limited, which is owned by Hollyrood Holdings Limited, which in turn is controlled by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay (Barclay Brothers), has agreed to acquire Telegraph Group Limited for a

CHICAGO, June 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Absent 11th hour intervention from the United States Supreme Court or Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the State of Texas will go forward with the execution of inmate Mauro Barraza tomorrow night in Huntsville, Tex., despite the fact that the United States Supreme Court will decide next term whether

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions upholding the rule of law in the cases involving American-born detainee Yaser Esam Hamdi and the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: “The Supreme Court’s decisions in the Hamdi case and the case

CHICAGO, June 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The American Bar Association is pleased that the Supreme Court’s decision in Rumsfeld v. Hamdi reaffirms a principle that has been a bedrock of our democracy: that U.S. citizens deprived of their liberty are entitled to contest the basis of their detentions in a court of law, and

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP today announced the addition of Stephen Inman and J. Calvin Cunningham, III to the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Cunningham received his B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy, with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996; his MSc in Public Administration and Public Policy from the London

Did U.S. anti-doping officials inch closer last week to charging sprinter Marion Jones with drug violations? Jones, who has never failed a drug test and maintains that she’s never used banned substances, is under the U.S. Anti- Doping Agency’s watch for her implication in the BALCO steroids case — but has not been notified of

June 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Prosecutors are struggling to make their case against Scott Peterson. Last week a juror was dismissed after admitting he discussed media coverage of the trial with his girlfriend and lashed prosecutors for “not showing anything” to prove Peterson’s guilt in the murder of his wife. “I really wanted to

Washington, D.C., June 25, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The Commission announced that a Massachusetts federal court has entered a final judgment against Guillermo Garcia Simon, a former FleetBoston Financial Group employee residing in Buenes Aires, Argentina, in connection with his trading in the securities of FleetBoston in advance of the announcement of its acquisition by

25 June 2004 – LAWFUEL – Dibb Lupton Alsop has advised Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China Limited, (“Ping An”) on its US$1.84 billion equity raising from listing its H shares on 24 June 2004 on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. This is the largest IPO in Hong Kong